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Originally Posted by Slava
So, just kind of curious, how honest are you guys with your scores? I’m pretty much completely honest I’d say, and sometimes it pains me to be that harsh! I played with a guy this week (not a CPer that I’m aware of) and at the end of the round he had beaten me by about 6-7 strokes. I don’t really care...but at the same time there were a lot of holes where he had hit into the trees or whatever, couldn’t make putts and overall just wasn’t that good. His handicap is about 10 strokes better than mine I guess. So, I got to thinking, I wonder how honest people are with their scores in general?
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I try to be 100% honest with every score for handicap purposes. The odd time if my ball is in a rut or a divot on the fairway I'll move it out so I can hit off grass and at least have a chance, but that's pretty rare. I guess sometimes I'm given putts, too, when playing with friends - so in theory I could miss a few of those. Let's call it 98% honest.
I played a couple of weeks ago with a friend - first tee at 9:30 am and no warmup - pulled a ball into the out of bounds area left off the tee. He insisted I hit a "breakfast ball" and not count it, so I went ahead and did that & played out the round. When I posted the score at the end, I made sure to add 2 for the out of bounds, despite what we wrote on the scorecard.