Handicap Question

[jonesuk]

Hi all,

I have a quick question on handicaps which I'm sure someone can help with!

I am not a member of a club so use a free website to track my scores and also use a trusty pen and paper to work out my rough handicap.

I understand how to work it out but my question is do you use the gross score for the handicap or do you use adjusted gross score (ie. reduce everything down to double bogey or less) for the purpose of the handicap??

For example, taking my round today it was gross 97 but I had a couple of bad holes so adjusted gross is 93 when I've reduced those holes down to double bogey. Would I use the 97 or 93 against the SSS to work out my rough handicap?

Up to now I have used the gross score but not sure whether the website automatically reduces it or not for me.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Herbie]

Use the lesser, but in the end it doesnt really matter, what matters is when someone else works it out and you get an official h/c.


Working out your own score is something most golfers do and its good to guage any improvement or understand roughly where you should be in h/c stakes, but the bottom line is that h/c is for competition purpose, until you have one, you cannot really use it.

 

[SS2]

Al scores greater than a NET double bogey are reduced to a NET double bogey for handicap calculation only.

Here's a few examples on a Par 4, Stroke Index 7

25 Handicapper scores 8. Score remains as 8

17 Handicapper scores 8. Score reduced to 7

7 Handicapper scores 8: Score reduced to 7

6 Handicapper scores 8: Score reduced to 6

 

[jonesuk]

Thanks for that guys, will use nett to work it out not gross.

Working out your own score is something most golfers do and its good to guage any improvement or understand roughly where you should be in h/c stakes, but the bottom line is that h/c is for competition purpose, until you have one, you cannot really use it.

Appreciate that but, as I mentioned, it is only to give me a rough idea and something to go on when playing other people better than me.

Cheers