We played the first place team in the league this week, Mark and Dan. They have a nine hole handicap of 15 and 17 respectively. That means there real handicaps should be right around double that +- a stroke.
Dan was not there so we took on Mark. In our league you can get 2 strokes per hole based on handi so for Mark he got 2 strokes on holes 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 9. He received one stroke on 3, 5, and 8 (the par 3s). OK sure.
Now normally if I play a 30 handicap player, I would expect him to have some serious problems somewhere with his game. Like being very short, having a terrible slice, hook, putting, etc. problem was Dan was none of these things. Dan played below bogey golf for the round except for one hole. One hole where it felt like he may have been padding his score.
We got smoked.
If you take out the big blow up and say he got a double at worse on that hole that means he would have shot a 42. 7 over par. nearly half his handicap. Something be fishy here. Handicaps are meant to represent a golfer's potential rather than simply be an average of a golfer's scores.
Either Dan had the round of his life suddenly or there is sandbagging going on.
Oh well, it is not like we are in contention for anything anyways. Still, it makes me wonder about why they are in first place in the league.
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