Your highest Stableford points score?

[EIW1219]

As this is a thread about your highest points score and not your 3/4 times a year best score, all these high scores are perfectly legitimate providing you have a legitimate handicap.
Yes they may get their handicap cut because of their very good round and then be harder for them to reproduce this high scoring round. If it creeps up again over a few bad rounds and then they do a similar big score the next year what is wrong? People practise and try to play a good round and score the highest points possible every game. So now and again it all clicks.
I would say i'm at a stage now where I can occasionally play some real good stuff and I'm worried that I will really hammer a score card again like my 48 points recently. Maybe because I'm a long hitter I can on a good day get a look at a lot of birdie / eagle chances over someone who perhaps plods along and struggles to get the opportunities that a long hitter can?
The problem is that when its not accurate its generally further in the woods / water than the plodder!

It's the rules of stableford and handicap that you should be moaning about!

 

[garyinderry]

if you get 50 points then in reality you are probably playing off the wrong handicap. i've had a couple of +45 pointers but that was after being stuck on hcp 16 for a whole summer then things just clicking and put in consective 46 + 45pts scores in competition.

when i was first given my handicap which was 18, i wasnt getting 36 points for quite a wile. what irks me is people getting 28 and cleaning up all the comps for the first month of the season. i think everyone should start at 18 and go up if needed.my friend has said , an extra shot a hole is more than enough for any able bodied player. he plays off 21 frustratingly. if not then more practice is needed.

 

[sydney greenstreet]

I have never played stableford before.

 

[rosecott]

if you get 50 points then in reality you are probably playing off the wrong handicap. i've had a couple of +45 pointers

It is perfectly possible that your 45 pointers were nett differential of -9 (par 72, CSS 72).
It is perfectly possible that a 50 pointer could be nett differential of -10 (par 72, CSS 68)

So the difference in performance could be only 1 stroke - a narrow margin to be condemning someone else's handicap.

 

[garyinderry]

how does the CSS change the points total ?

 

[rosecott]

how does the CSS change the points total ?

It doesn't, but it affects the nett differentials which is what is used for handicap adjustments.

 

[garyinderry]

a 50 pointer is still 14 shots below handicap whatever why you want to look at it!

 

[rosecott]

a 50 pointer is still 14 shots below handicap whatever why you want to look at it!

No it isn't.

 

[garyinderry]

for an 18 handicaper it is ! correct me if im wrong.

 

[Region3]

for an 18 handicaper it is ! correct me if im wrong.

You are right in that it is nett 14 under par, but CSS may not be equal to par on the day.

If par were 72 and CSS was 70, then 38pts would be playing to handicap.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[brendy]

for an 18 handicaper it is ! correct me if im wrong.

You are wrong.








I had 46 points but had an 8 on a par 4 meaning I didnt go round 10 under the handicap, this throws a spanner in the works when assuming stroke is the same as stableford.

 

[garyinderry]

an 8 on a par 4 is a blank in anyones book. this will only cost you 2 shots. i can still see you shoot 10 under you handicap if you manage to claw back anther 12 strokes.

 

[Tignanello97]

@post100
Last summer in a comp I started bird-eagle-bird.......went on to shoot a pretty good score. Next time this happens I'm just going to stop after the third hole & claim 60 pts......I mean after all if I can get 10pts on three holes I have to be able to keep that pace going. If I get dq'd will you back me up?
Proves it's possible.....spat my tea out when I read that!!!!

 

[rosecott]

Brendy,

Now you've just confused things.

garyinderry,

To put it another way:

Par 72 CSS 72 - 36 points is "playing to handicap" - so 45 points is 9 better than "playing to handicap".
Par 72 CSS 68 - 40 points is "playing to handicap" - so 50 points is 10 better than "playing to handicap".

 

[garyinderry]

i see now. how likely would the CSS be 4 under?

 

[rosecott]

i see now. how likely would the CSS be 4 under?

I've seen it - Par 72, SSS 69 from yellows, CSS 68 on the day.

There is a club near here which is Par 68, SSS 64 from the whites.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

41.

 

[Slime]

@post100
Last summer in a comp I started bird-eagle-bird.......went on to shoot a pretty good score. Next time this happens I'm just going to stop after the third hole & claim 60 pts......I mean after all if I can get 10pts on three holes I have to be able to keep that pace going. If I get dq'd will you back me up?
Proves it's possible.....spat my tea out when I read that!!!!

Now you're just being silly. You're saying someone can't possibly have two teriffic nines in the same round.
On May 2, 2010, Ryo Ishikawa shot a 58 in the final round of The Crowns tournament on the Japan Tour. It wa 12 under which would have scored 48 points, making him a bandit, obviously!
You have to realise the word I used was 'possible' and not 'probable'.


Slime.

 

[Tignanello97]

I think you are confusing amateurs & professionals....as I'm sure you are aware it's a completely different game for them. Ryo was also a +5 as an amateur.......knocking your calculation to 43 pts. In my eyes a great round ....but this is to be expected from this calibre of players.
Keep on clocking up those cricket scores.
At least dick Turpin wore a mask!!

 

[Imurg]

Just out of interest Tig, what's your best.