Interesting - both our players who attracted penalty scores have now been given a HI cut. Doesn't feel right to me but as EG are not communicating I guess they have decided it's OK to improve without playing.
As Ian said, more often than not, CR+Course Handicap penalty score will get a minor handicap cut, unless the oldest score being lost was one of the players best (one of their top 3 or 4 scores)
Well, their only caveat will be if their 20th oldest score was one of their very top scores. So, I'd estimate 75-85% of the time it would result in a decrease in Index.
Were you talking to the janitor at England Golf? If it was someone through their support, it is handy if they give the job to people that understand the basics at least
Sounds like your club simply haven't configured booking correctly.
True. However, many people only play March/April to October anyway, and many of the rest will not submit scores for handicap over winter (due to unrated courses, unacceptable local rules, etc.).
But note that
As do we, but only having a little over 4 hours of daylight tee times in winter inevitably reduces competition entries. We are also fortunate to have a free draining course in southern England, and have our winter tees rated - even so, we still lose at least a month of comps each year to bad weather (frost, sub-zero temperatures, snow, prolonged heavy rain, etc.). Many clubs are severely hampered by wet weather, are not setup acceptably for WHS, or are still battling with county raters to get their winter tees rated.
Agreed, and we have maybe half a dozen at most that we'd look at on that basis. But I wouldn't like to look at any and adjust them without seeing what a level playing field report would throw out for all players. Our problem seems to be that Scottish Golf haven't been able to create a report like we used to get from Club 2000, they're saying Feb for the release, but that's rather cutting things fine.
