I feel for you there... My HS was blue collar
I played number one my junior and senior years and the scores would look like this for nine holes:
1: 37
2: 45
3: 47
...and so on...
At Huntingdon Valley's C Nine, I was the only one on the team to break 40.... and 50...
Kids were getting free golf and practice at the local muni, which was our home course, so they didn't care. At least they treated the course with respect and showed sportsmanship, but there was a lot of whining that things were too hard at times. Frustrating for a player like me, but everyone there became close friends and we still play together when we can.
We played an interesting Match Play Format that was basically a 12 hole Nassau. You got a point for winning the first six, the last six, and then the overall 12. The first six matches counted and then the last two were just for experience.
We would commonly lose by scores of 15-3, 15.5 - 2.5, or 17-1, 17.5-.5 with me picking up the points.
The problem with the format was qualifying for leagues was done in stroke play and a lot of kids would lower their score to qualify especially on our team. When you're playing a kid that can shoot 34 for nine holes and you normall shoot 45... it's easy to accurately have the match and say you shot a 40, so when we got to leagues... I'd sit pretty around 80 for 18 holes and smoe of our kids would be around 115.
But it was fun, and I miss it a lot...
