My memory is a bit hazy, but I was off 3 briefly under the old old system in the late 90's. 4 was about the lowest I played off for any length of time. I never committed the time to short game practice to get any lower than that, so I tended to hit it great tee to green, but hardly ever scrambled a par when I missed a GIR.

Restarted playing 6 months ago and am back in to single figures again, after drifting out to 14 while I sorted myself out. I don't hit it anywhere near as well or as far as I used to, but my short game is improving, so I'm getting better scores.

I'm playing off 8 now, but would like to get it down another couple to around 5-6 as that's what I feel like I should be off.