HCP indexes are adjusted to the course, so I should have said a person who shoots 2-3 strokes lower than their course adjusted HCP in consecutive tournament rounds is 100% a sandbagger. About the only exception is someone who has dramatically improved their game recently, but still has high scores that are being used for HCP, and that would be an unintentional bagger...
Tedd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Weijand Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Handicap 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.... > > > > -- > Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. > Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ -- Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/ -- Shoptalk ** Sponsored by the new Aldila Voodoo. Learn more at http://aldilavoodoo.com/
