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Scratch Cups - are they all that ?

  • 23-06-2013 12:28pm
    #1
    Almaviva
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    Scratch Cups thread running here for a good while but has always been a case of in-one-eye-out-the-other for me. And the reason is that I have never understood the point of anything other than genuine scratch competitions without any handicap restrictions.

    So unrestricted scratch cups I understand : lowest gross score = best golfer = winner. No handicaps involved. Pure golf.

    Handicapped competitions I understand. Integral part of the success of golf as a widely practiced sport : handicap system aims to give all golfers of whatever skill an equal chance against everyone else : best net score = golfer who played best on a given day relative to his standard = winner.

    But for me, junior sc, intermediate etc., are neither fish nor fowl. Neither handicapped nor not handicapped. Are they not pointless and unfair competitions, favouring the golfers who are at the low end of the range and disadvantaging those at the upper end? Say 6-11 level (junior?). Guy off 6 or 7 wins : "yay, I beat loads of golfer off 10 and 11 that I am better than anyway and should beat". Big deal.

    What am I missing ?


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  • #2
    big_drive
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    I don't agree, I think scratch cups are great competitions. If you didn't have grades then it would always be guys off scr, 1, 2 etc winning.

    In each if the grades the net prize gives every player some hope. A guy off 11 in a junior scratch is in with a shout of the nett if not the gross so gives something to play for. And its not always the lower end players which always win, I've seen guys off 10 win junior scratch cups. But I would agree that more often than not it will be those players who come out on top


  • #3
    kingcobra
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    I think scratch cups are great! Other than your big club competitions they're the best thing you can play in, aside from GUI championships and inter-club cups & shields. It's almost like a little tour in some sense as once you play in a few you tend to see some of the same people again and again and yet there's still a good mix of a few others each time.

    As for the lower handicaps always winning them, I suppose it's tougher for the very high handicaps (10 or 11 in junior SCs) to win, yet not entirely impossible. Yet for those of 5 or 6, it is still not easy for them to win, given that the majority are low handicaps for their class anyway. But either way, a lot of 8-11 handicaps could always have a great round and win it all; and when the wind is up it's anyone's game!

    Even with that, scratch cups are a great way to play different courses for a much cheaper price and keeps your competitive edge going! :D


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