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Originally Posted by JEFF4i  Sandbagging is existant anyway.
That is one of the largest arguments right now, is that it prevents sandbagging. How? People still do it plenty. So why not adapt the rules to those who are honest?
And "capable of playing" is largely subjective. As I said, capability is also relative to current situation. |
I guess my question would be, would you rather play against someones ability or immediate status. In the example of one making changes to their swing, they are making a choice to better their game even though it may have an initial impact to their game, not their average ability. Where under your scenario they could in fact play in a tournament with their old swing and actually take immediate benefit from doing so.
In that case I am not sure I could even consider them a sandbagger, as they simply used what they were entitled to.
It is true you are going to have sandbaggers either way, but I could easily see this unintentionally making sandbaggers out of people where that was not their intent.
In the same sense many people, myself definitely included, go through an occasional funk for maybe 3-4 round. There have been occasion where I shot well into the 100's for 2-3 rounds when I tried to tweek something, or for no reason at all, then moved back to my scoring ability and even in the 80's the next few round. If you lessen the criteria, those 100's would reflect on my handicap, when I am in fact capable of much more.
I would rather be forced to play up to what I am capable of in order to win, as opposed to simply taking advantage of a few bad rounds.