Just joined Local club. Filling in the application form they ask for the last club you were a member. So they gave golflink my last club and presto my old handicap.
If you believe some of the posts on this forum, you can go up at least 15 shots in a week by just putting in a couple of General Play cards.
Handicaps are now lifetime so there's no way to simply put in three cards and get a whole new handicap. The best advice I can give you is speak to your handicap secretary and explain the situation. The handicap committee are able to increase your handicap to something nearer to what you could play to, but they will/should need some evidence of your ability in order to do so.
As his last handicap was well before WHS, I would have thought the only way to get a handicap is to put in 3 cards, I cant see how he can be given his old handicap.
I hadn’t played a competitive round for 6 years. Signed up to iGolf and they access my last recorded scores from the national database using my CDH which you can get from England golf’s records if you can’t remember it and allocated me one without need for cards.
When WHS was introduced they took handicap records from 2018 onwards so that would cover your 6 years, CDH was introduced just after I joined my club so around 2012/13 the OP will not be on that is his 15 years is correct
Fair one that’s the bit I was sure of with timescale so I’m happy to have been corrected
Good point, hadn't spotted how many years ago it was.
