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Handicap and stableford scoring Questions

  • 27-07-2011 11:16AM
    #1
    Delboy007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭


    I have just started to play golf and have played the same golf course 4 times and mu score has been around the same, I what to work out my owner handicap as I am no way good enough yet, but am interested to know what mine would be about.

    My score so far please don’t laugh. The course is Par 68

    Round 1 96

    Round 2 98

    Round 3 95

    Round 4 100

    Also I would like to know how to score my round using stableford scoring.

    Any help would be great.


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  • #2
    D3PO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭D3PO


    ok so re you setting yourself an unofficial handicap.

    Personally I would suggest you use 18 I think your better setting a goal to play to rather than settling for where you are. Howver if you want to knwio what your handicap would be baed on those 4 cards

    Look again at the cards. Rescore yourself changing any scores above a double bogey to be a double. I.E if you got an 8 on a par 4 change that to a 6.

    Total up the cards and use the average adjusted score to get what you should be playing to. So say the average adjusted score is 94. Then use 26 as your handicap

    as for stableford scoring basically you get points depending on your nett score on a hole (total score on the hole minus any shots you have on it base don your handicap)

    So

    nett bogey = 1 point
    nett par = 2
    nett birdie = 3
    nett eagle = 4
    nett albatros = 5

    If you were playing off 26 as used in the example above that would mean on

    index 1 - 8 you would have 2 shots
    index 9 - 18 you would have 1 shot

    so take your score on the hole subtract your shots based on your handicap and tot up how many points you would have on that hole.


  • #3
    kmcattack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭kmcattack


    Quick question...I presume it's not possible to get a handicap without being a member of a course? I used to play for about a year or so when I was in my teens and had a handicap of 24.

    I have recently taken up the game again and I'm playing a good bit but I don't think I could afford to join a club for another year or so anyway. Is it possible to get a handicap and play in tournaments without being joined somewhere? My last few rounds have all been in the 80's so I would hope that I could get my handicap down a bit if I was playing off 18.

    Thanks!


  • #4
    D3PO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭D3PO


    Not possible to have a GUI handicap without being a member of a GUI affiliated golf club.

    However there are disatance memberships available in clubs with GUI membership from under €200 (Slievenamon and the likes)

    you could get a distance membership somewhere get an official handicap and play in open competitions


  • #5
    Delboy007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Delboy007


    thanks for that, i can not get an official handicap as not part of a club, and i have just started playing and they are about 10 friends playing not part of a club (i only really get out once a week, twice if i am luck), so we are going to have a mini
    tournament so would be good if we all had a handicap.


  • #6
    Waesfjord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Waesfjord


    D3PO wrote: »

    Look again at the cards. Rescore yourself changing any scores above a double bogey to be a double. I.E if you got an 8 on a par 4 change that to a 6.

    Total up the cards and use the average adjusted score to get what you should be playing to. So say the average adjusted score is 94. Then use 26 as your handicap

    Not the average of the three adjusted cards, its the lowest scoring of the three cards I'm pretty sure.


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  • #7
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    brian1976 wrote: »
    Not the average of the three adjusted cards, its the lowest scoring of the three cards I'm pretty sure.

    Yes, adjust your cards so that the worst score is a double bogey on any hole.
    See which of these adjusted cards is the best.
    Then technically you subtract the SSS of the course (not par) from that best adjusted card and the difference is your handicap.
    eg. maybe your 96 might be the best card once adjusted to take off the big individual holes and it may adjust to a 92.
    Par is 68 and perhaps SSS of the course is 66 (it will be marked on the card, different for different tees if they exist).
    The handicap then is the adjusted 92 minus the SSS of 66 which equals 26

    If you were to join a club and submit those cards then you may be given a lower handicap because of the likelihood of you improving quickly as someone new to the game...

    Average is not supposed to be used but we've seen on here that it is used (wrongly) sometimes.


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