Handicap in societies

Running Balance

Joined a society across the water, have played three games and they have given me a handicap of 19. My scores for those three cards was 30,32,25. Is this handicap not a bit low was expecting 21/22. The issue I have is that if you play to your handicap once over the twenty outings you qualify for the year end tournament. Don't want to complain as I m new to the guys without having a basis.

Rikand

you play in their society, you play by their rules

Though shooting a 30 and a 32 means to them you have room for improvement and if you were going to join a golf club, you could expect to be awarded a similar handicap

alxmorgan

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

you play in their society, you play by their rules

Though shooting a 30 and a 32 means to them you have room for improvement and if you were going to join a golf club, you could expect to be awarded a similar handicap

Lower I would think. I had 3 cards of low 20s and was given 18 in my club

Running Balance

I thought all new members for clubs were given to stop bandits. About to tee off so we LL see...

Ronney

All handicaps have a Buffer Zone, ie if you shoot with in a certain number of shots of your handicap it does not go up.

This ranges from +1 to +4 depending on your handicap. Think the cut off for category 3 (+3) is 19 h/c so your just out side this, i.e a 19 h/c would be expected to shoot 33 points at least.

Most society's would air on the side of caution so your round about the fare number

(Ignoring CSS here)

stockdam

If you scored 32 points once in three outings off 19 then I'd say the handicap was fair. You've only to improve by 4 shots to play to your handicap.

The other thing to note is that a society can use whatever criteria it wishes to determine handicaps. Generally they try to avoid the same people winning every week.

slave1

Society handicap is about distribution of prizes, it is not related to golfing ability

Running Balance

Cheers lads, hit 34 today, so obviously I was mistaken. Must work on getting down.