Lay litigants: Golf handicap dispute went to Supreme Court

Michael Clifford has found many people ditch the legal experts and fight their own case in court. Tom Talbot is one of those people... 

TOM Talbot had been a member of the Hermitage Golf Club for 40 years when the trouble began. He was a retired insurance official, and avid golfer at the club, in Lucan, Co Dublin.

He set about improving his handicap. This is the number of strokes allocated based on ability and means that more shots can be taken to reach the hole than the person’s true level of play would allow.