Skins - do you always play off the low handicap in your foursome?

[Jeremie Boop]

Originally Posted by Fourputt

Spoken like one who has never really competed.  Once it gets in your blood, playing without competition just isn't the same.  It's still golf and it's still fun, but it just doesn't have the same zip.  Believe me, when you are playing in a tournament, you aren't thinking about handicap strokes, you are just thinking about playing the best you can and beating the competition, regardless of what that competition may be.  As others have mentioned, a good tournament club flights by handicap, so you are only competing against others in your range straight up.  As your handicap improves, you just move up to better flights.

If you mean never really competed in golf, then you are 100% correct as far as serious competition. If you mean competed at all, you are very wrong. I am a very competitive person, however I don't get into seriously competing until I feel I have a legitimate chance to do well otherwise it's a waste of my time.