handicap question - giving strokes- please help!!!

[Sandwedge74]

Hi - belong to myscorecard.com. 3 friends and i are a regular foursome. they like to bet $5 round and give points and so forth for winner. I am not much a of gambler myself but I go along cuz its my friends. Anyways - here is my question:
on myscorecard there is section where you calculate the COURSE handicap based the slope of the courses - based on their website - i would have to give the 20 handicap 7 strokes accross the board cuz I am 13.8.
7 strokes seems outrageous to me - does that sound right?? I have to give the 22 handicap 10 stokes !!!!! I dont get to choose holes where they given or anything - just across the board! I am suspect of this...it just sounds ridiculous to me. Can anyone here confirm or un confirm that this proper??
of course my friends swear its right and holed myscorecard up like its the golf bible - and ofcourse they do because I am the sap giving strokes

so what say yee????

[Shindig]

What is the slope rating of the course? Yes, it makes sense, because most courses get tougher the higher your handicap is, and your friends may well need the strokes.

Consider an extreme example to see why you don't just take the handicap difference exactly: if a 10 handicap and a 20 handicap were playing a course, as it is set up for the U.S. Open, against one another, would 10 strokes be enough to make it a reasonably even match?

[golfunit]

Make the higher handicap play you even up sometimes. It's good for him, and the only way he will get better.

[n3xt]

Sandwedge 74,
It all makes sense except for your 'across the board' comment. Each hole at your course should have a handicap number from 1 to 18. Generally the odd numbers are on the front 9 and the even numbers on the back. These are the relative difficulties of the holes in relation to the others. Your friend with 7 strokes would get his strokes on handicap holes 1 through 7 only. So it shouldn't be so bad for you not to be able to choose the holes as they are laid out to you by the course. Your friend only gets his strokes on the 7 hardest holes assuming an even distribution of difficulty between the front and back 9. Also remember that both your friends handicaps and yours are generally based on the best 10 scores out of your last 20, so shooting much better than their handicap should be a rarity. As they improve, it will get tougher for them if they are honest in submitting their scores and factor in ESC when submitting.

Have fun, and play some closest to the pins on the par 3s for beer. It always brings out the best in me and my playing partners.

Oh, and feel lucky, you'd be giving me close to 30 strokes over 18 holes. But I am improving and the handicap index is coming down.

[Saks]

Oh, and feel lucky, you'd be giving me close to 30 strokes over 18 holes. But I am improving and the handicap index is coming down.

n3xt, if you are a 26.8 and sandwedge74 is a 13.8, he would only be giving you 13 shots on most courses. Not close to 30.

[n3xt]

You are absolutely right Saks. I was thinking of my own strokes only.