95% allowance.

[WGCRider]

My questions is how is this applied. To give a very simple example if my handicap is 9.5 and the slope rating is 113. Then my playing handicap is 10. Do I apply 95% to this which would mean my handicap after is still 10 or is 95% of 9.5 meaning I'm playing off 9?

 

[Old Skier]

Round up, perhaps a discussion with your HC Committee might help.

 

[IanM]

You take the 95% off your course handicap, not your handicap Index. Then round up or down

Look at the app or the tables no need for "hard sums!"

 

[IanM]

 

[IanM]

Wales Golf App (see above) has a tab on the menu so you can enter any course, your Handicap Index, then it shows you your course handicap, easy peasy.

Do England and Scotland have same?

 

[WGCRider]

clear - thanks

 

[upsidedown]

Wales Golf App (see above) has a tab on the menu so you can enter any course, your Handicap Index, then it shows you your course handicap, easy peasy.

Do England and Scotland have same?

Yes for England

 

[Steve Wilkes]

My questions is how is this applied. To give a very simple example if my handicap is 9.5 and the slope rating is 113. Then my playing handicap is 10. Do I apply 95% to this which would mean my handicap after is still 10 or is 95% of 9.5 meaning I'm playing off 9?

If your Index is 9.5 on a slope of 113, then your Course Handicap is 10. Your playing handicap is 95% of 10, which is 9.5 round up to 10

 

[doublebogey7]

Will depend on whether you are in Scotland or elsewhere. Scotland the rounding is not done until after the 95% has been applied, so your PH would be 9. Elsewhere it would be 10 as the rounding is applied at both stages.

 

[Voyager EMH]

The Scottish way makes more sense to me, but we have to abide by the England golf method in England.

 

[Tashyboy]

The Scottish way makes more sense to me, but we have to abide by the England golf method in England.

If we have a Worldwide WHS system. Why is Englands different to scotlands ?

 

[rulie]

If we have a Worldwide WHS system. Why is Englands different to scotlands ?

Historically, that just seems to happen every once in a while, and over some of the silliest things.

 

[rosecott]

If we have a Worldwide WHS system. Why is Englands different to scotlands ?

The handicap system is the same - the difference is in the application to competitions.

 

[jim8flog]

If we have a Worldwide WHS system. Why is Englands different to scotlands ?

and why is England and Scotland different to New Zealand?

It is only the basics that remain the same i.e average of the best 8 to produce a Handicap Index what happens after that depends on where in the world you are.

+ Course Ratings and Slopes probably remain pretty consistent across the world.

 

[Tashyboy]

The handicap system is the same - the difference is in the application to competitions.

I think this is the bit I don’t understand. Why is there a difference in application to competitions. I understand the best 8 from 20 but is 95% applied in all comps in Scotland, England, New Zealand etc.
If not, I wonder why?
Genuinely interested ?

 

[wjemather]

I think this is the bit I don’t understand. Why is there a difference in application to competitions. I understand the best 8 from 20 but is 95% applied in all comps in Scotland, England, New Zealand etc.
If not, I wonder why?
Genuinely interested ?

WHS was designed to enable local authorities to tailor the system to suit their jurisdiction. The Handicap Index is the only thing that truly matters in order to have a portable handicap, and it is essentially the same everywhere (the effect of any options taken - which affect things like NDB adjustments - is extremely insignificant).

The competition allowances in Appendix C of the rules (e.g. 95%) are nothing more than recommendations for medium size fields; the rules leave it to national associations to determine what is right for them. As the national authority for GB&I, CONGU has decided to make the allowances mandatory for all affiliated associations and clubs within GB&I for all field sizes.

 

[Foxholer]

My questions is how is this applied. To give a very simple example if my handicap is 9.5 and the slope rating is 113. Then my playing handicap is 10. Do I apply 95% to this which would mean my handicap after is still 10 or is 95% of 9.5 meaning I'm playing off 9?

That calculation provides 'Course Handicap'. Your Playing Handicap depends on the format of golf you are playing (the' Handicap Allowance'). 95% is the Handicap Allowance for Singles Strokeplay; 85% for Pairs/Team Better Ball etc.
Here's a calculator from the club I play most of my golf at, but it's applicable elsewhere - as long as you know the Slope of the set of tees you will play. EG have an equivalent App you can download to your phone.
https://coursehandicap.com/the-shire-london-1017150-the-ballesteros-masters/
Most courses also have sheets near the 1st Tee that you can use too.

 

[rulefan]

I think this is the bit I don’t understand. Why is there a difference in application to competitions. I understand the best 8 from 20 but is 95% applied in all comps in Scotland, England, New Zealand etc.
If not, I wonder why?
Genuinely interested ?

The process for Handicapping is the same all over (ie Course Handicap). The Playing Handicap allowances are only about competitions and may be obligatory or optional set by national authorities for handicap competitions.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Same all over (ie Course Handicap) is not correct.

There is no Course Handicap in Australia.

They have GA Index (Golf Australia Index) and they have "Daily Handicap" which is what you play off in individual strokeplay.



What we call Course Rating, they call Scratch Rating

 

[D-S]

The process for Handicapping is the same all over (ie Course Handicap).

I thought that ’Course Handicap‘ in many/most other jurisdictions included the difference between course rating and par whereas in these isles it does not.