Are You a Vanity Capper?

[DewSweeper09]

No. If anything, I’m guilty of the opposite…sandbagging. I call it being modest. 

[Shindig]

This came up in my club championship (which just ended yesterday).  One of my hopes -- a consequence of my practice plans this summer -- was my hope to be in a flight that isn't the highest handicap grouping in my club championship.  It turns out I missed the line by a small amount.  I think 0.3 handicap marks lower, I'd have been in that flight.  While I ended up winning D flight gross, some of my friends told me it was B.S. that I was even in D flight (I don't disagree, but it certainly wasn't my plan, and I think everyone in C and D flight who knows me knows it wasn't my intent). 

The funny thing is, my club has a "club index" -- your last however many tournament rounds are used for a separate calculation, and if that's lower than your low index, you use that for big events (club championship, match play, etc).  In my club's match play, I got to the quarter finals -- and that quarter final round knocked a 79 out of my club index (no longer one of my X most recent), raising my playing handicap for the tournament to put me into D flight.  So blame whoever I beat in the round of eight   

Oh well.  I started the club championship as a 13.2 and am now a 12.3 three rounds later  So my plans to have a vanity handicap and play to it are coming to fruition!