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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Okay, seems like there is no good solution other than demanding that the handicaps be used to level the field or there is no match. I sympathize with Enoch where guys don't keep a handicap, but I hope low handicappers do understand that high handicappers have a very wide range of scores and can occasionally crush their handicap. The high handicap is the lack of ability to keep it together for 18 holes, not that the raw skill isn't there. I've gone as low as 82 and as high as 97 this year - it's a wide spread.
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But again, it isn't an average. And no, you shouldn't be able to 'crush' your handicap (excluding that one, 'game of the year' round)
Handicaps are calculated using only the best 8 of your last 20 rounds. And even those 8 are filtered for high scores on individual holes. Let's say you're a 13 and you shoot 87. Do you post that you shot 15 over? Depends, as a 13, you can only count (for handicap purposes) a double bogey on any given hole. So if you had a quad in that 87, you are supposed to post the round as n 85.
Now, once you have done this for a period of time, you will have scores in the 90s or over a hundred, but none of them will count. Only the best 8 scores, which are probably going to range from maybe 82 to 88 are going to count. And you are going to end up as (or continue to be, if you've been doing it for a while) somewhere around 13 or 14.
Once you have this handicap of 13 or 14, having had scores ranging from low 80s to high 90s. you realize that 'crushing' your handicap simply doesn't, or shouldn't happen. Again, I understand that high handicappers have more volatility in their scoring, but the system largely filters that out.
Your handicap reflects the TOP of your ability, not the average of it.