Can You Have an Official Handcap and not be a member of a Club?

MendieGK said:
as already mentioned, i'd just join a club affiliated at a muni.

Southsea Golf Club in portsmouth is only £50 a year. i'd be almost certain they would have no issue you joining even if you never actually went to the club or the course. end of the day its an extra £50 a year for them....
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Where do you suggest he actually plays in order to maintain a handicap?
 
rulefan said:
I can't see a player, who previously had a +4 CONGU handicap, entering a serious open competition that allowed players without an official handicap. In fact, I can't see any serious open competition allowing players without an official handicap
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I can't see why not?
 
Old Skier said:
Have I completely lost the plot - he would still be required to be a member of a club to maintain his official handicap - or have I missed something.
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#40, where it was suggested, as others had, he joined a certain club but for only £50 a year to which they probably wouldn’t be that bothered if he didn’t play there. This was met with, ‘how would he maintain his handicap’, which obviously would be achieved by playing in ‘official’ opens, which is all he wants to do.
 
Which would involve processing and checking all the away scores.

Not sure many h'cap secs or club managers at a municipal course would welcome that.
 
rulefan said:
Which would involve processing and checking all the away scores.

Not sure many h'cap secs or club managers at a municipal course would welcome that.
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It’s not exactly a hardship and with IG it’s auto downloaded every night then takes minutes to enter
 
Liverpoolphil said:
It’s not exactly a hardship and with IG it’s auto downloaded every night then takes minutes to enter
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Don't forget he is Cat1 and that involves the Audit and muni's handicap administration is not always the easiest job.

Incidentally, I don't think many munis can afford IG or Club V1.
 
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rulie said:
You seem to be suggesting that the only thing traditional member clubs offer are the right to have a handicap. If that's all they have to offer to members, perhaps they should fail. I think that you're grossly underselling what traditional member clubs have to offer to members.
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That's absolutely not what I'm suggesting but feel free to presume away :thup:

Given the trend towards nomadic golf, fall in membership (generally speaking) due in the main to cost if you introduce a handicap system like this where people can have a handicap to play in Opens/"Public Golfer Clubs" to get competitive golf I suspect a number of clubs would fail.

Look at the US where the handicap system is in place, their membership model is very different to ours.

Only a concern of mine, I am a member of a "traditional" members club so know exactly what they have to offer thanks :thup:

Only my opinion though.
 
rulefan said:
Which would involve processing and checking all the away scores.

Not sure many h'cap secs or club managers at a municipal course would welcome that.
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Liverpoolphil said:
It’s not exactly a hardship and with IG it’s auto downloaded every night then takes minutes to enter
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Maybe it's an age thing but I thought that one of the tenets of the handicap system was that the handicaps of members of a club would be subject to peer review. If he never plays at his Home Club, how would that work?
 
NWJocko said:
That's absolutely not what I'm suggesting but feel free to presume away :thup:

Given the trend towards nomadic golf, fall in membership (generally speaking) due in the main to cost if you introduce a handicap system like this where people can have a handicap to play in Opens/"Public Golfer Clubs" to get competitive golf I suspect a number of clubs would fail.

Look at the US where the handicap system is in place, their membership model is very different to ours.

Only a concern of mine, I am a member of a "traditional" members club so know exactly what they have to offer thanks :thup:

Only my opinion though.
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Not surprising that the EGU Associate scheme was closed when it was realised that club membership was being affected and was one of the reasons membership was going down.
 
rulefan said:
Not surprising that the EGU Associate scheme was closed when it was realised that club membership was being affected and was one of the reasons membership was going down.
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:thup:

Handicaps in themselves are not the main reason golf clubs exist, they are however the mechanism by which (in your club and further afield in club teams, opens etc) golfers can access competitive golf. At the moment you have to be a club member to get that access, if you remove that......
 
rulie said:
Perhaps the Handicapping Authority has too much (authority) and is afraid of losing some of it? :D
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I don't know enough about it to comment in terms of "authority" or level thereof, whether they do or not it, indirectly, sustains to quite a large extent the viability of members clubs imo
 
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