Will an expert please clarify:
My handicap index is 18.2.
However on the latest figure available up to 3/10/20 it is shown as18.6 Why the discrepancy please. Realise no scores have been posted since then.
Also when scores are added a 94 will be replaced by a 96. Am I correct in stating the extra2 shots will equate to 0.25 rounded up to 0.3 so depending on the first answers will be either 18.5 or 18.9.
Thanks for any help provided
If you are talking about the WHS Score History, the 18.6 would have been your handicap index BEFORE that round was played (i.e. your Index you used for scoring that round was 18.6). The 18.2 is your Index, and therefore after that final round, your index went from 18.6 to 18.2. If you are talking about what I think you are.
Your final sentence makes reasonable sense. you gross differential increases by 2 shots, and averaged over 8 scores, that is an increase of 0.25. Although, the handicap index is based on Score Differentials, which multiple each gross differential by 113/Slope. So you need to apply a factor of 113/Slope to the 0.25 (this is me thing out loud, but I have been entering member e-mail addresses and DOB into the WHS Portal for the last 2 hours, so my brain is like a pickle)