Swindle handicaps | Golf Monthly

Going back many years, our Seniors had Seniors Handicaps in addition to normal CONGU handicaps, and these were used in non-qualifiers (in those days CONGU didn't insist on every comp being a qualifier). They ran on a 6-month cycle and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd were docked 3, 2, and 1 shot. There was no remission for good conduct and you didn't revert to your normal handicap until the end of the 6-month cycle. I had a particularly good spell in one cycle and was playing off 3 come the last day of the cycle. It was a very cold day with frozen greens and the comp was a Bogey. On that day I set a never to be beaten record - minus 18 on a Bogey competition.