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Hi all

So I finally went and joined a club.....

Going there this evening to meet the pro and have a practice (played there before but now I am official :))

with regards the three cards for initial handicap - are they all from the "white" tees? I only ask because I should practice from them I guess tonight if so....


thanks
 
louise_a said:
Depends on what the club require, as long as the Yellow tees have a SSS you ought to be able to play from them if you wish.
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thanks Louise - I will ask the pro later. There is a SSS for the yellows which is one shot less than the whites
 
we allow new members to play in competitions to obtain a handicap if they wish too, the only difference being they must putt out even in a stableford when they most probably cannot score
 
full_throttle said:
we allow new members to play in competitions to obtain a handicap if they wish too, the only difference being they must putt out even in a stableford when they most probably cannot score
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Why would they have to putt out? Doesn't their score get rounded down to a double bogey for the purposes of a handicap? So picking up after their 6th shot on a par 4 should be acceptable. Or have I missed something?
 
ColchesterFC said:
Why would they have to putt out? Doesn't their score get rounded down to a double bogey for the purposes of a handicap? So picking up after their 6th shot on a par 4 should be acceptable. Or have I missed something?
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Because they don't have a handicap, and if it's index 1-10 then two shots could be possible so a 7 would score 1 point,
 
The update is that the pro wanted us to play off whites for handicap so we did.

Had an absolute stinker but nothing to do with the tees. Worst round for a long time even if I did have a chip in birdie. 110 ouch.

still had fun though and have 2 more chance to get reasonable handicap
 
xcore said:
Don't worry about a bad round, they took my best corrected score when I did mine afew weeks ago
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thanks - that's what I am hoping. based on yesterday I would be about a 26/27 when really I can play to 20-22 (possible 18 if I had a great round and got a few bounces)
 
I think generally they work out your handicap from the best card of the three you hand in - not an average of all three. That's what happened with mine anyway. And we were allowed to play off yellows for the handicap assessment as I recall, we just had to indicate on the card which tees we were playing off.
 
Orikoru said:
I think generally they work out your handicap from the best card of the three you hand in - not an average of all three. That's what happened with mine anyway. And we were allowed to play off yellows for the handicap assessment as I recall, we just had to indicate on the card which tees we were playing off.
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The card that will be used is the best "adjusted" card, i.e. where individual hole scores are rounded down to a maximum of double bogey.
 
The way I see it, surely it is better to be given too high a handicap which will soon start tumbling down if you do well in comps.
Too low a handicap and you have the painful 0.1 adjustment up to where the handicap should be.

Despite carding over 100 on all 3 of my HC rounds, I was given a 22 (now 22.1) and this is probably because my best card (103) I had a birdie 4 on a SI8 par 5.

I may be wrong (I am new to this HC lark), but isn't it quicker/easier to adjust down to ability rather than up?

Obviously there are a couple of dangers here...
Too high and you could be seen as a bit of a bandit.
Too low and you will struggle to compete in comps and risk discouraging players from entering comps.
 
GaryK said:
The way I see it, surely it is better to be given too high a handicap which will soon start tumbling down if you do well in comps.
Too low a handicap and you have the painful 0.1 adjustment up to where the handicap should be.

Despite carding over 100 on all 3 of my HC rounds, I was given a 22 (now 22.1) and this is probably because my best card (103) I had a birdie 4 on a SI8 par 5.

I may be wrong (I am new to this HC lark), but isn't it quicker/easier to adjust down to ability rather than up?

Obviously there are a couple of dangers here...
Too high and you could be seen as a bit of a bandit.
Too low and you will struggle to compete in comps and risk discouraging players from entering comps.
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I think they really want to avoid someone getting a handicap that's too high and then easily winning their first two or three comps. I'm sure if you do really badly in the first few comps they would assess it and raise it by more than just 0.1 each time.
 
GaryK said:
The way I see it, surely it is better to be given too high a handicap which will soon start tumbling down if you do well in comps.
Too low a handicap and you have the painful 0.1 adjustment up to where the handicap should be.

Despite carding over 100 on all 3 of my HC rounds, I was given a 22 (now 22.1) and this is probably because my best card (103) I had a birdie 4 on a SI8 par 5.

I may be wrong (I am new to this HC lark), but isn't it quicker/easier to adjust down to ability rather than up?

Obviously there are a couple of dangers here...
Too high and you could be seen as a bit of a bandit.
Too low and you will struggle to compete in comps and risk discouraging players from entering comps.
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I don't think you are wrong in your thinking.

However for me I just want to get the best handicap I can. I know I will get better the more I play.
 
GaryK said:
The way I see it, surely it is better to be given too high a handicap which will soon start tumbling down if you do well in comps.
Too low a handicap and you have the painful 0.1 adjustment up to where the handicap should be.

Despite carding over 100 on all 3 of my HC rounds, I was given a 22 (now 22.1) and this is probably because my best card (103) I had a birdie 4 on a SI8 par 5.

I may be wrong (I am new to this HC lark), but isn't it quicker/easier to adjust down to ability rather than up?



Obviously there are a couple of dangers here...
Too high and you could be seen as a bit of a bandit.
Too low and you will struggle to compete in comps and risk discouraging players from entering comps.
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The calculations usually give a handicap lower than expected by a player. It is usual for a player to get better than their initial handicap as they learn a course. A player who cannot play to the allocated handicap soon gets highlighted if the submit sufficient qualifying scores as 7x 0.1 increases will generate an automatic review.

Handicap Committees are expected to closely monitor newly handicapped payers for either reason.
 
First post so hello forum.

Same situation. I recently joined a club for the first time, and put in 3 cards all off the yellows - 93, 89 and 96 against an SSS of 70.

I've been given 18.0 - which feels like it'll be tough for a while.
 
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