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Average handicap in ireland

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,138 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    saintastic wrote: »
    US handicaps are based on your 10 best scores in the last 20. There is an adjustment for each score that you shoot for the tees that you are playing on the day called a course rating and also then for the difficulty of the course, the slope rating.

    If you play with your buddies every week and you all give each other gimmees and kick balls out of the rough and all submit your scores that you think you shot, your handicap won't be accurate.

    But on the other side of things, if you play in a regular society where you are playing for prizes, your opponents will obviously track your score and insist that you submit the right score. The scores that you shoot are submitted to the USGA and your handicap is based on this.

    There is a view out there that the USGA handicap system is actually better as it makes more adjustments for the course difficulty, for example, is a 5 handicapper from Leopardstown Golf Club (no offence to any members) the same 5 handicap as a 5 handicap from Tralee. The USGA system makes adjustments for this.

    It wouldn't be my view that the US system is better.
    I do like the course rating and slope element to it but in general it is way more open to abuse and would kill the game here. Your handicap can increase way too much in the space of 20 (casual or competitive) rounds. Wide open to abuse.

    The US system is much more suited to casual golf, and that's what most of them play. I've seen guys off single figures that haven't played in a competitive round.
    The vanity HC element also discredits the system imo.


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