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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4027707, member: 1609"] I once played in our course Match Play Championship. I was a 14 handicap and drew a guy I knew who was a legitimate 7-8. He could break 80 falling out of bed. Somehow before the Tournament he balloons up 12-13 . He had to put in a bunch of bad scores to get there. We had a machine that recalculated our handicap and since we played every day it took a significant period of time to move in either direction. I played him around even for 9 but when you get behind and press its downhill from there. Remember he is out driving me by 30-40 yards on every hole. and I loose 4-3. He ended up winning the tourney and making a bunch of enemies. With real handicaps the pressure is on him not me and the outcome is different. I wasn’t going to win it all but it would have been nice to have an even shot. For you non golfers If we played legitimate handicaps I would get one stroke on each of the 7 hardest holes. Since he is a longer hitter than me the long par 4 usually would be among the hardest. He might be able to par the hole but with a stroke a boggie gives me half . Im as good as him ,maybe better , as short irons were my strength. on the par 3‘s and all but the longest 5’s again where I’m getting a stroke . I played in a mulligan event which to everyone’s surprise no one really made a big score improvement. [/QUOTE]