"How Did I Do" Non Qualifier option.

[pastit]

I was wondering if a club competition organiser who uses HDID could help me. Over the winter there has been a problem with club 9 hole competition course handicaps being manually calculated incorrectly leading to what I believe are incorrect results. I suggested that we should use the "Non Qualifier" option in HDID. My figures haven't been disputed, the only response has been "We've always done it that way". To help compose a reply I'd like to know the facts about this option. I know from a search that scores aren't posted to England Golf so no handicap adjustments take place but from an administrator's point of view are there problems? I assumed it it would be simply flagging the comp as a "Non Qualifier" and it would apply to all players who register for the comp. Is there more to it than this?

 

[jim8flog]

I know nothing about HDID specificly

However if you make a comp a non qualifier there would be no scores handicap purposes and I am not sure that is your intention.

9 holes scores should have handicap adjustments done automaticly if they are being played on a course which is rated for 9 holes.

 

[rosecott]

I was wondering if a club competition organiser who uses HDID could help me. Over the winter there has been a problem with club 9 hole competition course handicaps being manually calculated incorrectly leading to what I believe are incorrect results. I suggested that we should use the "Non Qualifier" option in HDID. My figures haven't been disputed, the only response has been "We've always done it that way". To help compose a reply I'd like to know the facts about this option. I know from a search that scores aren't posted to England Golf so no handicap adjustments take place but from an administrator's point of view are there problems? I assumed it it would be simply flagging the comp as a "Non Qualifier" and it would apply to all players who register for the comp. Is there more to it than this?

Why, if you are using HDID, are Course Handicaps being manually calculated? The HDID system will call up the player's Handicap Index - which it downloads from WHS - and calculates the Course Handicap.

 

[wjemather]

I was wondering if a club competition organiser who uses HDID could help me. Over the winter there has been a problem with club 9 hole competition course handicaps being manually calculated incorrectly leading to what I believe are incorrect results. I suggested that we should use the "Non Qualifier" option in HDID. My figures haven't been disputed, the only response has been "We've always done it that way". To help compose a reply I'd like to know the facts about this option. I know from a search that scores aren't posted to England Golf so no handicap adjustments take place but from an administrator's point of view are there problems? I assumed it it would be simply flagging the comp as a "Non Qualifier" and it would apply to all players who register for the comp. Is there more to it than this?

Please clarify... how these comps are organised, under what conditions, and by who, and exactly what has "always (been) done that way"?

 

[pastit]

Sorry I didn’t make it clear. These are official club comps during the winter/early spring when the course is not qualifying. I thought using the “Non Qualifier” option in HDID should ensure that the 9 hole handicaps were calculated correctly. Handicaps for these comps have historically been calculated manually but several errors have resulted.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

So they are having 9 hole comps through the winter and instead of using HDID to help administer the comp ( and set it as Non Q ) , it’s been done manually and they have been getting peoples 9 hole HC wrong ?

 

[pastit]

So they are having 9 hole comps through the winter and instead of using HDID to help administer the comp ( and set it as Non Q ) , it’s been done manually and they have been getting peoples 9 hole HC wrong ?

Yes, exactly.
I was just wanting to know how hard it can be to set up a comp in HDID as "non qualifier" before going back to get a commitment to use this method in future.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Yes, exactly.
I was just wanting to know how hard it can be to set up a comp in HDID as "non qualifier" before going back to get a commitment to use this method in future.

It’s not hard at all

 

[pastit]

Thanks very much. I shall try to get them to use this option rather than pen and paper!