Canfordhacker
Q-School Graduate
So golf team back in today and invited questions regarding handicaps. I duly obliged and they have fixed the two issues with my record in a couple of hours. Brilliant. However, I also asked them the following regarding a comp on 6 Jan this year that has a broader impact:-
"It was a 9 hole seniors comp. But it looks like the scores were transferred to Golf England as though it were an 18 hole comp - and as no scores were recorded for the back 9 they all defaulted to nett double bogey, which will grossly inflates the scores and means they don’t make it into people’s top 8 to count for Handicap Index. Won’t be a problem for most, but for those near the top it will. My understanding is that 9 nett pars plus 1 stroke should be added in these circumstances (the equivalent of 17 Stableford points)"
The answer I got back to that one was "as it was only a 9-hole event and, previous to the introduction of the WHS, 9-hole events weren’t classed as qualifiers - so best thing to do is it leave it as is."
Thoughts?
"It was a 9 hole seniors comp. But it looks like the scores were transferred to Golf England as though it were an 18 hole comp - and as no scores were recorded for the back 9 they all defaulted to nett double bogey, which will grossly inflates the scores and means they don’t make it into people’s top 8 to count for Handicap Index. Won’t be a problem for most, but for those near the top it will. My understanding is that 9 nett pars plus 1 stroke should be added in these circumstances (the equivalent of 17 Stableford points)"
The answer I got back to that one was "as it was only a 9-hole event and, previous to the introduction of the WHS, 9-hole events weren’t classed as qualifiers - so best thing to do is it leave it as is."
Thoughts?