What do you class as your handicap🤔

[Tashyboy]

Might seem a stupid question, but it is not my question but something some of the lads said in the fuddle yesterday. And it made me smile.

Am busting a gut to get my handicap down and currently stand at WHS 18.9. However when I mentioned that to the lads, some of the lads said “that’s not your handicap you get 22 shots at Norwood off the whites”.( 19 off yellows).

So seeing as most folk play there golf “ At home/ there home course” what is your handicap.

I know the handicap has changed, but sometimes I think some folk are stuck in the old ways and cannot move forward.

Thoughts please me ducks. Preferably before Monday

 

[GreiginFife]

Your index is 18.9. Your handicap is whatever that correlates to on the course and tees that you play. Don’t think it’s much more complex than that.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Your index is 18.9. Your handicap is whatever that correlates to on the course and tees that you play. Don’t think it’s much more complex than that.

Yep - you have one Index and that’s it

 

[doublebogey7]

It much depends on the context of the question. If asked anywhere off the course I will refer to my index, on the course the playing handicap I have for the course I am playing.

 

[Skytot]

My wife laughs at me when I include the decimal point . “ what’s your handicap now ?” “It’s 10.5 “ Oh don’t forget the .5

 

[D-S]

My handicap index - 6.1

A bit more of a mouthful to say 9 or 8 or 7 or 5 or 3 dependent on which tee I am playing off at my home course.

 

[Mel Smooth]

Many, many numbers.....

 

[IanM]

You can only answer, "your index" otherwise you can't compare apples with apples.

I've never come across anyone answering any different if asked their handicap.

 

[SteveW86]

What your handicap? The answer is my index.

What are you playing off? Then that’s the course handicap for wherever I am

 

[Tashyboy]

The answers are pretty much what I thought.

 

[Orikoru]

If someone asks my handicap in conversation, I tell them my index. Maybe I should tell them my playing handicap though since that is 3 shots lower.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I say my exact is 7.7. and leave it at that. If anyone asks further it'll be because they understand a bit about golf and WHS handicapping - if they don't it doesn't make any difference that I've not given a round number.

 

[IanMcC]

What your handicap? The answer is my index.

What are you playing off? Then that’s the course handicap for wherever I am

This is the correct answer.

 

[Oddsocks]

My left knee.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Fir the sake of simplicity I say my index, as I suspect does everyone. In my head though, I know it's my home course playing handicap, which is a shot or two higher.

 

[Voyager EMH]

"4.5
This year it started at 4.6 and it went down to 3.9 and back up to 4.5
I might come down again a bit before the end of the year.
Last year started 4.3 went up to 5.5 and down to 4.6 at year end."

By this time, if the person who asked the question is a non-golfer, they have probably lost all interest and will never ask the question of anyone ever again. (I hope)

 

[wjemather]

Your handicap is your Handicap Index.
Everything else is better thought of as "strokes received".

 

[bobmac]

74 minus SSS 72 = 2

 

[Backache]

I'd quote my HI if asked, it can't really be compared with handicaps under the old system though.

The tendency is for better players to have a lower handicap than previously and lesser players a higher one.

 

[KenL]

I'd quote my HI if asked, it can't really be compared with handicaps under the old system though.

The tendency is for better players to have a lower handicap than previously and lesser players a higher one.

At what number are they the same?

My playing hcp can vary widely, 2 - 8 on courses I have played this year.
With the old system, the lowest I ever got to was 5.2. With WHS, I briefly got to 3.5 last year.