Banditry in Reverse Syndrome

So we have all heard of the "bandit" who claims to be off a higher handicap than they are. But what of the "bandit in reverse syndrome" - what have you come across that made you giggle..?

The kind of stuff like:

a) the basic cheat whose 6 becomes a 4 so too break 100.

b) the "it's winter so I give myself 5 shots" kind of mentality.

c) I was put off there - do't count it and throw another ball down.

d) Always breaking 90 or 80 when playing alone.

e) My last club/society handicap was 20 - actually 22 but 20 sounds better.

f) these clubs are sh$te "this week". I usually play to 16 honest..

These are just some terms/sayings I have heard of - are there any good ones you have happened upon....?

NWOT.........

Ahh yes, this is a practice undertaken by the ''I will get down to single figure h.c. in a year'' group of plonkers who's game is'nt quite improving.

Cultivating a h.c. you can never play to just to look good is something I just can't understand, of all the cheats in golf though I think these are the harmless kind because they rarelly win anything....

I think that perhaps you havnt realised yet that there are some truly aweful players around (like me) who every once in a while get the lucky bounces and shoot a goodscore. Thus crucifying their handicaps which they cannot play to.

Thus im now in the sorry situation where i tell people that i play of 21 but go round in 111 as happens nearly every month.

Last year i shot an 83 one week and a 109 the following. I played 30 games last year and only played to my handicap twice and under it once. Am i Golfshakes most inconsistent player?

Don't see the point in anything like that myself. You eventually get found out. If you carry it on longer than than you need to look like a total plonker & have to change clubs to stop feeling embarresed every time you walk through the clubhouse door. 

 Sometimes you just have to face the fact you aint that good & live with it.

 Just to add I sometimes get accused of being a 'standard' bandit purely on the fact I can drive reasonably well. Pity these guys don't comment on my fairway & green play when we 're standing on the next tee.

Someone I knew took up golf 2 years ago, bought all the kit, joined a club and had lots of (very expensive) lessons and played about 20 rounds in a month and submitted the best ones for his handicap calculation.  They set him a handicap of 11 which he was really crowing about!  He's since moved clubs and plays off 18 (and thats still too low I reckon).  Still, makes it easy to beat him.