The odds of shooting substantially below your handicap.
http://www.usga.org/handicapping/articles_resources/Odds-of-Shooting-an-Exceptional-Tournament-Score/
The chart says you had a 1 in 7246 chance of this happening.
Given your 'cap and your scores you should have spent the night after
the tourney celebrating a once in a lifetime achievement.
sean
On 6-Aug-09, at 8:39 AM, Eric Schoonmaker wrote:
From: "Childers, Tedd A" <[email protected]>
If someone shoots more than 2-3 strokes lower than their handicap
in 2
consecutive tournament rounds, they are 100% a sandbagger.
Well, this is sort of extreme. Also, if you are playing a set of
tees where the course rating is substantially lower than par then
you will shoot your course hdcp or better probably a fair amount of
the time. Conversely if you play the tips, and that course rating
is say 6 strokes higher than par then you might NEVER shoot your
hdcp (relative to par).
In 2000, at a major tournament at my club, i shot 79-77 for the
weekend as a 14 hdcp. Par 71, course rating was 70.2 at the time.
I would be ok if you said i was 99% chance sandbagger based on that
but at least in my case - it wasnt 100%.
BTW - i came in 2nd. A 9 hdcp shot 76-74 that weekend....
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