Determining course handicaps

[Miss_Tee]

3 minutes ago, davep043 said:

Just go read the Rule in question, Rule 6.2b here:

https://www.usga.org/handicapping/roh/2020-rules-of-handicapping.html

Its a bit odd, you need to select Section III, and then go to Rule 6.  Once you're there, its easy, the only adjustment you need to make is for the difference in par between Men and Women.

Then go to Appendix C, where they recommend that your husband goes to Zero, and you get the difference, 5 strokes.  Or you can do as you say, each of you take your full handicap, strokes falling as per the Stroke Index for your respective tees, if they're different.  If you prefer to just use the 5 strokes, I believe they should be based on the Women's Stroke Indices, but I have not located anything that specifically says that.  This is the thing, there's no specific requirement in the Rules as to how to allocate strokes, only recommendations, so you really are free to use whatever method you choose.

 

Thank you. I appreciate seeing the official guidelines rather than just hearing what someone thinks it should be.

I do prefer to have my husband start at 0 and I take the difference in strokes. 

 

[davep043]

29 minutes ago, Miss_Tee said:

I appreciate seeing the official guidelines rather than just hearing what someone thinks it should be.

In pretty much every thread involving rules of some kind, I always look for posts that cite a specific Rule.  There are a number of very knowledgeable folks here where Rules are concerned, and they pretty consistently will do just that, and there are some other folks who don't.  Handicap questions become a little more difficult, because the WHS does allow some variations to be made regionally, but we should still be able to reference a Rule.  

[larrybud]

On 4/14/2022 at 4:51 PM, Mudguard said:

Your 90 is a net 77, his 80 is a net 70 so I'd say you'd lost that one.

Edit. If the handicaps are calculated correctly. It seems odd they would rate the whites for women but have different pars? Surely you'd play those par threes as par threes?

The standard for rating women's tees is different, even from the same tee box, so the same yardage can certainly be different pars. Doesn't really matter unless you're playing Stableford anyway.

For match play, it's suggested that the hole handicaps used are the ones for the person getting the strokes.

[davep043]

8 hours ago, larrybud said:

For match play, it's suggested that the hole handicaps used are the ones for the person getting the strokes.

I gree, but couldn't find a current recommendation.  Do you have one?

[larrybud]

On 4/23/2022 at 5:13 PM, davep043 said:

I gree, but couldn't find a current recommendation.  Do you have one?

 

used to be in the usga handicapping manual, but now I cannot find it. I'm thinking they removed this in 2020.