[tim chapman]

With a 5 hcp you must already have skills that many of us only can dream about. But if TGM and this site can bring you up to the next level, you'll be a scratch player in the forseeable future I would think...

btw i'd suggest not being too respectful of what you might think are decent hcps. From my experience, a 7/8/9 hcppr is 90% operating on a wing & a prayer & most of the time a 5 hcp player only has a rough idea what the hell he is doing. That should be an encouragement to us, because if we can truly gain control over the process we can get in front of that.