It's because it was a long period of time, I stop playing so much and never practiced anymore. I was meant to be a trainee professional golfer, but blew my opportunity.Nice. Surprised GA allowed you a handicap of 8 after previously being +2. Did you get a medical exemption? When I came back from a 10yr+ hiatus I had to take my previous handicap, and they'd only manually adjust if I provided medical certs etc.