Handicap manipulation - how to address

[nickjdavis]

Are these comments meant for somebody else?


I had been on the handicap committee for nearly 10 years before we did that.

Not sure what you mean by the second para if that is aimed at me.

I think you've missed one of the biggest dollops of irony posted on this forum so far in 2026.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Not necessarily, it might not have been a 4BB stroke play single round competition - it could have been, for example, a matchplay knockout for example and the cut could have been imposed manually by the committee.

It was one of the club’s main match play KOs - a significant board comp - to win it a pair usually have to win 7 or 8 matches. I can ask our handicap sec the basis of the cut..It is a really difficult trophy to win.

My club is very keen to be on top of handicaps and where a cut is merited or obviously required we will do one…there may have been other factors. One of the guys wants to get lower - he was pleased; the other has been a fair bit lower - I think he was less pleased.