You are the single best 7.57 handicap on the planet.
Did I miss something? When did the USGA start handicapping to the 1/100th of a stroke?
I've been keeping my stats for ages (started with Lotus, now on Excel) using the same system as my local association's EZLinks. The figure I posted is what my spreadsheet generated. I'll go back and format the cell properly to a single decimal point so as not to seem presumptuous or offend this site's insistence on precision. Done. My index is 7.6.
To the flatterers, you must not have seen me play over the last several years, or you are planning retirement on our future money matches. The chaps on both teams at the Buda would suggest, some gleefully, that the 7.8 is a vanity handicap. My last 10 scores- 94, 83, 82, 89, 100, 80, 83, 85, 84, 76 tell the story. But for the flaws of the American handicap system and one lucky round at the end of the year, my handicap would have been around 8.4.
As to the money match angle, new-Age high-brow economics have rendered that impossible. Unless, of course, my friend Sean Arble and others of his ilk have devised a long term plan that will turn my sow's ear into a silk purse.