Possible Clues:

• Handicap where expected to make cut?
• Make your mark as a non-runner?
• Beginning to react to irritation
• The Devil improvised
• Deal with itch - cancel entry
• That's no handicap on the course
• Insignificant injury
• Withdraw from match on account of injury
• It's no handicap, but it's so irritating
• Golf handicap of zero strokes