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Tap down all round the hole...permitted?
Deceptively Short replied to jobin's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
As these ‘lip protectors’ do not conform to the rules of golf, should rounds played with them in the holes be posted for handicap purposes or not? -
Is a tournament only hcp legit?
Deceptively Short replied to CasualLie's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
As people have said, over here in CONGU land, in reality, tournament only handicaps are the norm. We have a thriving culture of ‘Open’ competitions at all clubs. This is when members of other clubs can play competitions at other clubs in various formats. I, and all my playing partners, are more than happy to play in such competitions both at my own club and elsewhere and believe we have a relatively fair and equal chance of winning if you play well, which is in essence the purpose of having handicaps in the first place. This is certainly the case in singles strokeplay slight less so in bet -
Frozen Greens and Posting
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
It’s ironic in a cruel way as most Scottish courses where play is allowed are under snow and ice where courses down here in the South West have dried out and are fine but we are not allowed to play. Clubs are having to decide whether to have green staff in at work getting more winter work done quicker as there are no golfers in the way or sending them home and the government paying 80% of their wages. -
Frozen Greens and Posting
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
I realise that ‘more qualifiers will be played in ‘playable’ conditions’, my question was to do with playing ‘qualifiers’ in unplayable conditions and the amount of discretion a committee will have. This question is now unfortunately moot as we are now in lockdown again and it may well be Spring before we are back out on the course - it looks as if we have had an inactive season imposed on us! -
Frozen Greens and Posting
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
Good to know - thanks Newbie -
Frozen Greens and Posting
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
The competition committee would check scores and close the competition as usual but the question is whether it should be deemed by the competition committee ‘in the competition settings’ as a ‘qualifier’ i.e. qualifying as a WHS score. -
Frozen Greens and Posting
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
No we don’t have an ‘active season’. In the winter months we have more allowances on ‘postable’ rounds such as the ability to have LCP at the Club’s discretion and the use of fairway mats (this is often the case in more northerly links courses). Otherwise if we run a competition with an acceptable course set up score should be posted and you can pre register individual strokeplay attested rounds again if the course is set up in an acceptable fashion. As we live on an island seasons are unpredictable, as someone said we don’t have a climate we just have weather. -
We run 'Qualifying Competitions' (rounds which must be posted) throughout the winter. On rare occasions the course is frozen and if the frost is hard enough it is considered that playing on the proper greens does little or no damage, is we keep the main greens on and don't move to temporaries which we would use in light frosts. Historically if the greens were frozen on a competition day, due to the total lottery of the golf that was able to be played (it is impossible to hold greens with forced carries), we just made it a 'fun' competition and it was non qualifying for handicaps. Wit
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Is this guy a cheater?
Deceptively Short replied to naval2006's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
I have heard on here that some folks from the US would favour (favor) two handicaps, one based on competition rounds or pre-registered, attested singles stroke play rounds (what we would call over here ‘serious golf’) as used in many parts of the world, and another index based on other formats e.g. better ball and strokeplay rounds. The above post seems to show this to good effect as the player has two widely different indexes, 4.3 and 9.1 dependent on how the rounds are calculated. It goes to show how difficult it is to handicap everyone in a lot of different formats and ways of playing. -
"Shorts must be Bermuda length"
Deceptively Short replied to tw_focus's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
Interestingly ‘no see’ socks would get you thrown off many UK courses. A (very) few now insist on long socks, just below the knee, with shorts but a surprisingly amount still require white ankle socks and no ‘trainer’ socks. Don’t ask me why. I always keep a pair o& ankle socks in the car when visiting other courses just in case. -
Handicap Ethics - Is everyone being honest
Deceptively Short replied to wkndhckr's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
I was referring to ‘you’ i.e. not CONGU when I said in my post “over there” meaning the USA (but it, of course, also refers to other jurisdictions). I realise that net par here in CONGU land is relatively meaningless without additionally factoring in CR -
Handicap Ethics - Is everyone being honest
Deceptively Short replied to wkndhckr's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
With CR-Par being part of the course handicap calculation over there doesn’t ‘playing to your handicap’ i.e. shooting net par now mean equalling the course rating net? -
Handicap Ethics - Is everyone being honest
Deceptively Short replied to wkndhckr's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
I’m not sure how this will work under WHS but normally anyone, over here, who plays ‘regularly’ to handicap in medal competitions is not necessarily a ‘sandbagger’ but would certainly require watching. -
Trying your best
Deceptively Short replied to Deceptively Short's topic in Rules of Golf and Etiquette
It is, I believe, a doubly grey area as the players are not playing with fewer clubs due to choice but rather due to a restriction placed on them by the course which means they are unable to have the amount of clubs that they normally would choose to shoot their best score.