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- Handicap Question
- Golf Digest reader Donald G. Klein was one of the first to reply to Editor Jerry Tarde's request for suggestions and story ideas. Klein wants stories on handicapping, specifically on one question: Why do high...
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- Handicap Adjustment for Tees
- Golf Digest reader Dwight Morgan of Saphhire, N.C. writes with a question that comes up often among my playing partners, especially when they include women. Thank you for the article "What is a 10 Handicapper?"...
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- What's a Sandbagger?
- Nothing gets and keeps a golfer's juices flowing like talk of handicap abuse. Dean Knuth's reply to a question on beating one's handicap got to Golf Digest reader C.T. Brown. Dear Editor: I wish to...
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- The Genius of Handicaps?
- See the well-researched piece on handicapping by John Paul Newport in the Wall Street Journal this weekend. Newport, after a trip to Atlantic City, lauds the handicap system's power to level a Buddies trip playing...
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- Jack Nicholson and ESC (really)
- How do you get from Jack Nicholson to Equitable Stroke Control? I'm not sure, but reader Tim Fulton of Davie, Florida managed to do it and ask a good question at the same time: The...
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- The Secret(s) to Better Golf
- Who knew it would come on a Tuesday, not even during a major week. But today a scientist at Purdue University revelaed the secret to lower golf scores. As you may have suspected, it's about...
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- Is Equitable Stroke Control Equitable?
- For Tim Fulton of Davie, Florida, the U.S. Open Contest, and Guy Yocom's June-issue story in Golf Digest on what constitutes a 10-handicapper, unearthed a great deal of resentment about the USGA Handicap system. After...
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- What is a 10 Handicapper?
- When the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge is played at Torrey Pines on the eve of the U.S. Open, we'll see a test that is perfect in scale. A 10-handicapper trying to break 100 at...
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- US Open Contest Finalists
- I love this letter from Stewart Thomson of Newport Beach, California. In it he reports on a pre-test of the whole US Open contest: Can a 10-handicap golfer break 100 on the Open course under...
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- Tiger's handicap...and not his knee
- Alex Lavin, Highland Park, Ill., perhaps thinking that Tiger's knee injury makes him vulnerable, send this question. My friends and I have been engrossed in an argument over the past few days: The score Tiger...
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- US Open Contest and Torrey Pines Slope
- "You're really doing this? He's going to play the Open course? He won't be able to think straight...Tour pros can shoot in the 80s on an Open course. What does that say for a 7-handicap?"...
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- US Open Contest Handicaps
- Eric Silfer of West Chester, Pennsylvania, not far from where my 10-handicap friend Friedman lives and where, hopefully, he and I will play soon, has a problem with our US Open Contest Final Five choices:...
