Originally posted by wlorcb
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For example, if you got your handicap down to a 10, for the next 365 days, the highest your cap can go out to is 15. If your cap went out to 13, you are 3 strokes above your low point, so you are now soft capped. This means that your score can only increase at 50% of the normal rate that it would.
Copied and pasted from a site we use in order to put some method to the madness:
- The Hard Cap eliminates the capacity for extreme outward movements of a GA Handicap within short spaces of time.
- As a result, a loss of form does not cause a player’s GA Handicap to move too far from a level which is consistent with their underlying ability.
- The Hard Cap also makes the handicap system less susceptible to manipulation.
- See Part C for information on the new Soft Cap regulation. Under the WHS, a GA Handicap will continue to increase at the rate of 100% of the ‘8 of 20 scores’ calculation UNTIL it reaches 3 strokes above its best point from the previous 12 months. Once in this new Soft Cap zone, a player’s GA Handicap will only be allowed to increase by 50% of the calculated amount.
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