SamSpayed:
It's certainly any player's prerogative to define and pursue their own accomplishments. Many in this thread have done exactly that. Players have posted about their XP achievements, their hole-in-ones, and other things. Still others appear to take great joy in lowering their averages by playing endless rounds on insanely easy courses like WC B9, PB F9, BPB F9, and easy-tee CC courses.
Understood and agree, I know some find their fun in shooting middle of the road scores on courses they think are challenging. (realizing one persons challenge may seem easy to another)
It does seem illogical to equate those courses you named with Red Tee CC tourneys...TPC is the only club ive ever been in that ran those, IIRC the averages on red tees were super low.
Maybe I am remembering them wrong, but it seemed like they were much lower than you could ever get in a real ranked round on any course due to turning par 5s into 4s and 4s into 3s...
SamSpayed: But just because somebody thinks they accomplished something, it doesn't mean that we're obligated to congratulate them for it... especially if we don't feel like what they accomplished was anything special (or difficult).
Ya...Our response wasn't as to why no one congratulated someone, more of a if you bothered to reply why would it be to devalue rather than just say "cool".
As far as special or difficult? We have no idea but we tend to agree with HP that very few of us could do this with same setup , which tends to say it is somewhat special and there is some level of difficulty in doing this.
We dont think having a kid is special or difficult, but when someone says I just birthed a child we say congrats, as opposed to "Well, Anyone could have an ugly kid if they wanted one"