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It's time handicap committees were cut from captains

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Before the introduction of the CONGU handicapping system, it was not uncommon for the golf captain to take one look at a golfer’s swing and decide that his or her handicap should be lower.

There were many tales of golfers whose handicaps were chopped as soon as they beat the captain of the day in a match and especially if they happened to have made some money from them. To those captains, this was a sign that a golfer was an asymptomatic handicap sandbagger.

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