How to get an adjustment?

[selwood90]

What do I do to get a handicap adjustment? Basically I joined my club last October. And got a handicap of 20. But have never played a competitive round therefore never got a cut. But il be honest I am now reluctant to enter a comp because I can play well below my handicap. My bad round is basically my handicap, and being a sportsman at heart I don't feel it right to play a comp off 20 when I know I shoot under 90 percent of the time. Broke 40 today on our front 9 (par 35) twice. After playing 18, finished 9 over. Went for another 9 (front) and shot 3 over, bogey on the last 3 holes. So how do I go about sorting my handicap out without playing comps and becoming rather unpopular after shooting 7-10 under my current handicap?

 

[Hosel Fade]

Put in a supplementary score, your club will have its own procedure but normally it goes

1) announce you are going out and will be putting your card in as a supplementary score (signing a book/telling the pro, depends on the club)
2) play with a marker and play proper golf like you would in a competition (holing out, not asking what club the other lad hit into the par 3 etc)
3) return the completed card in the accepted manner (most likely there is a box for these but just ask)

There are some restrictions on how many of them you can put in, but they have recently changed and I don't put in supplementary cards so I am not up to date


The adjustment then works the same way as a competition result would except that there is no CSS, the differential is taken against SSS only

 

[ger147]

What do I do to get a handicap adjustment? Basically I joined my club last October. And got a handicap of 20. But have never played a competitive round therefore never got a cut. But il be honest I am now reluctant to enter a comp because I can play well below my handicap. My bad round is basically my handicap, and being a sportsman at heart I don't feel it right to play a comp off 20 when I know I shoot under 90 percent of the time. Broke 40 today on our front 9 (par 35) twice. After playing 18, finished 9 over. Went for another 9 (front) and shot 3 over, bogey on the last 3 holes. So how do I go about sorting my handicap out without playing comps and becoming rather unpopular after shooting 7-10 under my current handicap?

Trying doing it in a comp, totally different game with a card in your hand...

 

[KenL]

A couple of supplementary scores would be a good start then get into playing medals.

Make sure you check which tees to use. At our club we need to play them off the yellows (male golfers) and not the whites as the whites are sometimes pushed forward on non-medal days. Members can play any tees.

I think the max number is 10 in a year and only 1 in any week.

 

[chellie]

Trying doing it in a comp, totally different game with a card in your hand...

This.

 

[guest100718]

Just enter a comp. Its not unusual for high handicappers to make rapid improvements.

 

[Oddsocks]

I'd be entering every comp possible. The pressure etc would see if your game stands up under strain and not just in bounce games.

 

[Region3]

I'd go along with enter a comp anyway. You would be the exception rather than the rule if the different circumstances didn't affect your score.

If you shoot the lights out anyway and don't want the snide comments, don't sign your card. You get DQ'd but still get the cut.

If your club are with the times then go the supplementary route, but I bet a fair few clubs wouldn't know what you were going on about if you said you wanted to play a supplementary round.

 

[selwood90]

Cheers, will see if we do supplementary cards then. Re the doing it with a card in your hand, I played alongside a medal last week as 2 people joined us as they needed their card signed. Decided to play off the same tee's as them and under comp rules just wasn't entered and still did ok, finished 5 under my handicap first time playing off the whites. So just wanted to get an adjustment before I get lynched in the clubhouse for being a bandit lol

 

[DCB]

As has been said, enter the comps and your handicap will soon find it's proper level. It's always slightly different when you have a comp card in your pocket, no matter how well you play in bounce games.

Get into the comps, it's also a great way to meet new people.

 

[Oddsocks]

Cheers, will see if we do supplementary cards then. Re the doing it with a card in your hand, I played alongside a medal last week as 2 people joined us as they needed their card signed. Decided to play off the same tee's as them and under comp rules just wasn't entered and still did ok, finished 5 under my handicap first time playing off the whites. So just wanted to get an adjustment before I get lynched in the clubhouse for being a bandit lol

The fact that this is the first time off the whites scares me. Most people would take their h/c from the whites and naturally expect to play better from the yellows due to a shorter course.

Be careful what you wish for here, cuts come in bigger increments that gains. I'd play Comps off the whites and let it level it's self out.

Nothing worse than a hc your can't play to

 

[rosecott]

Cheers, will see if we do supplementary cards then

Every club has to have a system in place for submitting and processing supplementary cards. Don't take no for an answer - keep pushing as it looks like the way forward for you in the short term.

 

[Berger]

Cheers, will see if we do supplementary cards then. Re the doing it with a card in your hand, I played alongside a medal last week as 2 people joined us as they needed their card signed. Decided to play off the same tee's as them and under comp rules just wasn't entered and still did ok, finished 5 under my handicap first time playing off the whites. So just wanted to get an adjustment before I get lynched in the clubhouse for being a bandit lol

5 under handicap wouldn't be guaranteed to win the weekend competition at our place, I'd say a lot of clubs would be the same. And even if you do shoot low numbers in a couple of competitions the ESR system (if applicable to you) will help sort your handicap out. For example, if you went out and shot 7 under handicap twice in the space of 4 competitions you would end up losing 6 shots.