Recent content by Troymcclure

I had no choice but to open that can as we played the format this weekend. Everyone looked to me for guidance as an interested student of all things handicap and frequenter of this forum. I got the can open, but one or two worms stubbornly stuck to the bottom.

So assuming I guess correctly that the number of times a partner would be playing one additional shot in the hope of matching their partner’s score would be so few that pace of play is not unduly hindered, I think an additional “compromise” of awarding the same points seems fairer. At the same...

Yes but isn’t the object of any game that qualifies for handicap adjustments to play as well as one can to handicap? In fact to not do so is considered manipulation. So dual objectives that completely conflict. Dumb, no?

Thanks. Do you think if the guidance were to allow holing out for the same score as one’s partner, and in such cases both scores counted for handicap, more players would get cuts?

Assuming all the criteria is met for a handicap adjustment (42 points etc.), if my partner holed out for say 4 points on a hole and I had a putt also for 4 points on same hole, am I right in thinking I’m to pick up as I can’t beat my partners score and I’ll be assigned only 1.5 points for...

Thanks all. I’ll let you know how I get on 👍

Any tips for a product to spray a line on the grass range to gauge strike location? I titled the post ‘vanishing spray’ as I believe that’s the name of the product football referees use. But don’t they disappear in a few seconds? Anything that remains visible a while longer so I can paint a...

So before this came in (last year?) a particular HI might yield a CH of say 14 resulting in a PH of 13 and we learnt to hole out for a double for 0 Stableford points on Index 14 for handicap purposes. Does machine precision change that behaviour? That exact same Index could yield a PH of 13 OR...

Ah, didn’t read properly. You’re talking about bookings. Yes wouldn’t work I don’t think. It works well at Rollup courses. How ever many turn up you walk to the appropriate tee

I assume only Clubs with 1st and 10th close by do it?

Yes that’s a great point. If I ask from 100 yards away I’m the idiot, not the refuser. And “somewhere” in-between is the grey area. I now see why Commitee might need to be involved 👍

And what if it’s 10 yards rather than 2 millimetres. I want to putt, not chip and consider it might be on my line. I’m wrong because I’ve completely misread the putt but I ask anyway as allowed and am refused. My point is, should the Rules not decree a deliberate and knowing refusal to adhere...

Indeed, and salfordlad informs us that repeated refusal is a serious breach. Why does it need to be repeated? Housery is housery.

I’ve re-read 15.3b and see nothing that could warrant Committee involvement. Or is the word “require” rather than “ask” in the sentence “The player may require the other player to mark the spot…” significant?

Fellow competitor’s ball is millimetres in front of mine, just off the green, directly in line. I ask him to mark it. He says he knows it’s permitted within the rules but refuses. I don’t see why that shouldn’t be a DQ but no replies means I’m probably alone so I’ll ask instead opinions on how...