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  • #152
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Russman wrote: »
    Don't most clubs do domestic or winter handicaps already though ? Where you lose say two shots for a win etc, and then when the season kicks off again in the spring you revert to your "normal" handicap ? Seems a lot fairer than cutting someone's real handicap based on shortened course, placing etc. ?

    A lot fairer? Are you kidding me? So they can revert back to their normal handicap and proceed to win lots of team events during the summer and then next winter clean up again until they get too many domestic cuts? I don't think so.

    General play cuts are there for a reason and they need to be used more frequently. After all, we know now how the courts feel about aggrieved golfers who disagree with getting any cuts that they can't avoid. Snip snip Mr Secretary.


  • #153
    DiegoWorst
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭DiegoWorst


    HighLine wrote: »
    A lot fairer? Are you kidding me? So they can revert back to their normal handicap and proceed to win lots of team events during the summer and then next winter clean up again until they get too many domestic cuts? I don't think so.

    General play cuts are there for a reason and they need to be used more frequently. After all, we know now how the courts feel about aggrieved golfers who disagree with getting any cuts that they can't avoid. Snip snip Mr Secretary.

    After a tough summer grinding away on the team event circuit, passing up opportunities to win singles competitions, do you not think the least Mr. Bandit deserves is a handy turkey or two and a bottle of whiskey? ;)


  • #154
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,915 ✭✭✭Russman


    HighLine wrote: »
    A lot fairer? Are you kidding me? So they can revert back to their normal handicap and proceed to win lots of team events during the summer and then next winter clean up again until they get too many domestic cuts? I don't think so.

    General play cuts are there for a reason and they need to be used more frequently. After all, we know now how the courts feel about aggrieved golfers who disagree with getting any cuts that they can't avoid. Snip snip Mr Secretary.

    So, is the default position that everyone who wins is a bandit ?


  • #155
    HighLine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭HighLine


    Russman wrote: »
    So, is the default position that everyone who wins is a bandit ?

    Where did I say that? I simply suggested that players who win a lot during the winter, win a lot of team events and clock up nothing but a string of .1s during the summer should be cut via the mechanisms that are already in place, namely a cut on general play.
    How anyone can see that as unfair is beyond me. In fact, unfair, is not doing so.


  • #156
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,915 ✭✭✭Russman


    HighLine wrote: »
    Where did I say that? I simply suggested that players who win a lot during the winter, win a lot of team events and clock up nothing but a string of .1s during the summer should be cut via the mechanisms that are already in place, namely a cut on general play.
    How anyone can see that as unfair is beyond me. In fact, unfair, is not doing so.

    I don't believe for a second there are that many of those players out there to be honest. I've no issue with cuts for team events apart from the possible unfairness to a team member who hasn't contributed. But something like a win and a place would equal a cut of whatever, a sliding scale based on class maybe.

    Wins and places in the winter are IMHO almost irrelevant. For a start your handicap is against the course not the field. The same score might win one day and come 20th the next, as could happen in summer too but in summer there's a CSS to base a cut on. Plus fields are usually smaller in winter so you've a better chance of winning. Factor in placing (massive advantage) and shortened courses, I think domestic cuts are much fairer.


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