Course handicap - bogie rating on 9 holes?

[Lihu]

6 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

From what I've read of USGA rules, they work really hard to make the specific wording of the rule reflect their intent.  If they wanted to require that someone verify your score, they would have made the wording reflect that.

Oops, what I meant is that they originally intended for this new rule to be for verification, but then later backed off the requirement and wrote a weaker requirement into the rules?

Any number of things might have weakened the rules. For instance, it's possible that courses complained that it could possibly reduce tee time bookings or something like that?

[DaveP043]

1 minute ago, Lihu said:

Oops, what I meant is that they originally intended for this new rule to be for verification, but then later backed off the requirement and wrote a weaker requirement into the rules?

Any number of things might have weakened the rules. For instance, it's possible that courses complained that it could possibly reduce tee time bookings or something like that?

All I know is that they didn't as me, or any of the TST members who've been complaining about the new rule since we heard about it back in December.  All we can do now is post in accordance with the current rules.

[Lihu]

5 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

All I know is that they didn't as me, or any of the TST members who've been complaining about the new rule since we heard about it back in December.  All we can do now is post in accordance with the current rules.

Yup, will do.

As an aside, I don't think I will ever have an opportunity to play a non-qualified round. Many if not most other golfers are more than likely in a similar situation.

[Grumpter]

1 hour ago, DaveP043 said:

Yeah, 

Sorry, I misread your question.  I think you're right, everything you post to Ghin will count toward your official handicap.  If you want to include those "unacceptable" scores in your calculations, you'll need to do it on your own somehow.  You might consider one of the free online services.  And when I say "unacceptable", I don't mean to imply that you've done anything wrong, that's just the word the USGA uses to describe scores that  can't be posted for official handicaps.

Yeah, that's how I figure I will go down. It would be nice if you could track it on their program to save the hassle of having to double track a lot of entries but I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen. It will be interesting to see if it impacts how many rounds I play. Early and late in the season I would have a lot of 9 hole rounds (early morning, later in the day) that would not qualify. If they are 'unacceptable' then I am not sure how it will affect my motivation to drag my butt out of bed to get 9 holes in before work.