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Did anyone else see the story in Golfweek about the PGA Tour Superstore World Amateur taking away the title from the apparent winner?

They took two things into account it sounds like: a USGA probabality scale and the fact he hadn't posted in two months.

But his answer was pretty cool: "It's a good feeling to shoot a couple of days of good scores, but I understand where they're coming from. I'll try to go back down next year and do it again."

Even though I suck...my first thought was to grab all those cards and get them posted. My second thought...what the heck is a probability scale? Isn't it up to each club to monitor what someone posts? And wouldn't it be the club be the one to question in an event like this, since it's sanctioned?
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The World Amateur is very strict about handicaps given the scale of the event. Golf World did an article on it a couple months back referrring to room 222. It's the room where the officials work out of and if a player gets called there it's not a good thing.

Take a look around their website http://www.worldamgolf.com/ for more info
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Even though I suck...my first thought was to grab all those cards and get them posted. My second thought...what the heck is a probability scale? Isn't it up to each club to monitor what someone posts? And wouldn't it be the club be the one to question in an event like this, since it's sanctioned?

If you're a 22-handicap and your 10 best of your last 20 scores average out to, say, an 85, then the likelihood of you shooting 75 on any given day is very, very, very small. Like less than 1/100 percent or so... Know what I mean?

It's like a steady D student suddenly acing a test without even coming to class for the past two months. If you were a teacher, you'd be a bit suspicious.

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Here is the probability scale by the USGA

Odds of Shooting exectional Tournament Scores

I used this link in my post on how people don't understand the handicap system at all.

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Very interesting isn't it? Wow! I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself when I post a +4 net score or blow a chance on the last four holes to shoot a -5 net score. Just the other day I was standing on the 14th hole at -1 for the round (gross). I was scared to death, and I proceeded to shoot +10 over the next 5 holes to shoot an 81. It makes me realize that the odds were I was supposed to crash and burn.
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Very interesting isn't it? Wow! I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself when I post a +4 net score or blow a chance on the last four holes to shoot a -5 net score. Just the other day I was standing on the 14th hole at -1 for the round (gross). I was scared to death, and I proceeded to shoot +10 over the next 5 holes to shoot an 81. It makes me realize that the odds were I was supposed to crash and burn.

Damn I know how that feels... I still haven't broken 40 for 9 or 80 for 18... It's definitely the mental game because i've gotten so close this past season. Hopefully I can continue to sharpen my mental game before the season ends (which is something I am NOT NOT NOT looking forward to)

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Damn I know how that feels... I still haven't broken 40 for 9 or 80 for 18... It's definitely the mental game because i've gotten so close this past season. Hopefully I can continue to sharpen my mental game before the season ends (which is something I am NOT NOT NOT looking forward to)

For years my quest was to break 90. Nothing in life was more important yet seemed so unattainable to me. 91's and 92's up the wazoo but I just couldn't cut those last few strokes off.

One "magical" day, with no expectations other than to have a good time with my buddies, I shot 87. With nothing more than the knowledge that I could actually do it, I managed another five rounds that season below 90. Barely, in some cases, but, darn it, they were below 90! (Most weren't, by the way. Those were seen as cases of "bad play" and not cases of not having enough game. A new mental approach for me. I was an 80's golfer who occasionally had a bad round. A helluva feeling even if it was "self-imposed". ) My best 9-hole round? A 37 on a par-35. (13 putts. Another "magical" day. I'd like that touch back again... ) 18 holes? An 80 on a par-73. Dang, dang, dang... (Never to be repeated but, that's okay.) When it comes, you'll tell yourself that it was there all along... Rick
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