- Joined
- May 5, 2016
- Location
- British Isles
- HCP
- Scratch
- Local club/country
- British Isles
- Irons
- Mizuno JPX 921 Forged 4-PW KBS Tour 120 Stiff , 3 Deg up plus 1”
- Driver
- Ping G425 Max 10.5 HZRDS Blue Stiff
Have you missed the buffer by a single shot this weekend or maybe two days running?!! Sorry if it's old hat but for single figure guys / cat 1 it's always been an issue since the CSS inception. Interested to hear peoples thoughts?
suppose you have a dog of a round and somehow sign for 23 point or maybe 27 points, you'll miss the buffer by miles , however, playing in tough conditions or maybe after an errant shot whereby you have had a no score hole you work away and score 35 points to salvage your round / shoot a net score 2 over par net only to find you have missed the buffer zone by a shot. Both scenarios recieve the dreaded 0.1 increase , hardly seems right? The old handicapping system was much fairer as it discouraged bandits and handicaps were more realistic. If you were off 10 handicap and shot a 6 over par score you'd find yourself off 8 the following week or if you shot 2 over on the round you might be reduced to 7 or even 6. The downside was there were a small group of chaps who would enter some of the top flight amateur events off 1 handicap (court for British amateur was far higher then) and shoot rounds in the high 80s etc.
It would seem fairer that the buffer was revised so that it was 5 shots all round before an upward adjustment , after all 54 handicaps are ini use for men and women nowadays.
What do you think? I know some of you have society handicaps which seem far more realistic?
suppose you have a dog of a round and somehow sign for 23 point or maybe 27 points, you'll miss the buffer by miles , however, playing in tough conditions or maybe after an errant shot whereby you have had a no score hole you work away and score 35 points to salvage your round / shoot a net score 2 over par net only to find you have missed the buffer zone by a shot. Both scenarios recieve the dreaded 0.1 increase , hardly seems right? The old handicapping system was much fairer as it discouraged bandits and handicaps were more realistic. If you were off 10 handicap and shot a 6 over par score you'd find yourself off 8 the following week or if you shot 2 over on the round you might be reduced to 7 or even 6. The downside was there were a small group of chaps who would enter some of the top flight amateur events off 1 handicap (court for British amateur was far higher then) and shoot rounds in the high 80s etc.
It would seem fairer that the buffer was revised so that it was 5 shots all round before an upward adjustment , after all 54 handicaps are ini use for men and women nowadays.
What do you think? I know some of you have society handicaps which seem far more realistic?