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.

 

[AussieKB]

How do you get cut in a match play KO ?

You score 7 and he scores 8, you win the hole, does anyone put scores in ?

Putts are conceded from distance due to the other guy taking 3 to get out of a bunker etc.

 

[D-S]

How do you get cut in a match play KO ?

You score 7 and he scores 8, you win the hole, does anyone put scores in ?

Putts are conceded from distance due to the other guy taking 3 to get out of a bunker etc.

That is why automatic cuts for winning such competitions were outlawed by UHS many, many years ago and continue to be so under WHS. However performance in a matchplay competition can form part of the evidence for a manual reduction, but should not be the only evidence.

 

[jim8flog]

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

Some times when you are being 'bombarded' with comments it is easy to miss