Here’s an article in my local rag about sandbaggers. I don’t play in many state tournaments for the reason that I know some sandbagger is going to shoot a “career” round and win. I don’t have a chance net because I’m too “honest.”
Interesting statistics about players shooting below their handicap:
Odds are 1 in 200 a player will better a handicap by three strokes in one round, 1 in 570 they will do it by five strokes, 1 in 1,138 by eight strokes and 1 in 82,000 by 10 strokes.
Just last week in a Saturday AM a 9 handicap here shot a 67. He won first net with a 58. His differential was 14 from his handicap, far worse odds than 1 in 82,000. Pretty amazing this guy can shoot that “career” round under the pressure of a big state tournament. Not only that, but most the state tournaments have the courses setup as difficult as possible with the tees back and the pins in crazy positions. So this guy shoots a 1 in 1,000,000 round under those conditions? He’d better not run into me in a dark alley somewhere.
This article also mentions another type of cheater we have here and I KNOW THIS GUY. This particular guy has paid his $25 registration fee for his state handicap card 5 times under 5 different names. He picks his name and handicap and matches them up for the tournament he wants to play in. As something like a mid teen handi, he shot a 72 gross at Wingpointe in a state tournament. 1st place. Wingpointe from the black tees can be as tough a course as you’ll ever play and NO teen handicap player would likely break 80 from the blacks in a tournament there.
What’s even worse about this cheater is that he BRAGS about doing this to his golf buddies. Amazing.
Given the state of handicaps around here I’m pretty much faced with having to try to place in the money in state tourneys on the gross side. Good luck there. I have another post about that subject on the way.
Lucky Charms for dinner…
In this post I previewed my round today. It was my normal Thursday money game. I’ve been fighting golf and personal demons so my game has been suffering.
The weather today was spectacular and the course, Bonneville, was in amazing condition. The greens were plush and fast and the fairways perfect. The rough was a little too “healthy” so you wanted to stay out of it.
My main goal for the day was to keep my mental focus and try to play golf, instead of hack it around concentrating on other things. I was able to concentrate quite well, after my tee shot on #1 hit the 9th fairway.
I had it to -1 up to #8 where I missed an easy uphill par putt of about 5 feet. 10-bogey, 12-bogey. Damn…went from -1 to +2 in 5 holes.
On the 230 yard par 3 15th, I hit a terrible 3-iron to about 15 yards short left. Then I “chubbed” (I made up that word) my chip to some six inch rough. I now had a downhill chip from heavy rough with the pin about 60 feet away. DRAINO!
The par 5 16th I had the “mo” and I knocked a 3-wood on the green for my 2nd shot and made a routine 2-putt birdie. Keeping the mo in hand I then knocked my tee shot on the par 3 17th to about 2 feet. 2nd birdie in a row. That brought me back to even, where I finished.
I collected the money today 🙂
I was quite happy with the round and the day got better. I managed to squeeze some clients for dough they owed me, and found out another important “deal” will be done in about 10 days which will help me big time. And to cap it off, I played drums in the studio on a guy’s album this evening…
This week’s winner for fantasy golf is LGHTeam. For his efforts this week he wins a Golf Dust Tune-Up Kit.
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Tomorrow I play 18. I’ve been battling some “issues” in my personal life and these issues have turned into demons on the course. It’s tough for me to concentrate on the course right now. My game has suffered lately and my patience is very thin.
I played in my Tuesday league this week with the thought of one word: patience. It helped because I shot a 74 with a double/bogey start. Every time I felt mad about hitting a bad shot or lipping out one of the 10 times under 10 feet, I just said the word “patience.” It helped. I even laughed at myself. It’s either try to overcome the mental demons and frustrations or I may break every club AND the bag if I crack.
So tomorrow’s money game will be a real mental test. In last week’s money game I failed the test. The whole round I felt like I wanted to leave. I’ve never felt that before on the course. My confidence and my wallet paid the price. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
My good buddy Eat (Rich) has been burning his geek candles at both ends. He’s been flexing his super geek muscles for a couple of months on something that could have a huge impact on how us “club ho” types buy gear:
The new EAT GOLF SHOPPER
Type in any golf item you’re in the market for and let the Eat Shopper search all the stores on the web and present you with a list of all the best prices, with images no less. It’s like golf’s version of Price Watch.
Shh. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to say this but it works for other items too. I searched for “panties” and the Eat Golf Shopper gave me a mere 40611 selections. Ahem, I’ll be busy tonight…
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