Excepional Scoring Reduction??

[Mag]

Had this happen to me. Had a great season where I practiced and played a lot and was rewarded for it having my HCP cut from 16.9 to 10.7.
But, during the post-season review my club cut my HCP down to 8.7.
Next season I barely had a round in the buffer zone and ended up with 15 +0.1s. Fantastic.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

HawkeyeMS is wrong, and the discretion is available. An ESR of less than 1.0 (or less than 0.5 is that is the recommendation) can be applied by the committee.

Fair point, I always forget it is recommended.

Those scores are quite remarkable, how does someone go from shooting 97 off 12 to playing off of 6 in the space of a few weeks. Looks to me like that initial allocation, or at least the cards submitted were a little high.

I suppose this sort of thing is why the esr was introduced.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

it's way better than that Louise!

12 was the initial handicap allocation last month.....and the guy has now returned a card in competition 1 under CSS :clap:

where are those threads about 12 -> Scr in a year?

I think its safe to say this guy was never a 12 h'cap

 

[hamshanker]

Ive only been playing in comps this year and dont know this guy but i agree never a 12 h/cap but has had some good knocks and been cut accordingly ...only wished my game would come together

 

[rosecott]

it's way better than that Louise!

12 was the initial handicap allocation last month.....and the guy has now returned a card in competition 1 under CSS :clap:

where are those threads about 12 -> Scr in a year?

Maybe it's just my naturally suspicious mind, but I would be looking very closely at the initial allocation and the player's playing/handicap history.

 

[pbrown7582]

Maybe it's just my naturally suspicious mind, but I would be looking very closely at the initial allocation and the player's playing/handicap history.

It certainly raises suspicions......

 

[duncan mackie]

Maybe it's just my naturally suspicious mind, but I would be looking very closely at the initial allocation and the player's playing/handicap history.

Indeed classic case of 'something's not right here'.

Missing, abrieviated history for returning golfer or related would be my expectation.

 

[davemc1]

I get the general jist of esr, and have just had one myself. The last 2 rounds being 6+7 under handicap.

Because ive had the esr do I start again and have to go -4 under hc twice to trigger another, or will it trigger again if I put another -4 in the next few rounds?

Maybe be getting ahead of myself a little, we all know how this game has a way of biting back... 😮

 

[need_my_wedge]

Having gone from 19 --> 14 in two weeks earlier in the year, which included a 1 shot ESR, I looked it up to try an understand. The computer flags you if you shoot more than 4 under your handicap in a comp, and then gives you an ESR if you do it again withi 6 months. I thought you would get another ESR if you shot 4 under your handicap again within six months from then too, but shooting 4 under last week, I was only cut another 1.2 (4 x 0.3). I'm guessing that the 4 under from last week will set the ESR flag again, and in the event I shoot another 4 under in the next 6 months, another ESR will trigger then. But that's just a guess, and after the torrid round I had yesterday, and the subsequent 0.1, I don't think I need to worry about another ESR......

 

[Berger]

I get the general jist of esr, and have just had one myself. The last 2 rounds being 6+7 under handicap.

Because ive had the esr do I start again and have to go -4 under hc twice to trigger another, or will it trigger again if I put another -4 in the next few rounds?

Maybe be getting ahead of myself a little, we all know how this game has a way of biting back... 

It was changed at the start of this year so that after an ESR is applied the process starts again ie you have to have two -4 scores to get another ESR.

 

[davemc1]

Thanks for that fellas. 1 I may of squeezed in, 2's pushing it

 

[Foxholer]

Just a minor correction to RickG's link - as that's the 2012-2015 manual!

Here's the 2016-2018(!) one!

http://www.congu.com/2016 CONGU Manual - Final version.pdf

There have been slight mods to the ESR process.

@DelC Scottish Union opted out of the ESR process - from what I understand, believing that they 'managed' their players handicaps better manually.

 

[duncan mackie]

Just a minor correction to RickG's link - as that's the 2012-2015 manual!

Here's the 2016-2018(!) one!

http://www.congu.com/2016 CONGU Manual - Final version.pdf

There have been slight mods to the ESR process.

@DelC Scottish Union opted out of the ESR process - from what I understand, believing that they 'managed' their players handicaps better manually.

Hardly a correction, more of an update....

It was posted in 2015 when this thread started!