How are decimals in handicaps used?

[vmsea]

Person A has 20.3 HC
person B is scratch

Person A gets 1 shot on every hole, plus 2 on the 1st and 2nd hardest holes..
what about the 0.3?

Thanks!

[sean_miller]

Person A has 20.3 HC

Course handicaps are integers - no decimal places.

[Fairway_CY]

The players handicap index (20.3 in your example) is used to calculate the course handicap.

Suppose the course and tees you were playing from had a USGA slope of 129. The formula is ((Handicap Index * Slope)/113).

The calculation would be ((20.3 * 129)/113) resulting in 23.2 which is rounded to an even 23.

So Person A would get 2 strokes on each of the 5 lowest numbered handicap holes (1 thru 5) and then they would get 1 stroke on each of the remaining holes.

Hope that helps.

CY

[vmsea]

ahh i see ok. thank you

one follow up..

23.2 rounds down to 23

what about 23.8.. round up to 24? or always round down to nearest integer?

thanks again!

[Fairway_CY]

Yes... you round as you normally would... 23.1 - 23.4 round to 23 and 23.5 - 23.9 round to 24.

CY