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Sandbagging, cheating and negligent handicapping discouraging club golfers

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Golf is the only sport that has a unique balancing system that makes it possible for golfers of different abilities, age and gender to compete against each other. Unfortunately, the now omnipresent cases of cheating and dishonesty, coupled with dereliction of duty by handicap managers, has resulted in submission of fake high scores that even Tiger Woods would not dream of, and is slowly killing the sport. 

Unless sanity is brought back to amateur golf, the sport is in danger of losing popularity due to apathy by the large number of golfers who now have no chance of standing on the podium due to the malady of bloated handicaps and wrong handicap management.

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