Got a Handicap Question? Watch Our Live Webinar
In our last email we asked whether a hypothetical player was potentially a sandbagger and the response was tremendous, though it made clear we have work to do in helping players better understand the USGA’s handicap system.
With that in mind, we’ve arranged for a live Webinar where we will explain, among other things, why net score relative to par isn’t the way players should be evaluated in a handicap event. We will also take questions from World Am players.
Please use the registration form to the right and join us for a free, live handicap Webinar on Thursday, July 15 at 4 p.m. ET
If you have a question you want answered or are uncertain about an aspect of the system, let us know, and we'll do our very best to answer them.
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Is there a USGA rules book that is designed for dummies?
#1 what is a target score and how will it affect handicap reduction/disqualification? #2 How can someone shoot a net 60 and get one more stroke the next round,it should have been a 3 stroke reduction?? What section of the USGA rules covers this???? #3 Will there be a printed set of rules issued to all explaining handicapping and a short set of rules in pictures on water hazard, obstructions and cart path drops etc, 80% either don't know or play dumb about what to do. PS at the Dunes last year I had to correct an official on a cart path drop???? #4 Can you list all player handicap service, state,city so all can access, this will give us Peer review which is missing now, and handicap verification!Don't expect to see any of this happen
What is the deadline for submitting a players latest handicap?
Bob Drake
I'd just like to evesdrop on discussion. Is that okay?
I watched the replay of the webinar. To suggest that those of us who believed your hypothetical player was a sandbagger were dead wrong was rather disingenuous. Your hypothetical had Player A shoot -18 over four days....sure signs of a sandbagger in the eyes of many. TO come back later and show since he played four rounds on a course with 66.6 rating and a 113 slope, he didn't even beat his index more than once is the extremely disingenuous portion. SHow me one flight that plays to a 113 slope every day....or a 66.6 course rating. Especially in the 49 and under age group. I would bet the four course ratings average around 71 with slopes around 124 or higher.
TC,
The example we used was, admittedly, highly unlikely to occur at World Am (though there are courses that play to a rating of 66.6 and a slope of 113). The hypothetical scores we posted weren't anyone's actual tournament scores either. The point of the exercise was to try and show why comparing a NET score to par isn't the proper way to evaluate your play in a handicap event. We should have worded the example question differently because it was intended to be about the handicap as opposed to the World Am. Hopefully the webinar shined some light on the way the USGA evaluates handicaps and cleared up some of the confusion many players seemed to have based on the comments we received.
If you have any further questions or comments, please send them along.
Thanks.
Chris