Handicaps: New Society Rules
06/05/2009
Since the closure of Nad Al Sheba, many of our Society members have taken the option of joining the various seasonal, corporate and mid-week deals which have been promoted. As a result, the administration of handicaps has obviously been more difficult as the clubs, for these memberships, will generally not administer handicaps.
Therefore, the Committee have introduced a simple form of handicap administration based on a version of the the EGA rules:
For every shot over a stableford points system of 36 points, a players handicap will be cut in the following manner:
For example, if a player of handicap 20 (exact: 20.0) scores 41 points, they will be cut (5 * 0.3 = 1.5) = 18.5. This equals a playing handicap of 19 (18.4 would indicate a playing handicap of 18). Note: where we have a medal format, scorecards will be converted into stableford points and adjusted accordingly. Also, there will be no increases in handicap - handicaps will only be cut (reduced) by the Society, not increased.
We recognise that these handicaps will not be official, but we also wish to ensure there is an even distribution of prizes during our calendar year. We will then review at the end of the year to see how successful it has been to achieve this objective and whether we continue doing this task.
For your information, we will initiate this system from our last event at Sharjah. Therefore, there were several handicap changes (a \"*\" represents a change in playing handicap):
If you are a member of a club and do get your handicap monitored on a regular basis, you should ensure that this is updated on the website.
For those who wish to take a more active role in administering their handicaps, there are excellent websites to do this:
(1) oobgolf (unofficial handicap tracker, but great statistics and community site)
(2) Today\'s Golfer (UK): official handicap tracker.
Therefore, the Committee have introduced a simple form of handicap administration based on a version of the the EGA rules:
For every shot over a stableford points system of 36 points, a players handicap will be cut in the following manner:
- H/cap 5 and below: 0.1 per point
- H/cap 6 to 17: 0.2 per point
- H/Cap 18 and above: 0.3 per point
For example, if a player of handicap 20 (exact: 20.0) scores 41 points, they will be cut (5 * 0.3 = 1.5) = 18.5. This equals a playing handicap of 19 (18.4 would indicate a playing handicap of 18). Note: where we have a medal format, scorecards will be converted into stableford points and adjusted accordingly. Also, there will be no increases in handicap - handicaps will only be cut (reduced) by the Society, not increased.
We recognise that these handicaps will not be official, but we also wish to ensure there is an even distribution of prizes during our calendar year. We will then review at the end of the year to see how successful it has been to achieve this objective and whether we continue doing this task.
For your information, we will initiate this system from our last event at Sharjah. Therefore, there were several handicap changes (a \"*\" represents a change in playing handicap):
- Wayne Classen: 18.0 -> 15.9 (16)*
- Wolf Lennert Didszuhn: 22.0 -> 21.7 (22)
- Iain Lachlan: 5.0 -> 4.7 (5)
- Craig McBride 11.0 -> 10.8 (11)
- Dean Moss 15.0 -> 14.4 (14)*
- Phil Stuckle 20.0 -> 19.4 (19)*
- Donna Tapp: 36.0 -> 35.1 (35)*
- Mike Woosley: 16.0 -> 15.6 (16)
If you are a member of a club and do get your handicap monitored on a regular basis, you should ensure that this is updated on the website.
For those who wish to take a more active role in administering their handicaps, there are excellent websites to do this:
(1) oobgolf (unofficial handicap tracker, but great statistics and community site)
(2) Today\'s Golfer (UK): official handicap tracker.