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RustUK

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  1. I would prefer the need for there to be a certain number of competition scores included within your last 20 rounds to ensure that your ability is monitored correctly under the right conditions. If you only play with your buddies a couple of times of month and never play in competitions, you don't need an official handicap, you can just work it out amongst yourselves. The problems arise, generally, when players are allowed to manipulate their handicap by to sandbag, by entering casual rounds.
  2. I think the main difference is with the old UK system(R&A) and I think the Australian one is that the handicap was calculated based on competition rounds only. I think that gave a fairer reflection of a player's ability when taking a round seriously. There were no casual rounds included where, frankly, there is more of an opportunity to post inaccurate scores to either sandbag or vanity handicap.
  3. I thought the same, you can see Will laughing as he walked off the stage. If it wasn't staged, I can't see him going from laughing at a joke to being that mad about it in 10 seconds. It doesn't make sense. But, he has apologised for it today, so I guess it was real.
  4. I can't feel too sorry for you guys, in the UK we are paying the equivalent of around $10 per gallon! 😒
  5. I can relate to this. 4 years ago I was playing off 24, my weaknesses were being wayward off the tee with my driver and being very suspect at any partial shots. My course is relative short and most par 4s are between 300 yards and 350 yards, so a good drive leaves a shot of between 60 yards and 100 yards generally. This quite often left me with a horrible partial wedge shot which I hated. So, I made the decision that I would take an iron off the tee instead of driver and leave myself between 120 and 150 into the green allowing a full shot into the green whilst having a safer tee shot. This worked like a dream, I started shooting high 80s/low 90s consistently every week and my handicap dropped to 16 within a year. However, I then found that I couldn't break 85, I had very few looks at a decent birdie putt and more often than not, was tapping in for bogey. After staying at around 16 for 2 years, I realised that I needed to improve my wedge game and my driver. After working hard with a local pro I have managed to improve both areas quite dramatically and now after hitting driver off the tee, being in the 60 to 100 yard region is a blessing rather than a curse as I feel like I can get it within 15 feet most of the time and am now having a good look at a birdie putt but have a guaranteed 2 putt most of the time. And now, 85 is easy to break, I have had several rounds in the 70s this year with my lowest being 75 and I have achieved my long term goal of a single figures handicap. So, the moral of the story is, irons off the tee, good short term fix, but work on your driver and approach shots if you want to get your handicap really low.
  6. England golf have now released handicaps under WHS, I presume the rest of the UK is the same. My handicap dropped 1.7 shots down to 12.3. Anyone else in the UK notice a big drop in handicap?
  7. Thanks for the feedback guys, very interesting responses.
  8. I have searched around the forum a little bit and can't find what I'm looking for. I'm wondering how I can calculate my handicap by different facets of my golf game, so that I can calculate my weaknesses and work on what to improve. For example is there to work out for example that my 16 handicap is made up: Putting 10 hdcp Driving 20 hdcp GIR 14 hdcp U&D 18 hdcp Sand saves 24 hdcp etc. I would like to be able to see areas that need improvement and to measure how they are improving. Do I need an app or is there a way of calculating this?
  9. I know someone who bought a round of drinks thinking he had a hole in one, and then discovered it wasn't actually a hole in one. 🙄😂
  10. Funnily enough I nearly did it again on the same hole yesterday. My shot was all over the flag in the air, but when I walked up the hill to the green, it was five feet past the hole. Missed the birdie putt as well. 🙄
  11. Unfortunately I ended up with the worst of both worlds 😂 We thought it was a hole in one, so I paid for a round of drinks in the club house. I then had this nagging doubt that it might not count, hence the post on this forum. So huge bar bill and no hole in one. 😂😂
  12. Yes it was. If you watch the video closely, as the wind subsides and the flag moves towards the centre of the cup, the ball follows it. We are only talking about fractions of inches but the ball would not stay connected to the flag as the flag moved away from it, if more than half of the ball wasn't over the hole.
  13. It was a short 125 yard par 3 slightly up hill. A well struck pitching wedge, but you can't see the bottom of the flag so didn't see it land. I thought I'd gone too long, but my friend thought it was close. Turns out he was right! I wish I'd taken some pictures from ground level, so I had a better chance of determining whether any part of the ball was underground. Wasn't 100% sure of the rules at the time and didn't want to hold up the group behind by taking too long. It seems by the strict letter of the law that, as I don't think any of the ball was under the surface it isn't a hole in one. But that just seems wrong as it was over half way in to the hole and clearly leaning in to the hole. My friend gently centred the flag and it dropped in the hole. I'm just glad it wasn't my first hole in one as I would be really gutted right now!
  14. Ok, that should work now.
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