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**soprofaxelbis** · 10-12-2009, 04:45 PM

The only person you're playing against is yourself. That's why you can never stop striving to improve (or at least hoping to). It's why people like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson practise. It's also why we have the handicapping system, which IMO makes our sport the best of all of them. You can't play tennis with Roger Federer or football against the Saints or hit a Mariano Rivera cut fastball. Not on a competitive level, no matter what. In golf, if you get the handicapping right, you can have a decent match with the best in the world, even if you can't break 100.

In any case, my goals are set against myself. My problem is that I was a lot better 10 years ago than I am now. If I played a match against myself from 10 years ago, I'd lose 10 times out of 10. Which is infuriating, because it means I very rarely walk off the golf course pleased with my score.

10-12-2009, 04:45 PM	#5
soprofaxelbis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 644 Senior Member	The only person you're playing against is yourself. That's why you can never stop striving to improve (or at least hoping to). It's why people like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson practise. It's also why we have the handicapping system, which IMO makes our sport the best of all of them. You can't play tennis with Roger Federer or football against the Saints or hit a Mariano Rivera cut fastball. Not on a competitive level, no matter what. In golf, if you get the handicapping right, you can have a decent match with the best in the world, even if you can't break 100. In any case, my goals are set against myself. My problem is that I was a lot better 10 years ago than I am now. If I played a match against myself from 10 years ago, I'd lose 10 times out of 10. Which is infuriating, because it means I very rarely walk off the golf course pleased with my score.
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