rosecott
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They’re not recommendations in England, they’re mandatory.
With a proviso. I queried this with our County Handicap Adviser when we had a mix of 3-man and 4-man teams in a seniors comp. On our course, taking 7 players all with HI of 21, the 4-man team had a team handicap of 15 but the poor 3-man team getting only 13 - an obvious nonsense. The County Handicap Adviser agreed and advised not to use the "mandatory" allowances for mixed 3 and 4 man teams but to revert to what we used to use.