What's average?

I suppose I ought to define what I mean by average. Up to the beginning of last year I guess I had played about 30, 18-hole rounds of golf. I decided it was about time I did something about my 23 handicap, so started playing the competitions on a Saturday morning at Mapperley. As I have said before, it's not the easiest course, so I fairly immediately went up to 24...
The pic is our winter league team - L-R Me, Peter, Roy Maltby and Eddie Robson

At our course, we don't hold qualifiers in the winter, so I was able to play all last winter without any adjustments, and at the start of this year was averaging 92-94 for a round, off the back tees.

Hit a rash of form a month or so back and started shooting 84-85, so came down pretty immediately to 19.4. Never had a teenage handicap in my life and I'm thrilled. Short-lived though - had a bad round on Saturday and shot 94 again (two lost balls, pulled the damn things left, I never hit left!), for the extra 0.1 on the hcp, so back to 20. I WILL prevail, though, and you can read about it here!