John,
If you can show where I said that about Chambers Bay, then I'll eat my hat. I hope the roads you build have more integrity than the stuff you manufacture for this website.
No worries though John, I forgive you for your slip ups.
Looks like my reading comprehension was off. Sorry that you didn't play the first six holes at Chambers six under. Please keep the hat, I've seen your doo.
"I was scheduled to play the Open Preview at Chambers Bay on Sunday. So I took time to practice Thursday and Friday. On Saturday I was schedule to play in a "6-6-6", 6 holes partner best ball, 6 holes scramble, 6 holes Chapman. I hate nonstandard formats, so seldom play them. Played with on of my regular partners, turned in our score having no idea how we did having next to no familiarity with typical scoring, mid week my partner calls to say we won the thing by a considerable amount. Since it was not flighted, it was the biggest prize I have ever won as we split $350 pro shot credit. I guess that was my personal best as my partner thanked me for carrying him to victory as I was 6 under net on my own ball the first six holes.
I guess I had another best as I birdied three in a row (gross) for the only time in my life in our club match play."
Here is a link to an article about a bagger from my home town. He also claims it was just luck.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/08/30/3679224/leader-disqualified-another-named.html
The World Am is a joke. A friend of mine (one of the best Senior Ams in the country) went as a 0.9 one year when he wasn't playing well- and the furthest from a sandbagger I know- shot 69 in the 3rd round playing in the lowest index flight. He was disqualified because the official told him "I'm also a 1 and I can't shoot 69".
"For Brennan, a 66-year-old small publishing company owner who is a member of two courses, the victory was sweet redemption. The 18.3-handicap had won his flight one other time in his handful of World Ams and was in contention in the championship playoff before making what he remembers to be a 19 on his 13th hole.
“That was my worst day in golf and this is my best,” Brennan said. “I left in such a huff I never thought I’d come back, but I was right back the next year. … This is truly amazing. My heart is swelling. It’s like, ‘How did I get here?’ That’s what I keep asking myself.”
Brennan nearly played his way out of the title Friday as well, when he took a 7 on the par-4 18th hole for a net double bogey that dropped him from net 12 under to 10 under.
“I was trying to play a little conservatively because I’ve played this course three times in my lifetime and there are three of my golf balls in that lake out there [to the left side of the hole],” Brennan said. “It was almost like I was playing not to lose instead of to win, and that is not my forte. I want to win or nothing.”
Read more here:
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/08/30/3679224/leader-disqualified-another-named.html#storylink=cpyThey took the trophy away from the guy who used to have game and finally put a round together, and gave it to this guy? I thought handicaps were supposed to level things, but yet this guy won his flight twice out of five or less times? This is the guy I would be investigating.