Good to see as usual nothing from Scottish Golf.Wales Golf outlined the key changes today. They can be found at the link below, which also has an updated Guidance Document.
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Well they're basically correct, so not seeing the amusement intent
Its the "way he tells them" or the slant he puts on it with words such as "too quickly", "nonsense", "daft" and "flaws".
Most are easily disproved, and it's a bit churlish to claim a flawed system when flaws are unavoidable due to the nature and variability of golf and golfers.
Ah OK, tbh I'd have phrased it identically, someone should check his IP to see if I have a sock account
You can see what is required in the South African version of the handicap manual that can be downloaded from here: https://www.handicaps.co.za/handicaps-info/rules-of-handicapping/ rule 6.2b
Changes take place on April fools day, looks like you've already been caught
I think that’s enough for the next day or two. Looking forward to following this.
As has been said it’s not in place until 1/4/24. Then your CH will be unrounded e.g. 7.4 and this is the number you will use for calculating the playing allowance to create your playing handicap (not a whole number that is on a board now) so it will be 95% of this number for individual strokeplay. 90% 4BB matchplay, 85% 2 out of 4 etc. etc. You will have to get this number from your ISV, a handicap calculator or a series of tables somewhere at the club as you will need a table per tee per allowance.
Not sure why things have changed as it's not happening until April. Has your course been assessed which may account for changes.
I think you may have mixed things up a bit. As said, WHS changes don't become effective until 1 April. However the R&A have introduced some new Rules of Golf Clarifications which became effective from the 1January.
Oops…i thought it was April but did a quick scan read of the changes doc the club sent out on Thursday and I picked this up…”WHA have announced the next WHS™ update for the 1 January 2024” and misinterpreted what that meant. Anyway…questions stand.Changes take place on April fools day, looks like you've already been caught
As note I misinterpreted a statement in the changes guidance doc the club sent out with its notice of the annual handicap review that I believe the handicap committee has started on.
Well doing the 5,10 and 15% of my whole number CH (same for fronts and backs) in my head was easy. But of such as my current 7.4 off backs and 6.2 off fronts 
We are told that all the ISVs' software and apps will do all the arithmetic for you. It seems EG will make a contribution towards new boards but not sure how that works.As note I misinterpreted a statement in the changes guidance doc the club sent out with its notice of the annual handicap review that I believe the handicap committee has started on.
As far as the %…
Boards will be removed from most clubs as soon as they realise the size of board needed to display CH's to one decimal place.
But "convenient" playing handicaps that in 17% of cases will be wrong.
I agree, if I am playing a match and the Playing Handicap from the ‘convenient’ board says one thing and the tables calculated by ’machine precision’ say another thing then which one is ‘right’? This is an argument/discussion that committees and clubs just don’t want/need to have.
