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    New HDID App

    Downloaded it, and it looks fine. 2 issues though. The Casual Golf booking is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes it takes me through ok, but sometimes it times out and a screen comes up saying my club does not have this facility. Hopefully just teething troubles. Maybe volume of use on Day 1. My...
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    New HDID App

    Surprising good news from our Director Of Golf today. Club has paid the £1400 to let members download the non ad version free of charge.
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    2025 End of term report

    Qualifying rounds played - 33 (probably round about 90 rounds in total. I play a lot of opens, and we don't play qualifiers in the Winter.) Lowest Gross - 76 (6 over) off whites, and 76 (4 over) off yellows. Index Movement - 9.3 to 5.7 Highlight - getting down to 5.7, and also winning the one...
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    So this is handicap manipulation right?

    Seems OK to me.
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    First time with stranger.......

    Just relax and enjoy it. You both want to enjoy the round, after all. Friendly advice though. I dont believe you should be making up your own rules at this stage, or indeed any stage of your playing career. This sets bad precedents which may be difficult to shake off later when you start playing...
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    Best course played & why?

    Best for me would be Banff Springs. The setting is spectacular. There are two plaques on the course. If I remember correctly, one says best par 3 in Canada, and the other says best par 4 in the world. I wouldn't argue. Best in UK for me would be Delamere Forest, with honourable mentions for...
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    So what are you listening to at the moment?

    Unlikely to hear any more full 2025 albums now, so here is my top 10, in roughly ascending order: 10. Mark William Lewis by Mark William Lewis 9. House Of All Souls by House Of All 8. Moisturiser by Wet Leg 7. More by Pulp 6. The Awful Truth by Nightingales 5. Who Is...
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    How long have you been at your current club, and

    Im only at my second club. Been a member here for 20 or 21 seasons. Previous club, where I got my initial handicap, member for about 6 years.
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    MLR L-1 Modification of DQ penalty for failure to sign card

    By the tech, do you mean your pencil, because that is all that should be required.
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    MLR L-1 Modification of DQ penalty for failure to sign card

    Its a horrible MLR, and it would be a black day indeed if this made it to the Rules proper. It is a basic tenet of the game to verify your card. Punching some figures into a mobile phone does not verify anything. DQ is a suitable penalty, and always has been. Whenever a pro is hit with this...
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    General Play scores in winter at your club

    No. North Wales Qualifiers close 2nd week in October and reopen last week in March, weather permitting. Preferred lies entire GA, rake and place in bunkers, course shortened too much, mudballs a-plenty, waterlogged bunkers. Anyone wanting to submit a qualifying card under these conditions is...
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    WHS & ISV Issues (Please post only if you are a handicap secretary or involved in admin at your club)

    It's obvious if it is editable, but I'm not sure it is. When I built the shortened courses some years ago, they were based on our 18 hole yellow WHS course, so the parameters were imported. Yes, you could build completely new courses with made up parameters (can you even build a 10 or 15 hole...
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    WHS & ISV Issues (Please post only if you are a handicap secretary or involved in admin at your club)

    I think my request for aid may have been lost in translation. I will try explaining it from a different angle. Each winter we play a shortened course, either 10 or 15 holes, and the course is not deemed suitable for qualifying cards. (Preferred lies entire GA, rake and place in bunkers etc.)...
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    WHS & ISV Issues (Please post only if you are a handicap secretary or involved in admin at your club)

    We are using the new cards. They were configured using the rationalised courses that were built on CV1. The stroke indexes are all wrong though, as the course used for our comps is still the 18 hole course. If we are given the choice to create a SI rationalised course, surely we can use this...
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    WHS & ISV Issues (Please post only if you are a handicap secretary or involved in admin at your club)

    Yes. Our course is not suitable for handicap qualifiers in the winter, and courses have been created on CV1 with rationalised indexes, so surely our secretary should use these.
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