Club Championships

[seochris]

How does your club run the Club Championship and how is the winner determined?

Is it net or gross scores?

My club seems to be dominated by a few low handicap players who have a disproportionate amount of influence. To the extent that the CC is on a gross basis...which in my view makes a mockery of the handicapping system and rules out 80% of the club.

 

[Imurg]

Club Champion has to be the best player so it has to be a scratch competition.
Many clubs run a handicap Comp alongside but the top prize simply has to go to the lowest gross score.
Anything else doesn't constitute a Club Champion

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Club Championship has to be to find the best player in the club

Has to be gross

You can run a HC champs alongside it but the Champion has to be the one with the lowest gross

 

[User20205]

Club champs has to be a gross comp, the best golfer is that with the lowest score. I've won our net champs, it's worth a win and it's got a larger competitive field, therefore harder to win IMO, but give the scratch boys something once a year to stop them whining, otherwise it's no different from the monthly stableford.

 

[Slab]

Nett with a gross comp run alongside

I guess its done that way to make it inclusive of the membership

 

[ManinBlack]

How does your club run the Club Championship and how is the winner determined?

Is it net or gross scores?

My club seems to be dominated by a few low handicap players who have a disproportionate amount of influence. To the extent that the CC is on a gross basis...which in my view makes a mockery of the handicapping system and rules out 80% of the club.

I'd like to nominate this for "daftest post of the year" Do the handicapped players not have an equal chance in every other competition.

 

[seochris]

I'd like to nominate this for "daftest post of the year" Do the handicapped players not have an equal chance in every other competition.

No need to be a compete dick.....just asking the question as it was raised at my club. FYI i voted for gross!

 

[Capella]

We have both, actually, a gross and a nett competition (separate entry lists) on the same day. But only the gross champion makes it on the board.

 

[Carpfather1]

Ours is off scratch off the blues so the course plays close to 7000 yards so a real test which is what I thought club championship was about but I think they run a comp along side it .

 

[Hobbit]

I think the the Club Champion has to be the best player in the club, on the day, off scratch. Every player has a chance to win the gross prize, but in reality very few have the ability to be the best player in the club.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have both. Gross is club champion but there is a separate handicap cup for best nett score. Makes sense as we'd only have a dozen or so that would be competitive each year. We play round one and then top sixty qualify for the second round next day and go out in reverse score order. Seems to work

 

[patricks148]

ours is 2 rounds of stroke play with the lowest gross in one draw and handicap the other. then 3 round of matchplay. gross being off the blue.

Handicap off the white.

scratch winner is the only one that goes on the board in the club house entrance(the only board). We do have a handicap champ but no board.

TBH the best player should be the club champion

 

[srixon 1]

This must be a wind-up.

 

[seochris]

We have both. Gross is club champion but there is a separate handicap cup for best nett score. Makes sense as we'd only have a dozen or so that would be competitive each year. We play round one and then top sixty qualify for the second round next day and go out in reverse score order. Seems to work

Yes I can see that would work well.....there is nothing at our club and the committee tries to encourage people to play as its usually a small field so somebody suggested to making in a nett competition.

The entry is 40 quid for the two days so why would the 'no hoppers' off 10 and above enter. Seems little point.

I like the idea of two comps and there being a decent prize for best nett. Might suggest that! thanks

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Nett with a gross comp run alongside

I guess its done that way to make it inclusive of the membership

So your club champion isn't the one who has the best score on the day ?

 

[IanG]

36 holes stroke play qualifier, top 16 gross scores go into a scratch knockout comp to crown the Club Champion. Top 8 gross scores from cat 3 and above go into a 'B' championship and likewise the top 8 seniors make up a 'seniors' championship knockout. Similar scheme for the Ladies. All the knockout rounds are off scratch and played over the same week culminating in a finals day on the Sunday. Good fun. Only Boards are for Ladies and Gents champions.

The 36 hole qualifier is also a normal medal with scratch and nett prizes so everyone turns out as usual.

 

[backwoodsman]

We don't have a competition called the Club Championship but THE big competition of the year which everyone would regard as the championship - the Apostles Cup - , is 36 holes off scratch. Only players off 9 or lower can enter. Run in conjunction with the Apostles Trophy - also 36 holes off scratch - for players off 10 - 20. So that's a feather in your cap also if you win it. I agree with everyone else. Champion has to be best golfer on the day so has to be off scratch

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Never understood how club champion can be decided on matchplay as that's totally different beast to stroke play.

 

[ger147]

36 holes stroke play qualifier, top 16 gross scores go into a scratch knockout comp to crown the Club Champion. Top 8 gross scores from cat 3 and above go into a 'B' championship and likewise the top 8 seniors make up a 'seniors' championship knockout. Similar scheme for the Ladies. All the knockout rounds are off scratch and played over the same week culminating in a finals day on the Sunday. Good fun. Only Boards are for Ladies and Gents champions.

The 36 hole qualifier is also a normal medal with scratch and nett prizes so everyone turns out as usual.

Similar at our place i.e. top 15 gross plus last years champ after 36 holes going into matchplay knockout off scratch. The best 16 nett scores not in the gross champs do the same to determine the handicap club champ but the gross champ is the main one.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Weird post, perhaps the one person who voted for nett can explain why a high handicap golfer who scores 100-28= 72 should be called the club champion against the member who scores 69+4= 73.