Handicaps and Tournament Scores

[stevedimebag]

Re: Handicaps and Tournament Scores

What if the club competition is match play? Or is the system set up to only use stroke play competitive scores?

the software just records the margin of victory. it does not record indivdual scores for matchplay.

masterscoreboard.co.uk is the site our results are published on. search for galashiels and you can see what it is like.

[stevedimebag]

Re: Handicaps and Tournament Scores

In Scotland, most players are members of clubs (public or private) and have the opportunity to play Medals or Stablefords every week, therefore it's easy to have a handicap based on competitive rounds only. All scores are attested and cards handed in, so the vast majority of players have accurate handicaps.

In Ontario, the choice is either "pay as you play" or relatively expensive private club golf. Neither option gives you the chance to play competitive golf regularly. The handicap system is open to abuse (therefore more talk of sandbagging) but overall, works reasonably well.

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culture is different - ours lends itself much more to fairer handicapping. Your handicap system is based around your culture of golf - but i still don't think that match play scores should contribute to your handicap.

[rulie]

Re: Handicaps and Tournament Scores

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culture is different - ours lends itself much more to fairer handicapping. Your handicap system is based around your culture of golf - but i still don't think that match play scores should contribute to your handicap.

However, our handicapping authorities have stated otherwise, and therefore we must use match play scores for our handicaps (regardless of what you think we should do).

[stevedimebag]

Re: Handicaps and Tournament Scores

However, our handicapping authorities have stated otherwise, and therefore we must use match play scores for our handicaps (regardless of what you think we should do).

Yes sir!

[abz-pete]

Re: Handicaps and Tournament Scores

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culture is different - ours lends itself much more to fairer handicapping. Your handicap system is based around your culture of golf - but i still don't think that match play scores should contribute to your handicap.

I agree with you, I don't believe you can play stroke-play and match-play in the same round. I still have a Scottish handicap but no longer maintain a Canadian one.

In fact, as proof that the Canadian system works quite well, there was rarely more than one stroke difference between my Scottish/Canadian handicaps.