Jeronemo

Its worth mentioning that we use our stableford scores each week to calculate placings. Eg most points gets 10 points in a league. 2nd gets 9 points and so on. 35 scoring weeks later we have a winner. We also have a running total stableford points gained for the season as a seperate comp. Plus others. So accuracy of hsndicaps is essential.

We would like to play using a correct and recognised handicap system. Our summer league is stableford, anf as mentiond before the alternate 9hole comp, but admittidly the two 9's are very diffrent. But we would like our handicaps as correct as possible to make a fair comp across the board. We then as a rule use the same handicaps when we play our 18 holers at the weekend in a variety of social and competetive formats. None of us are bandits, but we do like scoring well. But the goal for the majority is to get our handicsps down and be competitive off them.

I help run a golf society, its new, but we want to do things right. We have just played an 18 hole winter season in brutal winds, and have calculated our handicaps using the Congu method with th buffer zone each week. I finished the season with a handicap of 14 We have now started a mid week 9 hole summer season, alternating between north and south each week. So last night we played the North 9 So for the 9 holes I started off a handicap of 7 another member in another group plays off 21 but for this 9 holes starts off a handicap of 10 Before anyone judges this, light rain no wind... perfect scoring conditions We both hit as good as we have ever played. I hit 2 over per for a -5 net =23 points stableford (all scored) so -0.3 x 5 off 14.2 = handicap 12.7 ? or is it doubled etc?? and the other guy hit a 4 over -6 net =24 points (all scored) so -0.4 x 6 off 21.2 = handicap 18.8 ? ???? I dilema as you can see is how do we calculate our weekly handicaps back up for the 18 holers we play at the weekend, and the opposite 9 the following week Please help... I have heard allsort up to now...