Forum Profile Handicap Indices....

[chilepepper]

14.2 to 13.9. Of course yesterday's round was a Greek tragedy....95. Woke up with a sore rt. shoulder and couldn't follow through without pain

[Hacker James]

mine should drop a little soon as I get a couple of older scores out of the range of best 10 of most recent twenty. But then on, it will be a very slow decent and harder to maintain as I cross the breaking 80 threshold. Best score this year so far is 81. 

[phillyk]

13 minutes ago, DeadMan said:

We're going to enjoy all those strokes you have to give us at the Newport Cup!

I'd have to give him a few. I dropped to +1.4. I need to sandbag a bit, get it back to a 0 for the Cup. ;)

[saevel25]

My handicap is up to a 3.6

[cmj3212]

I'm sure its somewhere in this thread, but 100 pages is a lot to try to sift through. How does everyone track their handicap?  i dont belong to a club at this point but have been tracking all my rounds this year through GolfShot, which provides you with its handicap.  I have managed to go from roughly an 18 down to a 13-14 over the last month, but wasnt sure what they best way to go about tracking an actual handicap would be.

[DaveP043]

4 minutes ago, cmj3212 said:

 How does everyone track their handicap?

I think we have a wide variety.  I belong to a club, so mine is done through the USGA-run GHIN system.  I know others do as you do, use an internet-based handicap service.  Still others track their scores themselves.  Some of those guys may also include solo rounds or do some other things that are outside of the USGA requirements.  Still others use Game Golf, which I believe uses its own calculation method, not the USGA formula.  And of course, our members from overseas may use the system in effect where they live.

[Kalnoky]

I use GolfSoftware.com. I don't get to play very often with others so I just save my scorecards until I get 25 scores and then I input them. So basically I update my handicap figure only a couple of times a year.

I didn't see the point of paying the weekly fee for the USGA system through our men's club since I'm not competing in tournaments or planning a trip to St. Andrews. I will pay for it eventually just not now.

I'm sure a lot of guys are in the same boat.

 

[djake]

I use Golf.com to track mine

And I just met my first handicap goal since starting to play again.  I dropped below a 10!  I am now carrying a 7.4, it has been years, decades really since I was below a 10. 

Funny thing, I don't feel like I am a 7.4, I feel like I have so much more room for improvement

[JonMA1]

Up from 22 to 22.2.

[David in FL]

11 hours ago, Kalnoky said:

I use GolfSoftware.com. I don't get to play very often with others so I just save my scorecards until I get 25 scores and then I input them. So basically I update my handicap figure only a couple of times a year.

I didn't see the point of paying the weekly fee for the USGA system through our men's club since I'm not competing in tournaments or planning a trip to St. Andrews. I will pay for it eventually just not now.

I'm sure a lot of guys are in the same boat.

 

What weekly fee?  You can get a valid USGA handicap for right around $30 a year...

[iacas]

Just now, David in FL said:

What weekly fee?  You can get a valid USGA handicap for right around $30 a year...

Also, let me point out that juniors (< 18, maybe <= 18) get a GHIN handicap for free.

I'm not saying you're a junior, @Kalnoky… just saying it for the benefit of others (or the children of some others).

[David in FL]

5 minutes ago, iacas said:

Also, let me point out that juniors (< 18, maybe <= 18) get a GHIN handicap for free.

I'm not saying you're a junior, @Kalnoky… just saying it for the benefit of others (or the children of some others).

Huh.  Even I didn't know that!

[Kalnoky]

20 minutes ago, David in FL said:

What weekly fee?  You can get a valid USGA handicap for right around $30 a year...

Our men's club collects a fee every week to enter our scores into the "official" system, which is done via an ancient computer in the clubhouse. I never looked into doing it on my own. They've always said to me, "this is how you get your GHIN". So, I just took their word for it. 

[iacas]

Just now, Kalnoky said:

Our men's club collects a fee every week to enter our scores into the "official" system, which is done via an ancient computer in the clubhouse. I never looked into doing it on my own. They've always said to me, "this is how you get your GHIN". So, I just took their word for it. 

It doesn't cost more than $25 to $30/year.

You might be getting ripped off a little.

[DaveP043]

10 hours ago, Kalnoky said:

Our men's club collects a fee every week to enter our scores into the "official" system, which is done via an ancient computer in the clubhouse. I never looked into doing it on my own. They've always said to me, "this is how you get your GHIN". So, I just took their word for it. 

Once you've been set up for a handicap within an USGA-authorized club, its actually your responsibility to enter all of your scores.  If your local association uses GHIN, you can use the on-site computer, or you can get the GHIN app for your phone, or you can enter them on a computer through www.ghin.com.  While your men's league may have stricter rules, your local club cannot require you to turn in scorecards in most circumstances, you enter your own scores.  As others have said, usually the enrollment in a USGA-authorized handicap system costs around $30 per year.

[todgot]

Index is down to 9.5 from 9.7.  Started the year at 10.6. 

[Hacker James]

On 8/15/2017 at 8:27 AM, DaveP043 said:

I think we have a wide variety.  I belong to a club, so mine is done through the USGA-run GHIN system.  I know others do as you do, use an internet-based handicap service.  Still others track their scores themselves.  Some of those guys may also include solo rounds or do some other things that are outside of the USGA requirements.  Still others use Game Golf, which I believe uses its own calculation method, not the USGA formula.  And of course, our members from overseas may use the system in effect where they live.

As I have previously stated, ad nauseam,  I am one of those who track my own with a home made spreadsheet. It gives me the ability to enter solo rounds and the flexibility to create "what-if" scenarios. The method I use, conforms to GHIN system. I do not compete or enter any tournaments. It simply meets my needs.  I no longer own a smart phone so I do not feel the need to have a commercial GHIN system or be in their database. I would consider a tablet however. 

[DaveP043]

On 8/15/2017 at 9:46 AM, DaveP043 said:

More ridiculous every month.  1.8, lowest ever.

Phew, finally the plummet has stopped.  I'm up just a couple of tenths to 2.1.  With three more revisions before the Newport Cup, I wonder how high I can get it.