5-10 Handicappers

[Fourputt]

The last 20 scores that affect my handicap. We are a week and a half away from the next revision for my association.

I 7/14/08 85 69.4/120 14.7
I 7/9/0887 69.4/12016.6
H 6/19/0890 69.4/12019.4
I 6/16/0887 69.4/12016.6
* I 6/4/0885 69.4/12014.7
I 6/3/0887 69.4/12016.6
* H 5/22/0882 69.4/12011.9
* I 5/18/0886 71.5/12712.9
AI 5/17/0891 71.5/12717.4
* I 5/12/0885 69.4/12014.7
T 5/10/0892 69.4/12021.3
* H 4/30/0881 69.4/12010.9
AI 4/29/0891 70.4/11919.6
* I 4/28/0886 69.4/12015.6
T 4/20/0887 69.4/12016.6
* T 4/19/0881 66.4/11114.9
I 4/18/0886 69.4/12015.6
I 4/15/0886 69.4/12015.6
* I 4/12/0883 69.4/12012.8
* I 4/8/0879 69.4/1209.0

The British and Australian systems work when all players are members of a club. Here in the US you can maintain a handicap even if you don't belong to a club by joining as an associate. In that way your handicap is maintained without the necessity of paying for a costly club membership.

In my case, I'm a member of a Men's club at a public golf course, and we don't have the luxury of having weekly medals or comps. We hold 15 tournaments a season, plus 5 match play tournaments which run the entire season long. As a busy public facility we are lucky to get that many play dates, and getting open time slots to play weekly medals just isn't going to happen. With the US system it gives a great many golfers the opportunity to maintain a handicap who wouldn't have that chance of we were locked into the type of system that you have. It also makes our handicaps more portable, as they can easily be applied to courses other than our home base.

[Anand]

This system which equals our system in Germany makes it incredible difficult to reach scratch or beyond when you only get 0.1 per stroke you underplay your hcp once you reached 4hcp. You basically need to shoot 40 under par (of your current hcp) to get to 0 and never play worse, which of course is impossible!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the system you describe, you have to shoot 40 under par across all of your rounds. For instance, if you are 4-handicap and you shoot 10 rounds this month at even-par, you have shot 40 strokes below your handicap. And if they do a monthly adjustment, you would be at scratch. Similarly, if you shot 20 rounds at two-over that month, you would be cut 40 x 0.1 = 4 shots to scratch.

Or am I getting it wrong? //Anand

[kafka01]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the system you describe, you have to shoot 40 under par across all of your rounds. For instance, if you are 4-handicap and you shoot 10 rounds this month at even-par, you have shot 40 strokes below your handicap. And if they do a monthly adjustment, you would be at scratch. Similarly, if you shot 20 rounds at two-over that month, you would be cut 40 x 0.1 = 4 shots to scratch.

First - only rounds in tournaments count - so on your local course you might play a tourney ever 1 1/2 on average. After each tournament you hand in a scorecard. We mostly play stableford system. Lets take the case of a 4hcp and assume his hcp is level with the course rating so is doesnt get any strokes. He shoots a 72 this day (40 stablefords) - his new handicap is 3.6. Next time he shoots a 72 again - his new handicap 3.2. Next time he shoots 76 (35 stablefords) - nothing happens to his handicap Next time he shoots 77 (34 stablefords) - his new handicap 3.3 (+0.1 - maximum that the handicap increases where 34 stablefords is the limit) So every handicap is calculated after every tournament and adjusted and registered with the golf association. And the next time you play you play with your new handicap already. So in my case e.g - i had 10.2 on Sunday - shot 42 stablefords (6over par) and had to play with 9.0 today. When your home course is though and wont allow to go really low (i calc. the average of the EPD-tour players who made the cut this year and they shot 72.1 as avg. and they played much better than last year) it just takes endless to reach scratch. From all our best amateurs i NEVER saw a round better than 2 under par - and some of them are plus hcp - so go figure...

[Doctorfro]

Click "my scorecards" button below. 80 or better last five rounds.

[Doctorfro]

Click "my scorecards" button below. 80 or better last five rounds.

Make that six rounds now. 77 today.