Sandbaggers ruin tournaments

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by dak4n6

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Originally Posted by Fourputt

There is nothing that odd about a 14 shooting 79.  It's not going to be an everyday occurrence, but it's not that unusual either.  My game has had that sort of inconsistency for more than 20 years.  During that time the lowest handicap I've ever had was a 9.6 index.  However, I've shot a lot of sub 80 rounds during that period.  My lifetime low score on a par 72 (69.4 rating and 120 slope - 6500 yards) course is 73, and just a couple of years ago I played through the 10th hole at 3 under par.  Just this spring, 3 of my first 6 rounds were 79, 76, 78 with a 13.5 index.  I just have never managed to have enough of those rounds grouped together to bring my handicap below 10.  I don't think that there have ever been more than 3 such scores in my last 20 at any one time.

Yeah, I know, but he just happened to shoot it in the club champ semis. I also played with him in the qualifier, and he carded an 83, but he stumbled coming home, otherwise that also would have been around 80. When I mentioned his HC to one of our starters, he just kind of nodded and said "hmmm, yeaaaah..."

I shot my 73 in the third round of my 72 hole 1989 Club Championship, and at the time it was the first time I'd ever broken 80.  I also made my first hole in one the next day in the final round while carding a 78.  In 23 years I've never matched that 73 - it came out of nowhere and has never been repeated.