Busted. A Cheat Caught

[Crazyface]

That of course penalizes the player who is getting older and can't hit as far.

Yes, but if this had been left in place they would have gained the extra shots required by now. And also an end of season review could have speeded things up.

 

[PJ87]

Not if people continue to put more GP cards in as they do now. Wasn't there a thing that you'd go up a whole shot after a certain number of poor rounds - and committees can put you up in the review as well. It really wasn't that much of a hardship for your handicap to creep up slowly. Rather than getting two shots back after one bad month.

There is the soft anchor and the hard anchor for this isn't there?

Low Handicap Index (LHI)
A player's lowest Handicap Index during the last 12 months is used as an Anchor Point to limit increases in Handicap Index.
Soft CAP: Potential increases of Handicap Index to a figure greater than (LHI + 3) are limited by half the amount over three, e.g. 5 is limited to 4, 6 is limited to 4.5, etc.
Hard CAP: The maximum that the Handicap Index can increase to is (LHI + 5).