RoundersRob
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Hey!!! No need to name call!! :stickbeat:
LOL - just saying that I am in the same boat.
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Hey!!! No need to name call!! :stickbeat:
I'd have to assume that you were playing a pretty hard course to be ~5 handicap and shoot over 100. That had to be an off day or a round from the tips at Bethpage Black.
My handicap is not an average of my scores, but my shooting potential. Everybody has bad rounds I thought, maybe I am wrong.
This has been one of the most mature and well thought out threads in a long long time. I find the overall topic really facinating.I'm not the golfer that my hcp represents at all. I am prone to go on the bogey train, I am prone to put a double on the card. I don't really have a home course so I believe that my game travels well. It always has to be honest. I pay very little attention to ratings/slope and mostly play from a length that I find comfortable. A bad day on the course for me is if I shoot 84 or higher, that means I struggled. I think this is pretty fascinating stuff to be honest.
This has been one of the most mature and well thought out threads in a long long time. I find the overall topic really facinating.
I agree man. Reading TC's response and something at the end I found very interesting regarding expectations based on handicap. Makes me think I am too hard on myself from a strictly scoring perspective as it relates to handicap.
YOu are dude. Most people are. It's the one thing I see the most at outings or MC's. Guys get down on themselves quick. Do you think I enjoyed losing to IN? No way! But I rattled off 4 bogeys in a row to his pars. He played the way I always play, but I didn't that day. You played with me cookie. I'm not the longest guy off the tee and I don't work iron shots, but I hit everything forward and consistently. No big chunks or thins or balls that cost me penalty strokes. When you eliminate those misses, your handicap will plummet dude. Just b/c I'm scratch doesn't mean I shoot even par all the time. Do I think I have the potential to? Yep, and that's what I'm trying to do. I'm just glad that on Caledonia, I showcased that I am truly a scratch golfer, b/c I had old man Par licked that day. I think you could easily be a sub 6 hcp next month dude. You just have those one or two shots where you chunk it. Those are the ones that kill you. You don't have to hit every GIR, but it's nice to be up there around it. I saw a lot of dudes at the MC who played way better than their hcps suggest.
That makes a ton of sense and thank you for the vote of confidence and additional information.
I was surprised to see you say that as a scratch golfer anything over 84 is a sign of struggling. As a 9, I think anything over 87 or so for me is struggling. I did nothing special yesterday and shot 76 with 1 penalty shot which tells me the potential is there, just a matter of keeping the ball in front of me with a decent short game.
This is definitely making me rethink my expectations as it relates to handicap in general. I just always thought that a 5 for example should break 80 consistently.
Eye opening conversation, great thread!
This is a really great thread. I personally think that my handicap follows me very well. I am at a 11 hcp now and I have shot lower than that at my home courses only. I tend to play two courses the most around my house. When I travel I tend to shoot about 5 above that. I seem to struggle with course management on new courses. I find my self in trouble a lot and have to scramble to get out of it.
On to another question or two I have about handicaps.
What should some one average over their handicap? How much over a handicap is a really bad round?