Another Thing….The Influence of Medal vs. Match Play on Handicaps
by golfbookie on May 23, 2011 11:41 AM EDT
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One more thought on handicaps. Over the last 20 years, I’ve played in two different groups at Brookside GC in Pasadena, CA. The first group, a bunch of actors and Hollywood workers, alway has a standing medal bet of $10 to the low net winner, in addition to any number of match play bets. The second group is composed of other Pasadena residents, who never play a medal bet…..all bets are match play.
The difference in play is that the second group “gives” many more putts….if you’re playing a medal bet, every putt counts, so fewer putts are given. I estimate that the difference in recorded scores between the groups is at least two strokes per round per player.
Thus, any group that bets on medal scores will have much higher indexes than a group which only has match bets.
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We usually play a dollar for low net on either nine and a dollar for overall. Brain dead simple and the one dollar thing comes from Trading Places, where Mortimer and Randolph Duke are millionaires who bet a single dollar over the social experiment of trading the social status of Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd. It’s more about pride than it is the dollar, obviously.
The match play “friend zone” definitely leads to slightly lower scores. Many 4 footers for par have been swept after an opponent rolls in a birdie putt (or for some of you, many 4 footers for double have been swept after your opponent rolls in a bogey putt).
Also, if your opponent is already in for par and you have a 12 footer up the hill, your more likely to roll it 3 feet past knowing that you’re gonna scoop it if you miss anyway.
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