Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Caron's Patriots Talk Podcast. We're getting into the dead

period. Phil's going to go on a vacation. I'm going to play a ton of golf.

Actually, Phil, depressingly, my handicap is heading in the wrong direction. So for somebody who has a golf

simulator who actually had a putting green installed on the side yard, who already has like 36 rounds of golf in in the 2025 season,

I've got something called a soft cap applied to my handicap.

Do you know what that is?

I have no idea.

It's terrible news if you like golf,

if you want to be a good golfer.

Basically, my handicap has gone up so much in the calendar year from the lowest that the the the program basically says

okay you're getting bad too fast here and you're going to end up getting too many strokes from people

who are not getting worse so we're going to slow down we're going to end up getting too many strokes from people who are not getting worse. So we're going to slow down.

We're going to throttle your handicap.

So I was at a 7.5.

Now I'm going to 10.8.

Once you get to three strokes above where you were, they throttle you.

So I'm a soft cap guy.

So I'm going to get some good scores in real soon.

A lot of 88. I 88s. I love that.

I love that. So you've been so bad lately that the, the algorithm thinks that you might

actually be messing with, might actually maybe be messing with it a little bit.

They're afraid that I'm going to be cheap. Everybody has handicaps for different reasons.

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