ecletic handicap

[spudgun007]

anybody out there that knows what an ecletic handicap is may be able to help me.

If you were going to review somebody's handicap, could you do an ecletic to argue your case for redutions or increases.

I believe you cannot use ecletic for any reason when reviewing a handicap.

Why ?? well ecletic is the best score you made on each hole over a period of maybe 20 30 rounds of golf, what your fantasy round of golf would look like.
these stats are available with any congu software

what do you out there think

also we have a handicap sec that does the double bogey gross for new members and when thats worked out over the 3 cards they submitted "also adds two more shots for the course" is this correct ????

 

[brendy]

The way it should be done in my eyes is as at least three cards, worst card tossed aside and an average of the other two, this makes for a realistic handicap that wont be impossible to stick to but will require decent performances to beat.
Ecclectic handicapping would be a joke mate, that means someone could end up with a + handicap when they couldnt even play to 10 regularly.

 

[SS2]

An "eclectic handicap", if such a thing exists, might have some relation to a player's actual handicap but is much more likely to be influenced by the number of rounds included in the eclectic calculations. 61 rounds off the white tees at my home course say I am round in 54 (16 under par).

My mate who plays off 3 has an eclectic 70 on the same course from 5 rounds. Which is better?

Eclectic best (and worst) scores are interesting but nothing more. The number of rounds played is far more important that the player's handicap.

 

[ianmc]

totally agree brendy never even heard of eclectic handicap before but it would make no sense.like you said someone could be off +2 and struggle to break 80.ian mc

 

[Dave3498]

Eclectic handicap? Never heard of it.

 

[Marko77]

If you were going to review somebody's handicap, could you do an ecletic to argue your case for redutions or increases.

It would be a weak argument and a wrong one. Gross/Nett returns against CSS or SSS should be the primary source of information when looking to award or review a handicap.