Forum Profile Handicap Indices....

[DrvFrShow]

You know one thing that is NOT an improvement in the system is that when you enter a 9 hole round it doesn't show at all anymore. Last year it showed so you knew that the system accepted it. Now it won't display until you play another 9 holes so it can combine. Nice they did this without putting it on the web site. They may have sent out an e-mail at the beginning of the year, but come on it should be on the web site, and not buried somewhere.

Say you have an HC of 22 - 23. You can have an outlier personal best round in the low 80s where you got really hot on a course that absolutely suits your game but for some reason is rated say 72 with a decent slope rating. This can haunt you for over a year. I'm talking about the upper end HC bogey golfer, not you good players. You never play like that again the rest of the season, yet it absolutely kills your handicap by dropping it three to four strokes. Yes, I know you're excited about the round but best not to enter it into the system until you know it's repeatable. Laminate the scorecard and frame it.

[Big C]

You never play like that again the rest of the season, yet it absolutely kills your handicap by dropping it three to four strokes. Yes, I know you're excited about the round but best not to enter it into the system until you know it's repeatable. Laminate the scorecard and frame it.

So...... In other words you are advocating for sandbagging?

[Dave2512]

I don't remember seeing 9 hole scores being shown. I suppose it depends how/where you post. I use my phone and GHIN isn't my main service, still prefer GolfNet because the stat tracking is superior, so I post to GHIN via the CGA site or course computer.

[DrvFrShow]

So...... In other words you are advocating for sandbagging?

No I don't advocate sandbagging. It's that if one shoots an 82 and can't break 94 the rest of the season that 82 is essentially punishment.

[bkuehn1952]

... It's that if one shoots an 82 and can't break 94 the rest of the season that 82 is essentially punishment.

If the "82" produced a differential of 9.0 and your next 9 best differentials total 180.0 you would have an index of 18.1.  If your 10 best equaled 200.0 it results in an index of 19.2  That is only a 1.1 difference.  I don't see an index of 18.1 versus 19.2 as being all that much of a punishment.

Many of us play more than 50 times in a year so an outlier differential typically washes out of the calculation at some point during the season.

[cutchemist42]

Mine is calculated from Golfshot, with RCGA selected as the handicap method. Golfshot allows you to pay for the USGA one to be maintained. So yeah, its not official as Im not a member of Golf Canada/Manitoba, but Im assuming Golfshot has done the math right.

[DaveP043]

You know one thing that is NOT an improvement in the system is that when you enter a 9 hole round it doesn't show at all anymore. Last year it showed so you knew that the system accepted it. Now it won't display until you play another 9 holes so it can combine. Nice they did this without putting it on the web site. They may have sent out an e-mail at the beginning of the year, but come on it should be on the web site, and not buried somewhere.

Say you have an HC of 22 - 23. You can have an outlier personal best round in the low 80s where you got really hot on a course that absolutely suits your game but for some reason is rated say 72 with a decent slope rating. This can haunt you for over a year. I'm talking about the upper end HC bogey golfer, not you good players. You never play like that again the rest of the season, yet it absolutely kills your handicap by dropping it three to four strokes. Yes, I know you're excited about the round but best not to enter it into the system until you know it's repeatable. Laminate the scorecard and frame it.

Oddly enough, the Ghin app on my phone does show my "pending" 9-hole scores as well as the combined scores, on a separate page.  The Pending scores don't shop up on any of the other pages.  On the Ghin website, I can only see a page for the revision scores, and a separate page for the 20 most recent.

A single low score like the one mentioned will typically only reduce your index by about one stroke.  The differential is around 10 below the index, and when you divide that by 10, its only one stroke or so.  The only way for a single round to change your handicap by 3 or 4 strokes is for it to be 30 or 40 strokes below the index, and that's pretty unlikely.  It can haunt you for 19 more rounds, but the time it takes to play 19 more rounds varies from person to person.

[Shindig]

Down to 14.0 as of September 1. Personal best, and none of the five least recent differentials are used, so here's hoping to an even better handicap in the not-too-distant future :-)

[rkim291968]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big C

So...... In other words you are advocating for sandbagging?

No I don't advocate sandbagging. It's that if one shoots an 82 and can't break 94 the rest of the season that 82 is essentially punishment.

Once I had 78 and the 19 other scores in 90s in the system.   This skewed my HI by 1.5 points for 2 months (I average 10+ rounds per month).   My tournament scores in those two months were so bad that the 78 in the system wasn't a factor.   It'd have been a factor in tight match play.

[BuckeyeNut]

Haaaaaaiiill YES~   Was 1.7...................now 1.2  BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

heh

[cwoodard11]

7.8 to 7.6 hoping to get to 6 before end of year

[MizunoPez]

Haven't updated anything on here for a while but I've since been cut to 3.1 (was off 4.0 over a year ago on here). Currently playing the best golf of my life, also considering I've never had a lesson.

[Ongle]

Mine is not official, it's an estimate worked out based on my scoring this summer. I've never bothered with a handicap because I've not been a member of a club since I started playing again 4 years ago and to be honest I drop in and out of golf and only play in the summer. Always felt I could work out how well I'm playing without a number and never really knew about these online handicap websites, etc. I have decided to get serious with my golf now though so will be looking to get an official handicap and work hard to reduce it. Will also look to play throughout winter and tick over.

[jsgolfer]

Dropped to 5.6.

[Dave2512]

7.5, won't play again before the update and dang it took me a long time to get back into the 7's. Still have two months to knock it down a bit more. Breaking 80 consistently again, which is good, I was ready to call it quits.

[pumaAttack]

Dropped from a 15.5 to a 14.4.

[djfajt71]

Up again from 16.8 to 17.1.

[Jeremie Boop]

Back down a little from 18.2 to 18. Didn't play much golf during that time though, unfortunately.