Most high-handicappers are capable of playing good shots and good holes, just not doing so consistently – which is precisely why they are high-handicappers.
So don’t moan when they get ‘on the green in zero’: let them have this rare moment of triumph. Golf is supposed to be fun, so don’t be a killjoy with your moaning or, to you, your utterly hilarious and jolly witty and oh so original comments about bandits.
Most golf competitions are set up in favour of the better golfer. The longest drive, nearest the pin and twos competitions – these are all in effect scratch competitions, whereby the high-handicapper is subsiding the prizes of the low-handicap players.
So have some humility. If you’re playing somebody of much higher handicap in match play, just accept that some holes you won’t be able to win if the high handicapper plays at their best on that hole. But match play is played over 18 holes, not one.
If a golfer is capable of playing most of the holes in a round well, they wouldn’t have a high handicap, would they? And if they never played a good shot, or a good hole, during a round, don’t you think they would probably have given up golf yonks ago?
High-handicappers like Roderick are still capable of good shots and holes
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