9 hole handicap

arg

I have a handicap of 12.6 , giving me a playing handicap of 13. If I play in a nine hole comp should I play with a handicap of 6 or 7 for the nine holes?

Par72

I'd say you would just take the shots on whatever indices they are due. i.e. whichever indices are 13 or lower on the 9 holes.

kenco

Yes as per the indices. If you are off 13 and say index 16,17,18 are on the front nine then you dont have shots on them but you do have on the remaining holes

PhilipMarlowe

Take the shots where you would normally have them for stableford but if stroke play subtract 6.5 from your gross to get your nett score.

arg

Thanks for the info eveyone

Licksy wrote: »

stroke play subtract 6.5 from your gross to get your nett score.

Seems odd to submit a score to a decimal place. Is this a standard rule or does it vary from club to club.

Johnny86

In a 9 hole comp you would have 7 shots, therefore not having shots at the 2 highest indices (this means you might have a shot on a hole which you normally wouldnt by chance).

If it were the other way round which the other posters are saying then, in theory you could end up with only 4 shots over nine holes (i,e if the 9 holes you played were indices 10-18). and im sure you would like only 4 shots against a scratch player over 9 holes would you?

PhilipMarlowe

I only know what happens at our club.
We have a 9 hole competition most wednesday evenings during the summer. Mostly these are stableford and you get your shots as you normally would. So off 4 handicap I have 2 on the front and 2 on the back. When I'm out to 5, I have 2 on the front and 3 on the back so it makes no difference to me, I get 2 shots in the 9 hole competition (played over the front 9).
When the competition is run as strokeplay, you mark your gross score and subtract half your handicap which can sometimes give a 31.5 nett etc.

It would seem strange to me to receive the extra half shot (rounded up to a full shot) over the easier 9. At my club the back 9 is harder and all the indexes are odd for that reason?

rafared

Usually the holes are indexed in two seperate 9's. We re-indexed our course recently and the first step was to decide which 9 was the more difficult. This 9 ( in our case the first 9) gets all the odd indexed holes and the other 9 all the evens. The net result is if you have an odd number handicap eg 9 you will have 5 shots on the more difficult 9 and 4 on the easier 9. This system also ensures that in match play you always have an even spread of shots, such as 3 on the front and 2 on the back, never 4 on the front and 1 on the back. We used the computer printouts of the average score from 4000 competitive rounds last years from 2 sets of tees to help rearrange the indexes.

PhilipMarlowe

I have a couple of scorecards to hand here and in Waterford, the front nine have the odd indices, at Portmarnock Links the same is true for the back nine. Stroke indexex are (supposed to be) split up in such a way that all your shots don't come together assuming you don't get a shot almost everywhere. You could pick any consecutive 9 holes on a proper card and the 13 handicapper would have either 6 or 7 shots... not 4, not 9.

clog

Just looked in the handicapping system manual it seems they work off the exact handicap and not the playing handicap. Your 12.6 converts to 6.3 which is rounded down to 6.