Eclectics

[rosecott]

Our Winter Eclectic is run with one pre-nominated card per month for the 6 months October to March with 50% current Course Handicap taken off at end of comp. This is always won by one of the "better" players. Do you think 50% is too much to take of the higher handicappers?

 

[MiurasFan]

Our Winter Eclectic is run with one pre-nominated card per month for the 6 months October to March with 50% current Course Handicap taken off at end of comp. This is always won by one of the "better" players. Do you think 50% is too much to take of the higher handicappers?

Well, the results suggest 'Yes'!

 

[Steven Rules]

Do you have data from many years of running this competition? I would start by analysing that.

 

[KenL]

I believe the norm for eclectic hcp is 3/8.

 

[clubchamp98]

I believe the norm for eclectic hcp is 3/8.

So 50% is very generous?

I would expect a “ better player to win over such a long period”
The reason they are lower is there more consistent.

 

[rulefan]

I believe the norm for eclectic hcp is 3/8.

Where did you get that from? The ISVs I have seen only seem to offer 100%

 

[nickjdavis]

Where did you get that from? The ISVs I have seen only seem to offer 100%

HandicapMaster allows you to choose pretty much most sensible fractions from full to zero when setting up an eclectic.

 

[jim8flog]

Our Winter Eclectic is run with one pre-nominated card per month for the 6 months October to March with 50% current Course Handicap taken off at end of comp. This is always won by one of the "better" players. Do you think 50% is too much to take of the higher handicappers?

I run 2 eclectics

One is gross scores only and the other is Stableford points all from the same games. It makes everybody happy as all feel like the have a chance of winning something.
Prior to my taking it over it was only a Stableford points comp and despite several years having the best gross I never won anything.

 

[KenL]

Where did you get that from? The ISVs I have seen only seem to offer 100%

From my current and previous club eclectic.

We've had a variety of hcp golfers winning it over the last 10 years with this fraction of hcp.

 

[rulefan]

HandicapMaster allows you to choose pretty much most sensible fractions from full to zero when setting up an eclectic.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

 

[KenL]

I believe the norm for eclectic hcp is 3/8.

Apologies! Our eclectic is you receive 5/8 of hcp and lose 3/8.

As I said last time, a good mix of levels of golfer have won it.

 

[LizAig]

Our eclectics is 5/8th handicap - usually lowest handicap wins even with that

 

[AAC]

We run an unofficial winter eclectic on a Sunday from late Oct thro to mid march, there is a gross and a nett comp with everyone playing 75% of their h/c at the day the comp starts. You can't win the gross and the nett in the same year. We have an entry of 50 this year of which 12 of the players are h/c 3.0 or better.

As you would expect the gross comp has 8 of the top ten at 5 .0 or better and the other two are single figures.

The nett is more interesting in that we have a four way tie as of this week, two are 20.0 h/c and the other s are 3.3 & 8.9.

For reference with 4 weeks to go 53 leads the gross and 51 leads the nett.

It's been running for a few years now and is very keenly contested, even one of our lads who has just turned pro plays most weeks, we couple it with a blind pairs draw after in the bar which is always a good craic.

 

[rosecott]

Thanks for all the responses.

My feeling was that 50% handicap was a bit unfair to the higher handicapper and that seems to be supported by most of the examples provided. I will be proposing an increase for next winter.