THE CAPTAINS GOLF COURSE
18 HOLE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
18 HOLE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
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What are Tournament Scores?
From the Handicap Committee: Posting Scores as Tournament Scores
What is the impact of posting a score as type: “tournament” on your handicap? Major tournaments such as the club championships and club match play championships are to be posted in the handicap system as tournament scores, and will appear in the system with a “T” next to the score. It is up to the committee running the tournament to designate the competition as a type to be posted as a “T”. Tournament scores can be stroke play, match play, or four-ball. Routine events, such as weekly league play should not be posted as tournament scores. The Associations should designate any major tournaments during their season that should be posted as tournament scores. Nine hole scores should not be posted as “T” scores.
If you are playing team play, and pick up because you are out of the hole, or conceded a hole in match play before holing out you must still post a tournament score. Simply take the most likely score you would have made had you finished the hole, no higher than your equitable stroke control limit.
So what does the “T” score do to your handicap? Most of the time, a “T” score will have no impact on your handicap. When you see an “R” next to your handicap index an adjustment has been made to your index because of extraordinary tournament scores. In order for this to occur, you must have posted two extraordinary “T” scores in a twelve month period or within the current 20 scores used to calculate your handicap. An extraordinary “T” score is one with a differential that is 3 or more strokes lower than your index. The differential (the number displayed to the right of each score in the computer) is like your handicap index --- it normalizes scores to a common level of difficulty, since some courses are more challenging then others.
If you have two tournament scores that are deemed extraordinary, an appropriate reduction will be made to your handicap based on how much lower the scores are, and how many tournament scores you have posted in the last 12 months. The reduction is greater if you have very few tournament scores. The reduction will continue until either your normal level of play improves so that one of the scores is no longer extraordinary, or tournament score is older than 12 months. Check out the USGA website at http://www.usga.org/questions/faqs/handicap.asp handicap manual if you want to know more about handicap issues.
Pat Eggers, Handicap Chair
What is the impact of posting a score as type: “tournament” on your handicap? Major tournaments such as the club championships and club match play championships are to be posted in the handicap system as tournament scores, and will appear in the system with a “T” next to the score. It is up to the committee running the tournament to designate the competition as a type to be posted as a “T”. Tournament scores can be stroke play, match play, or four-ball. Routine events, such as weekly league play should not be posted as tournament scores. The Associations should designate any major tournaments during their season that should be posted as tournament scores. Nine hole scores should not be posted as “T” scores.
If you are playing team play, and pick up because you are out of the hole, or conceded a hole in match play before holing out you must still post a tournament score. Simply take the most likely score you would have made had you finished the hole, no higher than your equitable stroke control limit.
So what does the “T” score do to your handicap? Most of the time, a “T” score will have no impact on your handicap. When you see an “R” next to your handicap index an adjustment has been made to your index because of extraordinary tournament scores. In order for this to occur, you must have posted two extraordinary “T” scores in a twelve month period or within the current 20 scores used to calculate your handicap. An extraordinary “T” score is one with a differential that is 3 or more strokes lower than your index. The differential (the number displayed to the right of each score in the computer) is like your handicap index --- it normalizes scores to a common level of difficulty, since some courses are more challenging then others.
If you have two tournament scores that are deemed extraordinary, an appropriate reduction will be made to your handicap based on how much lower the scores are, and how many tournament scores you have posted in the last 12 months. The reduction is greater if you have very few tournament scores. The reduction will continue until either your normal level of play improves so that one of the scores is no longer extraordinary, or tournament score is older than 12 months. Check out the USGA website at http://www.usga.org/questions/faqs/handicap.asp handicap manual if you want to know more about handicap issues.
Pat Eggers, Handicap Chair