handicap question??

[ademac]

When the hcap secretary works out your hcap from a card am I right in thinking that anything over a double bogey gets cut back to a double?
I ask because last night I had 36pts with 3 blobs, so does that mean the 3 blobs would count as double bogeys and for hcap purposes I would get 3 more points as thats what I would get if I actually scored double bogeys on those holes?
This would then give me a total of 39pts for hcap purposes and therefore a cut?
I may have got this very wrong and am obviously just scrambling to get a cut but it would be great to know if this was true so I could go to the seceratry with the information.
Hope this makes sense?
Ade

 

[swanny32]

That's how I understand it to work however there is also a margin above and below your handicap where you won't get cut, I can't remember exactly what it is as I switched off when I was speaking to our HC secretary about it a few weeks ago, but for high handicappers if you score within 4 points of your handicap +/- you won't get cut....or something like that.

 

[DCB]

it's calculated on nett double bogey.

 

[Dave1980]

I was always under the impression that your score would be reduced to a net double, therefore this would not change you stableford points, but it can have a big change on a medal score.

As for the buffer zone, where you do not get cut, that is only if you score x number of points under your handicap depending on what cat you fall into.

 

[ademac]

Oh I see, cheers chaps!

 

[0]

never really played much stableford golf, how can you get your handicap cut when you havent completed each hole in full?

 

[swanny32]

If you have scored a butt load of points but blobbed 3 holes then you need to be cut. 36 is the target to play to handicap, if I go out and get 46 points playing off my handicap of 18 and blob a couple of holes then I deserve to be cut.....although this is yet to happen!

 

[ademac]

never really played much stableford golf, how can you get your handicap cut when you havent completed each hole in full?

Because thats how stableford works
You can even win a competition and not complete all the holes, thats just how it is, I'm sure its not a new thing!

 

[rosecott]

When the hcap secretary works out your hcap from a card am I right in thinking that anything over a double bogey gets cut back to a double?
I ask because last night I had 36pts with 3 blobs, so does that mean the 3 blobs would count as double bogeys and for hcap purposes I would get 3 more points as thats what I would get if I actually scored double bogeys on those holes?
This would then give me a total of 39pts for hcap purposes and therefore a cut?
I may have got this very wrong and am obviously just scrambling to get a cut but it would be great to know if this was true so I could go to the seceratry with the information.
Hope this makes sense?
Ade

You are confusing a couple of situations:

For cards being submitted for initial handicap allocation, any scores higher than double bogey are adjusted to double bogey.

In Strokeplay Medal - for handicap adjustment purposes only - any really high score on a hole is adjusted to the score which is one higher than that which would have given you one stableford point.

36 stableford points is what you scored - no extras.

One of the other posts in this thread said that 36 points was playing to handicap - not necessarily so. If the par and CSS are the same, then 36 points is playing to handicap; CSS one less than par, 37 points is playing to handicap; CSS one more than par, 35 points is playing to handicap and so on.

 

[rosecott]

never really played much stableford golf, how can you get your handicap cut when you havent completed each hole in full?

The CONGU handbook contains a table for converting stableford points and Bogey results to Nett Differentials i.e. the equivalent strokeplay medal score.

 

[0]

so you can basically shoot 2's and 3's on lots of holes then NR on 3 and still get your handicap cut

 

[rosecott]

so you can basically shoot 2's and 3's on lots of holes then NR on 3 and still get your handicap cut

Absolutely - you can also be cut on N/Rs and disqualification.

 

[Region3]

so you can basically shoot 2's and 3's on lots of holes then NR on 3 and still get your handicap cut

You could also be 3 under your handicap in a medal after 17, hit 6 balls OOB off the 18th tee, throw your clubs in the lake, walk in, and STILL get cut.


You always get cut if you're below hc (relative to CSS). The 'buffer zone' is for being above your hc.
A category X player has an X shot buffer zone, where if his score falls within X shots of CSS he doesn't go up 0.1


Blobs mean nothing for hc in a stableford as nett double bogey is at best a nett double, so the adjustment has effectively already been made.