At 01:55 AM 8/4/2009, Tom Flanagan wrote:
Oh, come on;
You're playing with your friends. One is a 4 handicapper, you're a
12, an other guy's a 14 and a fourth is a scratch player. Are you
seriously suggesting that all play at scratch? The way it works is
the low handicapper plays at scratch and the rest spin off him.
That's how it works in the real world of friendly golf played for a
few bucks. I don't know of anybody who plays it differently.
This year, we tried something completely different for a change, and it worked.
Three guys besides me. I was spotting one guy 20 years (he's 48), and
the other two about 40 years (age 26 and 30). The 26-year-old was
REALLY long, but not that accurate. So he and the 48-year-old were
about equal, but very different games. I was similar to Mr48 in
overall skill, but can't hit the ball as far any more. So we all
played even, but I got a one-tee handicap. That is, they played the
blues and I played the whites. Turned out to be a very close competition.
BTW, the 30-year-old had one of those vanity 'caps, and he made the
mistake of believing it. He wanted to play no strokes with everybody,
from the blues. He was never a factor. (It was clear after a couple
of holes, from his swing and his decision making, that he was not
just having a bad day; there was no way he could play to that index.)
Cheers!
DaveT
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