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It would be interesting to see a similar table after 4 seasons of WHS. CONGU did no favours for older high handicappers only getting 0.1 when they progressively got older and played over their buffer every time.
Continuous Handicap Review was supposed to address the declining player - our h/c comm had 2 x cat 1 members, 3 x borderline cat 1/cat 2 members, 3 x cat 2 members and 1 cat 3 member. Trying to float any discussion about giving a lift was an uphill struggle.
 

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Continuous Handicap Review was supposed to address the declining player - our h/c comm had 2 x cat 1 members, 3 x borderline cat 1/cat 2 members, 3 x cat 2 members and 1 cat 3 member. Trying to float any discussion about giving a lift was an uphill struggle.
The problem was/is that many of these players stopped playing comps or only played in 1 or 2 seniors events, so never got 7 continuous 0.1s since the Continuous Review was introduced.
 

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The problem was/is that many of these players stopped playing comps or only played in 1 or 2 seniors events, so never got 7 continuous 0.1s since the Continuous Review was introduced.
I was more concerned with those who played almost every comp and were in handicap freefall. As you say, it was a slow painful death at 0.1 per round.
 

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The problem was/is that many of these players stopped playing comps or only played in 1 or 2 seniors events, so never got 7 continuous 0.1s since the Continuous Review was introduced.
We experienced much the same..... they did very little to help themselves by giving us the data to work on. WHS is IMO providing great progress in addressing this kind of thing. I'm currently injured & our course, as well as many others is playing extremely difficult. My 13 Q rounds have shifted me from 10.1 to 13.1 with 3 of those rounds counting in my 8. WHS is very reflective & quick to do so. The problems with initial H/caps ha been there for quite some time. Clubs need to address this through their Comp T's & C's
 

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I was more concerned with those who played almost every comp and were in handicap freefall. As you say, it was a slow painful death at 0.1 per round.
BUT.... if they didn't get their 7 continuous they weren't exactly in freefall. We had a number of thgose.
 

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I was more concerned with those who played almost every comp and were in handicap freefall. As you say, it was a slow painful death at 0.1 per round.
If they had been playing regularly since Jan 2018 the WHS transition would/should have recalculated their scores under the WHS formula and they would be ok now.
 

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If they had been playing regularly since Jan 2018 the WHS transition would/should have recalculated their scores under the WHS formula and they would be ok now.

One of the discussions I was having yesterday was with someone who does not like the new system I think he now does as I made him realise that having gone from 14 to 27 (through many years) it is something that could only have happened with a handicap review under the UHS.

We used to see around 20- 30 players on the list each quarter when doing the Continuous Review and about a third of those were given an increase but in my view the increase was never really high enough in some cases.
 

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One of the discussions I was having yesterday was with someone who does not like the new system I think he now does as I made him realise that having gone from 14 to 27 (through many years) it is something that could only have happened with a handicap review under the UHS.

We used to see around 20- 30 players on the list each quarter when doing the Continuous Review and about a third of those were given an increase but in my view the increase was never really high enough in some cases.
I guess that was very dependent on the people running the review. I know the guidance suggested not to increase the handicap if the player had played within buffer in the last year (from memory). However, this seemed harsh, as it could be very clear that a player has had a run of terrible form for several months, and submitted a good few scores. So, we would increase player handicaps, and sometimes by a reasonable amount. My starting point was to take their best score over a reasonable period of time / scores, work out what their initial handicap calculation would be from that score if they were a new golfer, and then bring this to Committee to discuss. This was done every 4-6 weeks. It worked really well, and it ensured that players who were languishing at the bottom of the leaderboard on 20 odd points every week, started to break into 30's and then pushing towards playing to and beating handicap on occasion.

Personally, I think part of the issue was that previous handicap secs, especially those on Seniors side, historically cut winners of competitions an extra shot or 2, even if they won with a nett score over SSS. That, and declining ability, meant there were quite a few members with handicaps that were too low.
 

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I guess that was very dependent on the people running the review. I know the guidance suggested not to increase the handicap if the player had played within buffer in the last year (from memory). However, this seemed harsh, as it could be very clear that a player has had a run of terrible form for several months, and submitted a good few scores. So, we would increase player handicaps, and sometimes by a reasonable amount. My starting point was to take their best score over a reasonable period of time / scores, work out what their initial handicap calculation would be from that score if they were a new golfer, and then bring this to Committee to discuss. This was done every 4-6 weeks. It worked really well, and it ensured that players who were languishing at the bottom of the leaderboard on 20 odd points every week, started to break into 30's and then pushing towards playing to and beating handicap on occasion.

Personally, I think part of the issue was that previous handicap secs, especially those on Seniors side, historically cut winners of competitions an extra shot or 2, even if they won with a nett score over SSS. That, and declining ability, meant there were quite a few members with handicaps that were too low.
Due to general declining ability among seniors, we would very often find CSS increasing in their competitions when the very few capable ones were absent or failed to perform. This resulted in most seniors having handicaps lower than they should, with more of them making buffer and not getting increases. Ladies competitions were similarly afflicted. Now, with all scores taken into account for PCC (which is less likely to be non-zero anyway), that should not happen.
 
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I posted in another thread that a new member at our club (well, a returning member from 2018) has been given a handicap index which led to him playing in his 1st comp (medal) off +5 playing handicap...

Based on 5 or so cards on his WHS page, the best being a 67 (-3), but 3 years ago..

He had Net 80.30C653DC-1A14-4930-BF96-BD661D16BFF5.jpeg
 

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One of the discussions I was having yesterday was with someone who does not like the new system I think he now does as I made him realise that having gone from 14 to 27 (through many years) it is something that could only have happened with a handicap review under the UHS.

We used to see around 20- 30 players on the list each quarter when doing the Continuous Review and about a third of those were given an increase but in my view the increase was never really high enough in some cases.
A further quirk we found on transition was that a number of seniors had followed EG advice to get supplementary scores in. They did but they were over 9 holes. The WHS transition ignored them as 9 hole CR and SR values were not available.
One player ended up only having two counting scores and a dummy score. As soon as he returns a card his Index will come down by 2.0 !!!
 

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I posted in another thread that a new member at our club (well, a returning member from 2018) has been given a handicap index which led to him playing in his 1st comp (medal) off +5 playing handicap...

Based on 5 or so cards on his WHS page, the best being a 67 (-3), but 3 years ago..

He had Net 80.View attachment 36470


Those scores from 2018 will continue to count until he gets another 18 cards in. He'd better get moving.
 

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A further quirk we found on transition was that a number of seniors had followed EG advice to get supplementary scores in. They did but they were over 9 holes. The WHS transition ignored them as 9 hole CR and SR values were not available.
One player ended up only having two counting scores and a dummy score. As soon as he returns a card his Index will come down by 2.0 !!!
Also, the scaling-up process for 9-hole scores under UHS often resulted in scores better than would be the case under WHS, potentially making for lower handicaps that will take time to filter out.
 
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