85% Handicap Allowance for Fourballs

david2002

This is a yes/no answer really.

The 'recommended' handicap allowance for fourballs under whs is 85%.

This is a recommendation only.

Therefore, do club competitions committees have the discretion to apply an allowance of 75% in the terms of their club competition.

It may be something clubs might consider in a bid to bring fourball winning scores back below 50 points!

I suspect the discretion is not there and that the discretion is the governing body's rather than the clubs but worth asking the question

Regards

D

Boards.ie: Niamh

Moved from a quiet part of the site where I have just found it, this is a more suitable forum where you should get some answers @david2002 :)

ShivasIrons

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058215563/85-handicap-allowance-for-fourballs

You could argue as there is one score coming from two attempts that 50% of handicap allowance should be allowed!

75% is a reasonable compromise, and clubs can run a competition in their own club anyway they want to.

gypsy79

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118296929#Comment_118296929

Thats not how it works. Each player is allocated a course handicap as normal. So lets say A is 17, B is 15, C is 9 and D is 3. Then they get adjustment (recommended to be 85% but can be different. Just a recommendation. So OP it can be 75%)

So A is now 14, B is now 13, C is now 8 and D stay at 3

Now lowest player goes zero

So A is now 11, B is now 10, C is now 5 and D has no shots

All 4 play ball own balls but A has shots on index 1-11 etc etc

Interestingly indexes for courses are supposedly designed to be for matchplay not stableford

ShivasIrons

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118298010#Comment_118298010

I never said that how it's works, just was making a suggestion that 50% could be sufficient allowance. The handicap system has a little bias towards excellence but it should be more to encourage golfers to shoot as low as possible and to get as low a handicap as possible. Smaller handicap allowances in fourball and team events is one way of doing that.

gypsy79

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118302103#Comment_118302103

Yeah we should change the Stableford to 65%