Orikoru
Tour Winner
That's not true at all. I scored 37 points the other week and my handicap went up.
Alterations to WHS?
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Because we are not yet using CR-par. In the CR-par situation next year, your handicap will have to drop. Your 37 the other week would be a 34 or something next year. Your HI will always have some scores worse than its average. So if you score on the average, the worst will be discarded and the on-HI score count. Reducing your HI.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Fragger didn't have a scoring card dropping out, didn't put in a better score than anything already there....and still went up...
rulefan
Tour Winner
There are significantly more who have, than play in the UK
wjemather
Well-known member
Playing the course would make absolutely no difference to the ratings, which are calculated almost entirely from measurements.
Average scores on any course in Aus should be about 32 points, so scoring fewer than 30 on an unfamiliar course wouldn't be unexpected at all and it certainly wouldn't make anyone look like an idiot.
cliveb
Head Pro
Had he hit the soft cap?
If his lowest index was a year back and it just slipped out of a 12 month window, the soft cap could be removed, resulting in an index increase.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Is the correct answer
Alan Clifford
Well-known member
Just had a look in the England Golf version of the WHS rules of handicapping and it says, "Otherwise, the full calculated value is retained and rounding occurs only after the Playing Handicap calculation".
i wish we did the American way for 9 holes, adding two together instead of scaling up. At the moment, for my last 20 scores, I've only played 180 holes rather than 360. Seems wrong to me. What's the change going to be?
Alan Clifford
Well-known member
Unless the 20th is a good one and drops off
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
You must win every time you do this.
Well done.
It lets me count Stableford points and so adds to the competition against myself. I dont win every time.more often I lose. But I do feel good if I beat 36 and count that as a win.
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
I think I would do a similar thing by looking at whether my score differential is equal to or better than my handicap index.
This is a much more reliable and consistent measure than 36 points.
36 points on a course that has a course rating two or three shots below par is not worthy of a "win" in this respect.
D-S
Well-known member
Hence the need for CR-Par in the CH calculation.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Why do you always act like it's normal for people to sit and work this out?
Nobody wants to faff about calculating what their score differential was when they can see at a glance how many points they got and decide if it was a good score or not. Simple as that. If you get 36 points you know you played pretty much to handicap and that's good enough for most people.
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
Why do you always act like it's normal for people to sit and work this out?
To be fair, you don't have to work it out...
Input your gross score and its there to see in seconds what your score differential is.
Handicap Index's are based on Score Differential's at the end of the day
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Only if you're entering a card, which invariably a lot of people wouldn't be doing.
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
But you'd still have a score diff regardless. I can still look back at old scores and know a 76 at my place is a 8.2 diff
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Not if I'm playing at another course. I'm sure we all know what we consider good/bad on our own courses already, without the need for score diffs anyway.
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
You're getting very specific now
In your case - no, don't bother. If its not going in for handicap then it doesn't matter anyway.
I suspect 99% of golfers have no idea about differential. I'd be lying if I said I look at it, notice it or absorb what it means.
I'm with @Orikoru and I reckon the vast majority of golfers.
