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Nurse OAM is out again, just when I think you've run out of crass comments you come up with these toppers. And that's just from 2 threads in the last couple of hrs. Any other rare gems you've mined today for the congregation? Being passionate is not an excuse for being an ass.

Did my comment about the people of Mississippi rub you the wrong way?  

Most 5 year olds couldn't read and comprehend my comments.  

I guess I owe the state of MS an apology because you got butthurt.

Does this math work?  They are 6 over with bogeys and claw one back with a birdie but then have nearly 2 doubles.

Does this math work?  They are 6 over with bogeys and claw one back with a birdie but then have nearly 2 doubles.

Yes, it can work. 

First and foremost, your handicap is not your average score. It's actually not even based on your score relative to par. It's based on your score relative to the course rating and slope. This converts your raw score into something called a differential.  

But the first thing is that the handicap is not based on your average differential. It's based on the average of only your best 8 differentials out of your last 20 rounds. So you really only play better than your handicap about 20% of the time, not 50%. The average score for most golfers on 18 holes is usually about 3 strokes worse than your differential. 

So if the course rating were equal to par, a zero handicap would be expected to average about 3 over par. Which considering you've got 2.2 birdies (-2.2 strokes), 4.6 bogeys (+4.6 strokes), and 0.7 doubles (+1.4 strokes), according to Arccos data, a zero handicap averages 3.8 strokes over par. 

Close enough for government work, given that I don't know the course ratings a "typical" Arccos zero handicap is playing from. For example one of our local courses, Tijeras Creek, from the back tees is par 72 and course rating of 73.7. So a zero handicap actually shooting even par would be a round that's 1.7 strokes better than their handicap, and ~4.7 strokes better than their average. 

I didn't quote a map of anything I quoted your repeated petty responses to others - it's in English if that helps,what you were babbling about elswere who knows/cares

You're really taking time to do this?  Okay then.  So shall I.



You quoted this, among others, of which the aforementioned map highlighting Mississippi was attached to and showing.  All of the images have mysteriously disappeared in the last 30 min somehow.  Interesting.

My snide comment, which isn't wrong, is one of the comments you quote.  I don't appreciate you including an emotional tug at heartstrings to try to make me into some bad guy, based on a state's abbreviation.  Be a grown-up.*
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*and your failing to act like a grown up is not for mourning the loss of someone close to you, but because you interjected it from out of nowhere

Yes, it can work.

First and foremost, your handicap is not your average score. It's actually not even based on your score relative to par. It's based on your score relative to the course rating and slope. This converts your raw score into something called a differential. 

But the first thing is that the handicap is not based on your average differential. It's based on the average of only your best 8 differentials out of your last 20 rounds. So you really only play better than your handicap about 20% of the time, not 50%. The average score for most golfers on 18 holes is usually about 3 strokes worse than your differential.

So if the course rating were equal to par, a zero handicap would be expected to average about 3 over par. Which considering you've got 2.2 birdies (-2.2 strokes), 4.6 bogeys (+4.6 strokes), and 0.7 doubles (+1.4 strokes), according to Arccos data, a zero handicap averages 3.8 strokes over par.

Close enough for government work, given that I don't know the course ratings a "typical" Arccos zero handicap is playing from. For example one of our local courses, Tijeras Creek, from the back tees is par 72 and course rating of 73.7. So a zero handicap actually shooting even par would be a round that's 1.7 strokes better than their handicap, and ~4.7 strokes better than their average.

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too much typing for me - I'd have had to search for this to copy&paste