I DID have fun
Agree
I DID work on it
Agree again
to find that I started out at a distinct disadvantage from the start is the pisser
Now this is where we diverge. Like Jasper and `/anick, had this happened
to me, I would see the funny side of it, laugh at myself, shake my
fist in the general direction of the person one stroke ahead of me
on the leaderboard and swear to get even next time. :-)
It's only a game after all.
So perhaps my concerns aren't "rubbish", eh?
What I said "rubbish" to was your assertion that the competition
was essentially a test of knowledge of ancient romanic magical
formulae and not a test of cleverness and coding skill.
I found that claim to be insulting to all the golfers who worked
so hard and so deviously to shave off just one more stroke.
Now, if you are suggesting that, armed with Ton's magical romanic
formula, you could have somehow swept majestically past the Golfic
Emporer Tonius Hospelius to claim the $350 bounty, I will happily
walk down the main street of Chicago in my underwear, swinging a
five iron, shouting "That Lester guy is talking rubbish again!". :-)