USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
I can see that to get a h/cap, you need to put 3 cards in. From these 3 cards they discard the two worst (why?), and take the best. They then get rid of the sillys, and that's your number.
Whilst I can't suggest anything better, this does seem flawed. Some one who puts in one flash round would be artificially low. Some one who puts in 3 gash cards (with nothing more than doubles) would be high.
From my last 3 rounds, I'd be off 3 instead of 10 (may be 9, waiting on HDID), as my rounds were 76, 78, 75. But there is no standard scratch for a first h/cap card. I am no way a 3 handicap.
My friend Chang, who I played with on the Friday, and who was behind my group on Saturday, shot 78, 74 and 73 on the three days. He was off 11, but this would give him a handicap of 1. That's some drop. He's good, but not that good.
For both of us, it would take a lot of 0.1s to correct this.
Even for the higher h/caps, because of reducing the disasters on the card, they get a lower h/cap than they would want, and struggle to play to it. If you routinely have a 10 on the card, you are never going to score well in stroke play.
To me, more cards need to be considered, or may be a review for new h/caps after a 3 month period, or the first 6 cards after a first h/cap to establish if the initial number given was correct.
Whilst I can't suggest anything better, this does seem flawed. Some one who puts in one flash round would be artificially low. Some one who puts in 3 gash cards (with nothing more than doubles) would be high.
From my last 3 rounds, I'd be off 3 instead of 10 (may be 9, waiting on HDID), as my rounds were 76, 78, 75. But there is no standard scratch for a first h/cap card. I am no way a 3 handicap.
My friend Chang, who I played with on the Friday, and who was behind my group on Saturday, shot 78, 74 and 73 on the three days. He was off 11, but this would give him a handicap of 1. That's some drop. He's good, but not that good.
For both of us, it would take a lot of 0.1s to correct this.
Even for the higher h/caps, because of reducing the disasters on the card, they get a lower h/cap than they would want, and struggle to play to it. If you routinely have a 10 on the card, you are never going to score well in stroke play.
To me, more cards need to be considered, or may be a review for new h/caps after a 3 month period, or the first 6 cards after a first h/cap to establish if the initial number given was correct.
) this is exactly what happened with J_F when he put his cards in. Everybody can have one flash round once in a while and this could result in false handicap, although in J_F's case it was more a case of 2 bad rounds. Not sure of better way myself, maybe more cards required but this may put some people off getting a handicap.
) and although I played with members, we were not in a comp so completely forgot about siging the cards.
