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David in FL

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I'm up to 15.6. Been losing strokes (and balls) all over the course lately.

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I finally have a legitimate handicap index (at least I believe so). I've been posting all rounds that were compliant and finally have 5 for the season. It will go up as I continue to post because

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Down to a 2.7 thanks to some good tournament scores recently. In fact 9 of the 10 scores that count for my handicap have the tournament "T" beside them.

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I moved from +0.7 to +1.  My intent was to move closer to 0 for the Cup.  I don't know what happened...

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I haven't been playing long enough to even think about a handicap yet but I do use my average score as a yard stick to track my progress. Not sure I would ever make it official if you can just work it out yourself online, don't think I could justify the several hundred pounds it would cost to join a club in order to get it. I Suppose if I wanted to enter any tournament that would be different

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  On 10/1/2017 at 3:43 PM, phillyk said:

I moved from +0.7 to +1.  My intent was to move closer to 0 for the Cup.  I don't know what happened...

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Went from 11.9 to 10.8 thanks to a couple rounds in the mid 70s and no rounds in the 90s.

Really starting to see the evolvr lessons paying off. Will have to play really solid golf in the next month or two to get this into single digits this season, but definitely should get there next year.

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I don't repost mine that often, because I forget it quite often, and then it always takes me a while to remember where you update the index.

Had a few bad rounds that offset my great (for me) rounds of 79 and had handicap slide back up.  With the shorter and shorter days, not sure have enough time to get it down to single digit before the season ends up here and the courses shut down.

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8.2 down from 8.4 the last two revisions and 9.7 in the middle of August when I first started keeping it.

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On my profile, I put mine as 20 as a guess. But I just used an online calculator (golfsoftware.com) plugging in my last 9 rounds and it came back with 14.8. I'm in the bogey golfer range. Is that number viable?

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  On 10/21/2017 at 5:53 PM, Slugox said:

On my profile, I put mine as 20 as a guess. But I just used an online calculator (golfsoftware.com) plugging in my last 9 rounds and it came back with 14.8. I'm in the bogey golfer range. Is that number viable?

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It is, but a bit less accurate due to the limited number of rounds you've entered.

 With 9 rounds, your index is calculated using your 3 lowest scores (actually differentials).   Once you have a full 20 scores entered, your index is calculated using your lowest 10 scores of the last 20 scores that are entered. 

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3-Wood: Titleist 910F;  15* Diamana Kai'li
Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw
Wedges: Scratch 51-11 TNC grind, Vokey SM-5's;  56-14 F grind and 60-11 K grind
Putter: Scotty Cameron Kombi S
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  On 10/21/2017 at 11:39 PM, David in FL said:

It is, but a bit less accurate due to the limited number of rounds you've entered.

 With 9 rounds, your index is calculated using your 3 lowest scores (actually differentials).   Once you have a full 20 scores entered, your index is calculated using your lowest 10 scores of the last 20 scores that are entered. 

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Yep, awhile back, since only three lowest differentials were used, I could have claimed to have been in nearly single status status and the mediocre rounds had zero effect.  Now, each round has an impact and can change my index by a whole point or more. OTOH, should I card several very good rounds in sequence, it will force those mediocre ones out of contention. 

"what goes around.....comes around".

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I haven't been playing long enough to even think about a handicap yet but I do use my average score as a yard stick to track my progress. Not sure I would ever make it official if you can just work it out yourself online, don't think I could justify the several hundred pounds it would cost to join a club in order to get it. I Suppose if I wanted to enter any tournament that would be different

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You don't have to join a club to get an official handicap.  Check out Thegrint

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Slugox Established Member

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  On 10/21/2017 at 11:39 PM, David in FL said:

It is, but a bit less accurate due to the limited number of rounds you've entered.

 With 9 rounds, your index is calculated using your 3 lowest scores (actually differentials).   Once you have a full 20 scores entered, your index is calculated using your lowest 10 scores of the last 20 scores that are entered. 

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That makes sense. Thank you. I have no delusions of grandeur, I was just kinda surprised it was that low. I'm sure I have 11 more rounds in that general vicinity, but I don't recall them accurately. Regardless, I can see and feel the improvement, and that is enough to make me happy.

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  On 10/22/2017 at 1:08 AM, Slugox said:

That makes sense. Thank you. I have no delusions of grandeur, I was just kinda surprised it was that low. I'm sure I have 11 more rounds in that general vicinity, but I don't recall them accurately. Regardless, I can see and feel the improvement, and that is enough to make me happy.

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Remember, too, it's not an average, but a measure of your "potential." Even after it throws away the "bad" rounds (of varying number, until you get to 20 rounds), it further reduces your handicap by multiplying by 0.96.

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Mine is GHIN as a member of Texas Golf Assn. BUT though I was moving down a little each month, I'm stuck. No change Sept or Oct. Carpal tunnel struck Sept. 28 and I haven't been able to play since. Getting an EMG tomorrow and hopefully surgery or at least a pain-killing injection soon after. I'm grieving over no golf in my life! -Marv:-(

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  On 10/29/2017 at 11:47 PM, iacas said:

Remember, too, it's not an average, but a measure of your "potential." Even after it throws away the "bad" rounds (of varying number, until you get to 20 rounds), it further reduces your handicap by multiplying by 0.96.

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I wont get to 20 rounds until next year some time. I'm at 11 now, and typically play Fridays. Either way, my scores are in a predicatble range, and I have plenty of things I see to work on. The drive continues.

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