If you’re gonna use “gui” like the rest of us fuckers, the least you can do is hit the fucking caps lock.
Fucker.
Unless you want everyone to think you’re talking about graphic user interface, which is entirely possible from you, you fucker.
:-*
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I think he was shouting
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I shot a PB 81 on Monday. I shot 97 today.
Case > point
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Seconded
I wish I could remember all you guis’ faces.
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I want a thread for just your stories. No one else can post in it.
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That’s what you’re supposed to do. As long as you stay focused, you can typically come in around 70-74 most days.
@Billy_Baroo, I legit admire your (gross) round. It might be the lowest anyone has gone (course difficulty being considered) in any Refuge/NLU event.
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You know damn well how I meant it!
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My point: I don’t think @chefcycle’s personal best is 81. I bet it closer to 71. Much closer. And you did it Monday? Was it in a Monday Qualifier, or just a Monday hit-n-giggle?
Frankly, guise, I was @chefcycle…I know how it happens that you shoot in the 90s for a while then when you get back up on your skis, you start rolling. I am not calling him a sandbagger. In a short amount of time I have assessed the man to be a beast. I’d like a shot at the @chefcycle’s belt. It would be an honor to play with him. I think I know where he’s from, who he knows, where he worked and who he’s played with. I don’t know if I’m better than him, but I think I’m close.
You better get way south of the Minnesota River is you want to stay out of my wheelhouse, friends. Way south.
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It sure seems like @chefcycle is just as good as he needs to be. (Whos really watching the leaderboard at a refuge meetup?)
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Yuo guise want a story? OK…
Club near my home in LA…Buddy playing in member/guest. A friend of his invites a producer from another nearby club. The producer is famous. Like, you’ve-all-seen-his-shows lvel famous. The producer is a 15 handicap. On the day both balls count, the producer shoots a NET 59, my buddy shoots a net 74 or something. They win a lot of money, close to $10K. About two drinks into the coacktail party, the pro comes to my buddy and asks for the envelopes of cash. Turns out, the producer’s score history was a little weird for one reason or another, but enough of a question mark for the pro to say “you’re both out. Sorry.”
The next Monday my buddy gets a letter. 30 day suspension from club.
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That’s heavy, man.
Exactly the type of anecdotal evidence one would expect in a kangaroo court
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There are two sides Earl.
The side that is AOK with sandbagging, and the side with the pitchforks.
Here’s another…
(I’ll name names because I’ll fight anyone who feels froggy…)
I was at Oak Ridge working as an assistant. A member calls “Golf Shop, Laz speaking.” and Mr Marks says “hey, Laz, one of my best clients is playing in the member guest. He doesn’t have a handi-” and I just go right into my schpiel. “Sorry, Mr. Marks, but no handicap means your guest plays as a zero.” And of course, “But! But! That’s no fun for us then! He always shoots around 90! Just make him an 18 so it’s fun!” And of course, because I came up in the School of Terry Hogan and John Miller, I stick to the facts. “Sorry, he’s a scratch, Mr. Marks.” And Mr. Marks goes bananas on the phone, leaves his home like 2 miles away and comes in the shop…We had seen this movie before. He walks in, and John and I are behind the counter.
“He’s a scratch” says John.
“I am sick of Laz being short with me on the phone and blah blah blah blah”
Anyway, he goes off as a scratch and I break three or four tees down the grip holes so they rattle in Mr. Marks’ club shafts for a few weeks just to calm his nerves. The guy shoots a million the first day and Mr Marks comes in the shop and just throws the scorecard down “HERE, LAZ. ARE YOU HAPPY!” That night I bend all of his wedges maybe 2 degrees stronger, so yeah, I was pretty happy if we’re being honest.
Fast forward to the next year. I was gone and living in the desert. Mr Marks’ brings back the same client/buddy. A friend of mine who’s a member calls me “guess who just shot net 60 at the Oak Ridge member/guest?” (Oak Ridge is hard. Only 2 par 5s. Par 70. This was a round.) You guessed it. Phil Marks’ buddy. And here’s the BEST part- the new pro (who got the job over your truly) gave the guest an 18 handicap. No GHIN. No Yahoo Golf (whatever that service was back in 2004) Nothing. Just a member’s “good word” so they could all “have fun.” The new pro lasted only one year.
So in this case (and there are dozens more) @earlsmithiii, I was there for part of it. But I guess since you’re inferring my “anecdotes” don’t meet your high standards of proof, I’ll just fuck off then and go to a Little League game or something.
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Didn’t I already get rid of you when you tried to come at me with numbers and I proved with math that this was bound to happen at every few Refuge meetups whether you like it or not? The nerds in the math thread backed me up and everything.
Take a seat.
(we’re all still having fun, right?)
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If by “fun” you mean waiting for the bloodshed, fuck yeah we are.
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We all know statistics can say whatever we want them to.
Every time it makes me think of South Park 
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I’m very excite!
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