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Old 10-28-2024, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
I follow @LouStagner on twitter. He is a golf stats guy, and coaches the Princeton Men's golf team, and caddies in USGA amateur tournaments.


@BrianL, you are probably a scratch golfer, correct! very impressive given the difficulty of the sport.
I'm far from scratch. Getting that low at 70+ years old is tough. I was 5.3 when I left TV last May. I've been between 3-6 for about 15 years. I've had a nagging injury for a few months and up to around 8 now.

It's extremely tough to keep a low handicap in TV, because of the course ratings & slope. To be scratch, you'd need to shoot under par most every day, from the Blue or Gold Tees.

To give you an idea, a Scratch Player at Mallory, playing Caroline to Virginia from the Blue Tees, is playing at +4. Shooting 68 isn't easy, no matter what golf course you're playing.