Fair enough for me, to keep it the way it is. But the point here is that, has anyone even gotten -15 yet? No and whomever that brought this up in the first place, it's unwarranted and baseless, peri ...
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Fair enough for me, to keep it the way it is. But the point here is that, has anyone even gotten -15 yet? No and whomever that brought this up in the first place, it's unwarranted and baseless, period. So in my opinion if anyone starts with a -15 handicap, then it's fine with me considering that they'll more likely shoot several throws over par more often than not. Barring a great round by them that day & shooting even...then props to them. The handicap may inflate their score, but we have to remember that their personal best score may have been just 59-60 & to hit 54, it's a big deal to them compared to experienced & advanced players.
What has already been proven is that a few of us can score -9, -10 & up to -12 recently by Josh Dick, so having a handicap of -12 to -18 still makes sense seeing that a bunch of players this year had scored anywhere from 55 to 71. Take this 71 (17 over) by Wesley Williams a few weeks ago & consider this cap of -15 if it was to come into play even though he may have been given a -18 or -21 by DGU the following week. His final score would be just +2 & it's not even enough to make it competitive with the winner's scores of -8's up to -13's, let alone the -4's to '6's on the bottom end of those who cashed.
Like Julian mentioned "Does the current system work?" Yes, I'll agree with him on that and that it should at least stay that way next year regardless. Since everyone paid to be part of this DGU handicap and the rules and handicaps are clear-cut & shown online, it's something that has to be followed. If nobody likes it or acts like they didn't know or expect it to happen, then that's their problem for not being aware and familiar with how the handicap system works. Like it or not, a rather high handicap of -17 to -20 will eventually come down the following week anyway and they'll have to work for everything in the next few weeks without the help of an inflated handicap.
