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How high do you need to be to have high handicap status?
alstaxi
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If there is a low handicap bench mark there needs to a high one, or not?
cogolfer1
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# 1    7/5/2012 3:48:52 PM   
If you can't break 100, that'd be a high handicapper IMO. About 28 or 30 for a handicap I would bet.


Dandy
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# 2    7/5/2012 4:23:06 PM   

If you can't break 100, that'd be a high handicapper IMO. About 28 or 30 for a handicap I would bet.


Totally subjective. Playing by the rules most guys wouldn't break 100 Ethan. My subjective opinion is that once you start to get into that 20 handicap range, you're a high handicapper


Mark Simmons
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# 3    7/5/2012 7:17:05 PM   
The problem is there is cache to being a low handicap player. Who wants to be known as a high handicap player?


njgolfer
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# 4    7/5/2012 8:08:04 PM   
I always considered someone who couldn't break 100 a high handicapper. Now my wife recently broke 50 for nine holes but I would still call her a high handicapper just by the skills she exhibits.


Duckhunter
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# 5    7/6/2012 9:04:51 AM   
The over 20's handicap I think are high handicaps. How ever there are a lot of 10 to 20 handicaps that are high handicaps. Why they will drop a 2nd ball and play it, take that 5 foot putt and call it good. move their ball before hitting. true handicap is very hard to find. That would be anyone who bends the rules of the game even a little.


Robert Premeaux Jr.
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# 6    7/6/2012 5:01:53 PM   
19 and over


Mark Simmons
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# 7    7/6/2012 9:43:08 PM   
I think it's like the question: "At what age are you considered 'middle-aged.'" The older you get the higher the number.


David Satchell
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# 8    7/8/2012 12:06:54 PM   
Great question. Does that mean there is no discriminater between high, mid, and low? In local tournaments, I noticed 12 HCP was the difference between A flight and B flight.


# 9    7/9/2012 12:38:54 PM   
If you have a handicap you should only record scores that were accomplished playing strictly by the rules.
Anyone who is playing around bogey golf, and playing by the rules should consider themselves a golfer.
The handicap is designed to make everyone competetive when playing with a wide range of skill level golfers. When playing "net" games everyone is on a level playing field and a golfer with an 18 index is just as liable to win the dollar as a golfer with a 2 index.


David Satchell
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# 10    7/13/2012 9:10:14 AM   
Well, I. guess there's no true answer to your question. It must be subjective as to what level a handicap one is. The golf channel is always referring to a high, mid and low handicap. You may want to pose the question there.