If you can’t beat ‘em, the saying goes, join ‘em (together). Not content with the number of competitors that could be drawn to events that featured wide-open handicap ranges, regional tours began to host double brackets, initially separating higher and lower handicaps which would only merge near the end of a given event. It gave the lower-handicapped competitors an opportunity to get their feet wet (in the ‘pool,’ so to speak) before tackling higher-ranked competitors. That worked for a while until some lower-ranked competitors began to get a little discouraged by their ongoing inability to compete effectively in the latter […]
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