Talk:Golf handicap
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[edit] Specific Example People
Why not use the Beatles for the specific example? Otherwise, the reader will think that you have put in the names of your buddies for this example. The only other alternative is to say "Player A", "Player B", etc. John Paul George Ringo is more fun!
- I think that using "Player A", "Player B", "Player C", and "Player D" is the best solution (most neutral, most lucid, etc.). If there is any kind of consensus on this, I'll go ahead and change the names to that. Otherwise, I see no harm in leaving the Beatles names in there. --Rahzel 04:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Headline text
Some of the text in this article is copied from the USGA web site. I believe it must be removed and/or modified.
[edit] Determining a players Handicap
This section is confusing. I believe it may be relevant to Brittish golfers, but is confusing and irrelevant to US golfers. "SSS" is not term used in the US. Par is NOT the score an expert golfer will get on a hole, when discussed in the context of handicapping. The Course Rating is the score an expert golfer will get on an entire course, and this number is often (usually) lower than par.
I edited this section to clarify the definitions of slope and rating. Hopefully things are a bit clearer now. --Rahzel 16:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah I think this article needs two distinct sections. One for handicapping in America via USGA system and the other for the R&A system in the rest of world. At the moment it seems to be all the USGA system, and Im pretty sure thats very different to the R&A one.
- Does the R&A really specify the handicap system for the rest of the world? They administer the Rules of Golf, but that is separate from handicap (the USGA administers both for the US and Mexico, but they are separate committees there as well). It seems as though the lead paragraph is more correct, which says handicaps are handled by national golf associations and the like. I added some links to some different systems; the article describes the USGA system and the UK system [1] but there appear to be others that are quite different. Carl Lindberg 04:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What the heck is this ?
Handicapping in the United Kingdom In the UK, there is a procedure carried out once every 30 days. A team of 3 pro golfers per district are legally obligated to drive spazmodically in a golf cart with a Union Jack painted all over it, and hit passersby's upper kneecap called the "crikey zone" with a 5 iron golf club. The law states that the county with the most number of wheelchair sales the next day will recieve a 30-35% cut of the profits of the sales for use on anything. The customary use for the money is solid gold toilet seats for the golfers.
Maybe someone should remove this little bit?
mickrussom 04:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- You think? ;-) Looks like vandalism to me. I reverted the article to the last sensible version by BossyJoe. Saved a link from one of the anonymous IP edits that seemed ok. --JmT 21:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] just saying
huh. i didnt know the beatles played golf.24.144.137.244 13:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)