If they are big tournaments with good prizes, then you start assuming other people are sandbagging and therefor you have to as well if you want to win anything. Very few, if any, amateurs are going to really shoot below their true handicap (which is reflecting your golf on a good day) in a tournament environment and yet the net winners are always in the red.
Yeah he’s a cheater. Those guys may be cutting deals with whoever buys them in a Nassau.
My prior club had nearly a 50k Nassau for the member guest last year which I think is enough cash to really incentivize bad behaviour.
High stakes for me would be losing more than $100 in a round 
I’m sure that’s what because that is the format of one of the big tournaments they play in. The finished first three years ago and won a shit ton of money. The finished second this year.
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Only cheaters don’t post every round.
dang. you caught me red handed
Eh, I’ll skip posting blow up rounds where I stopped trying, but that only artificially lowers my handicap.
Not posting low rounds is messed up.
I am in the same boat. Due to not posting some blowups, taking laterals on lost balls in money games and some other casual rules I am probably artificially low maybe a stroke.
My personal feeling is that net events that aren’t flighted are a bit silly. I still play them but it is 100% for fun and to network. If you look at who wins those, it usually has someone playing well beyond what is probable given an accurate handicap.
Flighted events with handicaps “docked” 25-40% are far and away my favorite and are the only thing that get me going like a good money game.
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