Calculating initial handicaps

[Copernicus]

Can someone please help put an end to a debate between two ignoramuses on how initial handicaps are calculated?

Imagine to keep it simple you play three identical rounds of 18 holes.
On 8 holes you are one over par.
On two you are two over par
On 8 holes you are stuck in the rough and a bunker or a pond or whatever and score well over two over.

We both think you round down the 'wellovers' to 2 over. So do the good holes mean you get a 28 handicap. Or does the fact you end up with so many 'round downs' get taken into account so you would me more like a 36?

 

[Dasit]

28 is max handicap for men

So 28.

 

[Copernicus]

Sorry. Female golfer here!!

 

[louise_a]

For ladies, when calculating initial handicaps anything worse than 3 over is rounded down to 3 over, you then take your lowest adjusted card (of 3) and calculate the difference between that and SSS for the course, the resulting number is then multiplied by .9135 knock of the decimals and that is your initial handicap.

So if your lowest adjusted score gives you 31 more than SSS the calculation comes out at 28.3185, knock of the decimals an that's a 28 initial handicap.

 

[Copernicus]

Brilliant. Thanks Louise.

 

[rosecott]

28 is max handicap for men

So 28.

Not quite.

If the calculation produces a figure higher than 28 the player - if his club has opted in - can be offered a Club Handicap which can be as high as 54.

 

[jim8flog]

sorry posted in the wrong thread. This is out of date info and should be ignored.