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Old 08-31-2025, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by BrianL99 View Post
It's the same with most of the Championship courses. That's how the Handicap system works. On ridiculously easy courses, you need to shoot low numbers.

What's the deal with keeping your handicap down? It's supposed to be an accurate representation of your potential scores and the system does a fairly good job at calculating that.
I don't in any way want to keep my index artificially low, but I also don't want to be labelled a sandbagger. And that is what will happen if I show up to a money game at my home course with an extra couple of strokes and no degradation in my game. The system generally does a good job, but I mention a nuance of the system is that easy tracks often make your index go up.