Poll: should more rounds be counting towards your handicap?

Poll: should more rounds be counting towards your handicap?

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 77.5%

  • No

    Votes: 16 22.5%
  • Total voters
    71
Ooh, someone's been reading the Matchplay thread!!

minimum of 6. Better to be 8. Real bandits will still be able to manipulate the system though. Be better to make all these big comps qualifiers.
 
A minimum of 3 cards isn't enough. It's good to have a system that means you have to play to maintain your handicap but it should be nearer 6-10 for it to be more accurate.
The Supplementary route is there for those who are unable to play enough comps in a year.

The most qualifying rounds you play the more accurate your handicap although the bandits will always find a way to massage their numbers.
 
Taking the question literally, I've said No.

Plenty of scope for additional 'competition conditions' with Supplementary cards in the Congu system.

If the 'Slope' system comes in every round counts.

Bandits/Sandbaggers aren't Golfers, so not worth considering in relation to this question.
 
At the moment I think it's fine, we have at least six qualifiers a month I think that's enough.

With regard to new handicaps I do think three rounds is about right, friendly knocks are nothing like comps to me however it may be an idea that some of your first three cards should be generated in a comp.

This could be done where you do not need to pay a comp fee but you cannot win anything either.
 
I used to think 3 was enough to keep your handicap active but I think doubling it to 6 might help against handicap protection

But it also has the potential to help others get more .1's

But I don't think should react like that towards the people we hear about in the matchplay thread - I would treat them individually
 
Where I play so infrequently, I try to stick a supp in as often as possible. If I get a .1 then so be it, I like to challenge myself in comp conditions every game at my home track.
 
actually, rethinking it, my real question to this question would be why? for what purpose?

as well as what sort of rounds etc etc etc

but I guess it's more fun to put that in against the answers received than up front.
 
First of all I do not have a official handicap, but if I did I would expect to submit a minimum of 5 cards because to assess a golfers ability is difficult with just three cards IMO.

The reasoning behind this is; if I were to join a club tomorrow then I would expect to play for a month or so to ' learn ' how to play the course to the best of my ability. Then once this honeymoon period was over I would be perfectly happy to submit 5 cards to gain a true reflection of my competency in order to play in competitions should I wish to.

In order to maintain or gain a lower handicap then I think it would be acceptable to put in three cards in at monthly intervals ( if you do not play in comps) and that way most of the angles would be covered.

Of course if you play in comps the you have to accept that you will be assessed more regularly and will go up and down as is the nature of the game.
 
No, not if it's only being done to catch out handicap protectors. It would make more sense to go after the players and clubs where they play (if they are found to be lax in their duty of monitoring handicaps properly).

For the average golfer 3 is fine, most will enter more qualifiers than this anyway.
 
Minimum of 3 is laughable. Congu expect you to play under handicap roughly 1 in every 10 rounds so I believe, so how they arrive at a minimum quota of any less than 10 is baffling.

personally I think the answer is to increase the minimum to at least 10 I don't particularly care how many are supplementary, but maintaining the minimum 3 competition cards would probably be best received.

I would also scrap +0.1 increases and deal with any handicap increases in the annual handicap review.
 
Definitely. I'd make it five cards minimum for handicapping and I'd like a minimum of 6 comps per year to keep it active. That's only one every two months and so that shouldn't be out of the range of any club member and if it is they need to be questioning whether they are actually getting value for their fees.
 
It makes absolutely no difference whether you play 3, 30 or 300 qualifiers. The trophy hunters will always duff the odd shot or miss a putt here or there to protect their handicaps.

Here is a novel idea.....make all competitions scratch, best man wins :whistle:
 
I think players should be forced to submit more cards, but also you have to make sure it is not being abused by people using it to get a couple of shots back. When talking about affecting people that protect handicaps then it will always be tough to do anything about them. But I think something along the lines of this would probably get people off correct handicaps:

All comps to be qualifying, where possible.
A player must return a minimum of 20 cards a year, 5 of which would be from competitions, the rest made up from supplementary cards.
Handicaps would reduce in the same way they do now.
Players can only get an increase in handicap during the annual review.
The annual review would be worked out against the top 25% of all cards submitted and a players handicap would be cut by 0.5 for every shot their average is under their handicap. ie the average of a players best 25% is 12 over and is currently off 18 so he gets chopped 6 x 0.5 so gets a 15 handicap.

i do not think that banditism is as bad as people think! there is only ever a couple of real ones in any clubs.
 
I am not actually sure what is meant by the question, if its should you have to put more cards in to mantain your handicap then I would say Yes.
 
I've never been a believer that your handicap should only be calculated "when you've got a card in your hand". I think that bounce games should count too - as long as you play stroke/distance rules on lost balls.
 
Imurg said:
A minimum of 3 cards isn't enough. It's good to have a system that means you have to play to maintain your handicap but it should be nearer 6-10 for it to be more accurate.
The Supplementary route is there for those who are unable to play enough comps in a year.

The most qualifying rounds you play the more accurate your handicap although the bandits will always find a way to massage their numbers.
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I agree with this , distance membership has become big over here and the GUI have been very slow to curtail it , they have now brought in a min of 3 cards at your home club to keep your card , IMO thats not enough , the argument is they distance members could be lost to golf if its not available , my argument is golf courses & clubs could be lost .. hard balancing act ..
 
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