handicap difference in team match play.

pissedasanewt

Hi,

I'm playing a four ball better ball match and the rules for handicap say..
"the back marker now concedes strokes to the other three players based on 90% of the difference between the full handicaps rather than 75%".

So i'm off 10 and the other three handicaps are 16, 16, 24. So is it correct that the full differences are 6, 6, 24 and 90% of those are 5.4 and 12.6 (so 13).

So I will be off scratch and the other are off 5.4, 5.4 and 13.

Is that correct?

Long Turn

Yes that's correct.

PARlance

I recently learned that some people really struggle / get confused by the whole 90% calculation. A few guys in my group were going to their bag for their phone / calculators.... it's much easier to look at it in terms of -10%. Take 10% off your HC guys.

They thought they were playing with Einstein.

pissedasanewt

Phew.. actually the more I went through it to write the post, the more it made sense. But no harm in getting confirmation as there is always confusion on the first tee.

Rikand

PARlance wrote: »

I recently learned that some people really struggle / get confused by the whole 90% calculation. A few guys in my group were going to their bag for their phone / calculators.... it's much easier to look at it in terms of -10%. Take 10% off your HC guys.

They thought they were playing with Einstein.

People in general have become a lot stupider since the invention of the smart phone.