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Originally Posted by 76bearsfly
We have to putt everything out and post all scores. Real simple. If we don't, the integrity of the handicap system is compromised and there is no a level playing field. This simple, bright line rule is the essence of the game.
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The rules do not require that as an absolute. You can take an "X" on a hole and still turn in the card with the score that would most likely have been made. And if you are putting for a 10, it would have to be adjusted for ESC anyway, so why waste your time and make the group behind you wait on yet another meaningless stroke if you don't have to.
I play by the rules, but with the guys I play with most often, we usually play some form of match, but with the proviso that the cards get returned for handicap, so when a putt or a hole is conceded, we still mark the most likely score that the player would have made had he finished out the hole, as provided for in Section 4-1 of the USGA Handicap Manual.