How good is your club at updating Golfnet?

steelbar

My home club wouldnt be the best at updating golfnet on a regular basis, which is quiet annoying, espically when you are playing away.

How do you find yours?

BlueMonke

Whats golfnet?

steelbar

BlueMonke wrote: »

Whats golfnet?

Its the central database for hadicaps in Ireland, run by the GUI

http://www.golfnet.ie/new_login.asp

ShriekingSheet

Golfnet is the system and website which keeps track of your handicap as you play competitions.

It works automatically when you swipe into a comp using your GUI card and then enter your score into the computer after the round.

The system adjusts your handicap up or down according to your score and the SSS of the day.


@steelbar

Are you not swiping in to the away comps? If the computer isn't on or working there could be a time delay with getting the cards back from the away club to your home club, then processing them and getting put manually onto golfnet.

Most clubs have an Away Scores sheet on the notice board where you post your score on the board at your home club so the h'cap sec doesn't have to wait for the card.

I'd say maybe have a chat to your h'cap sec.

You could even make duplicates of your away score cards after your round (signed by marker also) and deliver or post them yourself to your home club FAO the h'cap sec. That way the club you play at can't delay the process by taking a while to send out the cards

In my experience of this, you kinda just have to be personable about it. Get to know the h'cap sec a bit so he knows you're playing away a lot and eager to keep accurate records and he'll be much more likely to look after you in particular as efficiently as he can.

I'm not saying that's the way it should be but whether you like it or not, it's often how the world works!

Mister Sifter

Shriek, did your Skerries cards come back yet? Machine there wouldn't let me swipe in that day.

Still nothing through on Golfnet, so i rang Skerries yesterday ans she said she thought they had been posted. She was going to ring me back and confirm but haven't heard anything.

ShriekingSheet

Graeme1982 wrote: »

Shriek, did your Skerries cards come back yet? Machine there wouldn't let me swipe in that day.

Still nothing through on Golfnet, so i rang Skerries yesterday ans she said she thought they had been posted. She was going to ring me back and confirm but haven't heard anything.

No, nothing.

Makes no odds to me though so I haven't checked. All my rounds since starting back have been in the buffer zone or right on SSS so the worst I'll go to including Skerries is 9.2 but I think I'm only due a point-one from the morning round. Could be wrong but as I say, it makes no odds at this stage.

steelbar

Shriek, my club has a problem updating it full stop, for both home and away scores.

Last year, it was updated in late July, the year before was September.
Now I have only played in 2 comps this yr so far, due to exams and work, the first round is up, back in March, but last weekends isnt up yet.

As far as I am aware, the computer will give the the person doing the cards an option to upload all the scores for the competition. They aren't doing that.

But all the handicap adjustments will be up on the board in the golf club on the sunday night.
So to keep an eye on your handicap, you either have to go down to the club or ring them.

Its just very frustrating and caused me to play off a wrong handicap last yr in an open, from which i had to disqualify myself. Didnt have much of a score but its not the point.
And I know that you and you alone is responsible for maintainig your handicap, but if the club aren't putting up the information required it makes it hard.

Patrick_K

I was wondering about this same thing myself.
I played in an open comp in Balbriggan on Sunday, swiped in before and entered a score after but I dont see anything in golfnet.
Does it sometimes take a few days to get updated or soemthing ?

ShriekingSheet

steelbar wrote: »

Its just very frustrating and caused me to play off a wrong handicap last yr in an open, from which i had to disqualify myself. Didnt have much of a score but its not the point.
And I know that you and you alone is responsible for maintainig your handicap, but if the club aren't putting up the information required it makes it hard.

Ok, I know it's not ideal, but what information are you talking about? Why do you have to check the sheet or ring up?

The only info you need is the SSS of the day on the course you played.

Point ones are now applied immediately so you don't have to wait til the month end.

If the computer is wrong and not updated, it's wrong. Just sign in the old fashioned way.

steelbar

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

The only info you need is the SSS of the day on the course you played.

I couldnt find out the CSS on the day, so I used the SSS off the card, it turned out the the CSS was lower and I didnt cut myself enough

ShriekingSheet

steelbar wrote: »

I couldnt find out the CSS on the day, so I used the SSS off the card, it turned out the the CSS was lower and I didnt cut myself enough

If you really wanted to, I'd check this with the GUI.

If the CSS is not available for a comp you can use the SSS on the card- as you would when you play in a society (societies rarely calculate the CSS of the day so you use the SSS on the card).

If the club is late in publishing the CSS of the day it's not your fault. Once you adhere to the rule that as no CSS was available, you used the SSS on the card.

After the CSS of the day was published you could adjust your h'cap from then on.

I'm just saying you probably wouldn't have been disqualified by the GUI.