Youngstown, OH....anybody looking for playing partners

[swish16]

That's probably why people didn't sign up. Nothing like sandbagging on Saturday to get an easier flight on Sunday. You should be able to get a handicap without being a member somewhere. Most of the course pros will enter your score and get you an official handicap. I know a few places that do it for $25 around here. There is an amateur tour thing that plays in the tri state area that seems pretty decent. I can't think of the name of it now but its a traveling group that gets onto some pretty nice courses that aren't really open to the public. I got a HCP to play in some events but then changed jobs so it became almost impossible.

 

The Mahoning Valley one gets a lot of exposure and I think that is what drove the success. Its on the TV news and newspapers and on a lot of the scorecards. It just takes time to build momentum.

 

The Saturday scores flighting Sunday was actually a change they had just made in order to try and attract more people. I know this event did most of their advertising online social media and in the paper I brought up the of why no radio ads at least..I only found out about the tournament through the courses email blast they send out periodically..

 

I'll have to look into if there's a course around here that will let me do that

[Buddha]

You should be able to get a handicap without being a member somewhere.

 

TheGrint is one, and I'm sure there are other free official handicap programs.

[Hellstorm]

Any golf pro should be able to enter your scores into the USGA to get an official number; or they set you up to do it yourself. I think a lot of people still cheat the system just based on how much everybody complains about sandbaggers but I guess you have that everywhere.

 

Also, that traveling tour thing for this area is PGT Tour.....or Pittsburgh Golf Tour if you guys were interested. Its the one I couldn't think of the name of.