Active/Inactive Handicap

[feary]

Hello all,

After playing today went into the changing room to see a leaflet saying that in 2010 there will be a new handicap rule introduced. It is called inactive/active handicap system. Basically you have to hand in 3 medal cards in over 2009 otherwise you are given an i next to your handicap. You can not get rid of the i until you have handed in 3 medal cards. I think this is really good as it will make all the handicap protectors(bandits) look stupid. This will make the game fairer as no one likes getting beaten by someone with 43points off 18. Is this right? I think so!

Age - 14
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Callway wdge 58degree
Odyssey black series #7
Taylormade TP red

 

[RGDave]

Yeh, right.....is it April 1st?

I can't see my club enforcing this rule, some members play 52 times a year and never come across a medal....

If this is true, I can see a lot of unhappy people....

 

[DCB]

We've had it for a few years now. Everyone must play 3 counting comps or their handicap lapses. They then can't play in any comp that needs a congu handicap until it is re-instated.

 

[RGDave]

We've had it for a few years now. Everyone must play 3 counting comps or their handicap lapses. They then can't play in any comp that needs a congu handicap until it is re-instated.

I still can't see it working at mine, rules and regs or not.

What? I'm not allowed to have a genuine and active h'cap if I hand in 40 QUALIFYING COMP cards in a year.???

I have yet to hand in a card where there is not a score recorded for every single hole.....

I'm not arguing with you, I'm arguing with the possibility and repercussions of this system.....

 

[DCB]

dave,

As long as you play the min of 3 counting comps each season there will be absolutely no problem. If you dont play a min of three then your handicap will lapse.

If you're playing 40 comps a year then there will be no problem.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

We've had it for a few years now. Everyone must play 3 counting comps or their handicap lapses. They then can't play in any comp that needs a congu handicap until it is re-instated.

Ours too. You have to play at least 3.
If not, you have to play 6 the following year to reinstate it.(I think)

 

[Farneyman]

Minimun 3 a year with us aswell. It makes sense if you ask me.

I take it from this thread its not a rule as such just for indivdual clubs to enforce.

 

[RGDave]

dave,

As long as you play the min of 3 counting comps each season there will be absolutely no problem. If you dont play a min of three then your handicap will lapse.

If you're playing 40 comps a year then there will be no problem.

The OP said three "medal" cards. As far as I'm concerned every card is "effectively" a medal card for me.....

You had me worried there!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We've had it for a while too. It also acts as a rule for gold letter events where you have to have a minimum of three qualifying cards in to enter these events

 

[RGDave]

We've had it for a while too. It also acts as a rule for gold letter events where you have to have a minimum of three qualifying cards in to enter these events

Medals or "qualifying"?

 

[pigmeister]

We have had the 3 card rule for ages. You cannot enter any comps unless you have done 3 medal cards. No cards no comps.

 

[RGDave]

We have had the 3 card rule for ages. You cannot enter any comps unless you have done 3 medal cards. No cards no comps.

I'm saying nothing. I haven't played a medal yet this year and will throw my toys out the pram if my (submitted) form for our "Open" gets refused.....

 

[mono217]

regardless of the handicap rule welcome to the forum

where are you from?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Three qualifiers to play the gold letter events but sadly not restricted to medals

 

[RGDave]

Three qualifiers to play the gold letter events but sadly not restricted to medals

What's sad?

Me and 30/100 of the more tidy players return a fully marked and signed card every week.....for stableford.....nothing wrong with monitoring/adjusting a player purely on stableford and bogey comps.

 

[Twire]

At our place its just 3 QUALIFIERS, which in my view is not a great deal, I would prefere it to be 5 or even 10 qualifiers.

Dave, I'm surprised you play 40 qualifiers and non of them are medals.

 

[GB72]

Same at my course following a new rule this year, must enter 3 cards from qualifying comps to keep your handicap. If not then it is deemed to have lapsed and you need to hand in 3 signed cards again.

 

[Cernunnos]

But at least you still have your handicap even if you don't put in cards, even if its labeled inactive.

 

[Parmo]

Same at my course following a new rule this year, must enter 3 cards from qualifying comps to keep your handicap. If not then it is deemed to have lapsed and you need to hand in 3 signed cards again.

Same here at ours this year. It stops the bandits just rolling in with bandit hcp's and entering major comps and winning and only then turning up again at prize night.

 

[balaclava]

My first post to this forum was prompted by my frustration, with what to me is a ‘dog’s dinner’ of a system. Never having played golf in the UK I first encountered this system last year and wrote to CONGU telling them the same thing and go the reply ‘nobody else has complained.’ A year later I am even more convinced that this system is bad and wrong on so many levels and at a loss to understand why it continues. I was told some months back by a member of the handicap committee that over 1/3 of golfers appearing on the handicap list NEVER play in qualifying competition and although, according to the CONGU rules they should be stripped of their handicap they won’t do it. Now I see that CONGU have realised the same thing and are bringing in active and inactive handicaps ( http://www.englishgolfunion.org/showpage.asp?code=0001000200090017 ). I put to it you (and them) that this is an admission on their part that this system isn’t working. If the system was working it wouldn’t need to be shored up with constant tweaks. The answer is, to follow the rest of the world of amateur golf and have handicaps based on every 18 hole game played, social or competition.