DRiccio21 wrote:i think handicaps are unnecessary.
i 'won' the first round of the other tourney, i had no idea til Downing told me we use Handicaps to determine standings. i only go by my actual score on the game. my actual score on the game was 1 behind Downing, i felt a pretty nice sense of accomplishment knowing i beat all the rest of you bums for that one round and i still had the disappointment of knowing i missed 2 really easy putts that i could have beaten Downing.
when he told me i had 'won the round' i was pretty blah about it.
maybe i'm off on this, but i play the game cause its fun. i'm typically doing it when i'm getting home from work, needing to decompress and in the middle of doing my pushups and situps and chatting with my wife. not that i'm not trying to be competitive, i am and i really do just suck, but i'm not dying to win tournies... that has absolutely nothing to do with my motives to play.
just my opinion. i'll be playing my rounds when i remember and when i want to play a round of golf.
You're going to be close to winning the tourney. I think your total with the handicap is like -33. My theory is that if we lower the difficulty, everyone is going to be shooting around -15 to -20. So, if we are going to give guys strokes to get them to hyper-unrealistic scores, why not just have everyone really shooting those scores? Wouldn't you like it better if you weren't basically handed a win, and you actually shot a score capable of winning?
I'm sure we'll hear "well, then we're making game too easy". So you want the game to be hard, but you want someone to give you a bunch of strokes so you have a fake score? What's "hard" about that? Doesn't make sense to me.