handicap adjustment query

mag

played last fri morn in a 36hole comp. my exact starting off was 5.6, and i scored 1 below the css so cut -0.2 so marked down my hc as 5 on the afternoon card, then scored 2 above the css in the afternoon so +0.1, back to 5.5. played the next day, sat & put 6 hc on the card.

however, it only occurred to me today that therell be a clause 19 adjust to my first score (because of a triple, where i played the wrong ball :rolleyes: ), so i will actually be cut -0.3 for the first round.

heres the question - is my sat score disqualified for putting too high a handicap on the card? all scores were away so they havent been input into golfnet by the handicap sec in my club....just wondering what the adjustment will be.

f22

No adjustment takes place until after the competition (36 holes). There was no need to adjust your handicap for the second 18. You can only revise your handicap downwards not upwards.

From what you havementioned you should reduce your handicap by .2 which will make your handicap 5 (exact 5.4) going into Saturdays competition.

PhilipMarlowe

Your Saturday score should be disqualified anyway because of playing from an incorrect (higher) handicap.
You wouldn't be entitled to increase your own handicap for not scoring within the buffer. Those scores have to be processed by your home club and it is only your home club who can apply an increase to your playing handicap. Continure to play off 5 until that gets done.

f22

You will be DQ'd on Saturday because of putting an incorrect handicap on the card. You would still however be eligible to get cut or receive a .1 depending on your score. Golfnet will adjst your correct handicap and adjustment accordingly

PhilipMarlowe

Why couldn't you have a simple question?
36 holes on the same day should mean that your starting handicap would apply for both rounds regardless. However, since you marked 5 on the R2 card then you should probably be adjusted based on that.
So 0.3 of a cut to 5.3 from R1 which is the handicap you should play off until your club updates your handicap. When that happens, you'll probably be 5.5 and off 6 assuming that your Saturday score was outside the category 1 buffer (even though you had 6 on the card!)?

mag

thanks lads. yeah, its a tricky one isnt it?

so, two things i didnt know that youve shown me :

1. the starting handicap applies to both rounds in the same day. so if i had put 6 on my card in the afternoon round i would have been within the buffer zone & no adjustment applied.
one thing though - will golfnet not show me as 6 for that round too then or will it take the hc on the card, i.e. 5. if it takes me as 6 then there is no adj to my hc.

2. even though im dq in round 3 for putting a too high a hc on the card ill still get a hc adj.

so by my reckoning its 5.6 - 0.3 (r1) + 0 (r2) + 0.1 (r3) = 5.4

Paulusmaximus

mag wrote: »

thanks lads. yeah, its a tricky one isnt it?

so, two things i didnt know that youve shown me :

1. the starting handicap applies to both rounds in the same day. so if i had put 6 on my card in the afternoon round i would have been within the buffer zone & no adjustment applied.
one thing though - will golfnet not show me as 6 for that round too then or will it take the hc on the card, i.e. 5. if it takes me as 6 then there is no adj to my hc.

2. even though im dq in round 3 for putting a too high a hc on the card ill still get a hc adj.

so by my reckoning its 5.6 - 0.3 (r1) + 0 (r2) + 0.1 (r3) = 5.4

Round 1: lose .3.

Round 2: for the competition you play off 6, for handicap purposes you are off 5. Outside the buffer based on being off 5 so .1 increase. This increase is not applied by you but by your club and you have to wait for official confirmation.

Round 3: Handicap should have been 5, so DQ'ed from competition. For Handicap purposes you are off 5 so you will get .1 back for this also.

When all is updated, your handicap should be 5.5.

jj72

Guys can you clear something up for me then, if i play in a comp in the morning and i get cut, do i cut myself for a comp that i play that evening? say two different comps

Paulusmaximus

yes, separate/different competitions you'll cut yourself for...36 holes, 54 hole etc competitions, you play off the same handicap as you did for round 1

jj72

Cheers Paul, so for comp where 36 holes played in the one day no cutting till afterwards?