Handicap manipulation - how to address

[Thintowin]

So we have a Cheats charter that makes it easy to fiddle your handicap.
Now we need a Snitches charter to report them .

Progress

Agree with that summary entirely. The WHS has broken handicapping and taking a sticking plaster approach is a mug's game.

 

[D-S]

Agree with that summary entirely. The WHS has broken handicapping and taking a sticking plaster approach is a mug's game.

Hasn’t peer review always been a part of handicapping systems?

 

[Thintowin]

Hasn’t peer review always been a part of handicapping systems?

Even if it was, who the heck ever used it? Flood gates have opened on dodgy handicaps. System not fit for purpose. Couldn't be more obvious.

 

[D-S]

Even if it was, who the heck ever used it?

Handicap Committees?

 

[rulefan]

Even if it was, who the heck ever used it? Flood gates have opened on dodgy handicaps. System not fit for purpose. Couldn't be more obvious.

Handicap Committees?

England Golf (and the then EGU) at least twice to my certain knowledge. Also my County Union.

 

[D-S]

Previously systems were seemingly so good that no manual intervention was ever needed?

I wonder why the famous/infamous rule 19 was ever needed?