The idea of a handicap is to make it so that all players that compete can play against one another on an equal playing field regardless of what ability they have. In an ideal round a player would play to a par score on every hole, and therefore score 2 stableford points on every hole equaling 36 points at the end of the round.

We try and adjust your handicap every round to make it more suited to your playing ability and as you improve hopefully your handicap will reduce. To start everyone of first time players get given a 28 handicap and it is adjusted from there, exceptions are if
players have pre exsisting handicaps already.

To adjust a handicap after a round we take your score and if you score between
32 and 36 then you are playing to you handicap and we have done a good job.

Scoring less than 32

If your score is less than 32 then we will adjust your handicap upwards to get you closer to where you should be. To adjust your handicap we add ¼ of a shot to your handicap

An example:

A player scores 22 on their round playing of a handicap of 28.

22 is 10 shots below 32 so the player would gain 2 ½ shots to their handicap

That would make their new handicap 30.5

Scoring more than 36

If your score is more than 36 then you are obviously a bandit and we need to adjust your handicap upwards to get you closer to where you should be. To adjust your handicap we would take ½ a shot of your handicap

An example:

A player scores 40 on their round playing of a handicap of 18.

40 is 4 shots above 36 so the player would lose 2 shots from their handicap

That would make their new handicap 16

Final Note

You may notice that some handicaps have decimal points in them. Handicaps are stored as decimal numbers but are then rounded up or down on the day of the round.

A handicap of 7.2 would be equal to a handicap of 7 on the day whereas a handicap of 19.8 would be equal to a handicap of 20. 19.5 would also round up to 20.

And Finally if you win the round then you automatically get cut 1 shot as a reward.