| Our league plays at Pinewood Country Club in Spencerport, NY. The handicapping that is set up for the course has caused complaints from our league members for the last few years. Reasons being brought to a point of contention among players teeing off on the Red tees, and those at the White tees. There are two par 3s on the course that are challenging to high handicap players, but very easy pars for the lower handicappers. On this nine hole course the two par threes are ranked as the 3rd and 7th hardest hardest holes of the rankings. One of these par threes, rated 3rd hardest, is famous for applying a two stoke handicap, and makes the high handicapper the easy mark. Even getting a "hole in one" does not guarantee even a half point win. Is there any way we can alleviate this problem using your software? Can't take all the griping anymore. | Author: Gerry 4 years ago 2021-10-05 |
| Not this is going to stop the complaints. USGA Handicap rules determine Player Handicaps and Hole Handicap stroke allocation. Par 3s will always be a sticking point between high and low handicap players. Website does calculate pre-2020 (unofficial) USGA player handicaps as long as the course Rating & Slope data is entered for all tee boxes used. However, the website does not calculate the handicap differential between players competing from different tee boxes. That you will have to do manually. And you will have to manually override points & scores for players that use the pre-2020 calculations below, as the website only uses the handicaps it calculates. Calculate the difference in USGA Course Rating from tees played, with any difference of .5 or greater rounded upward. Example: Suppose the man is playing from the middle tees from which the USGA Course Rating is 73.7 and the woman is playing from the front tees from which the USGA Course Rating is 69.8. USGA Course Rating 73.7 – USGA Course Rating 69.8 = 3.9, with the difference of .5 or greater rounded upward to 4 strokes. Add the extra handicap strokes to the Course Handicap of the player playing from the tees with the higher USGA Course Rating. Alternatively, it is permissible to subtract the extra handicap strokes from the Course Handicap of the player playing from the tees with the lower USGA Course Rating. (See Decision 3-5/1.) Example: A man playing the tees with the higher USGA Course Rating (73.7), adds 4 strokes to his Course Handicap and competes off 28 strokes (24 + 4 = 28 strokes), while the woman competes off 27 strokes. Alternatively, the woman could be reduced to a Course Handicap of 23 strokes (27 – 4 = 23 strokes), while the man competes off 24 strokes. This rule was removed in the new World Handicap System 1/1/2020. | Author: Richard Tawes 4 years ago 2021-10-05 |