IanM
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Hmmm ... I think I'll just have to take your word for it
Any time the resultant HI is a suprise, it's always best to just smile and shrug.
Hmmm ... I think I'll just have to take your word for it
Basically, we'd also need to know how your Low Handicap Index changed between having one Index, and then from when you submitted another score in which you are trying to predict how your final Index would change. Because, if that Low Index also changed, then that will also impact your final Index.Hmmm ... I think I'll just have to take your word for it
If your low index was 15.3 and your HI was 19.5, then without the 50% reduction over your soft cap, your real handicap index would have been 20.7. so 6.2 difference would work out at .7 to .8 reduction in handicap, bringing the 20.7 to around 20.0, which is above your low cap by 1.7, so halving that would 8.5 which would give a new HI of around 19.2, obviously without knowing all the exact numbers this is an approximation but would seem to show your actual new HI to be correct. Hope that makes senseYep, the soft cap kicked in, so increases were only half of what they would otherwise have been. But I dont know if decreases are affected in same way. But in any case, the cuts were less than half of what 'straight maths' would
At last - an explanation i actually understand! (no disrespect to other posters, it's just that I am a bear of little brain ...)If your low index was 15.3 and your HI was 19.5, then without the 50% reduction over your soft cap, your real handicap index would have been 20.7. so 6.2 difference would work out at .7 to .8 reduction in handicap, bringing the 20.7 to around 20.0, which is above your low cap by 1.7, so halving that would 8.5 which would give a new HI of around 19.2, obviously without knowing all the exact numbers this is an approximation but would seem to show your actual new HI to be correct. Hope that makes sense