Key Changes to World Handicap System in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2023
- After listening to feedback and gathering performance data from 125 countries, the USGA and the R&A made the first set of revisions to the World Handicap System! See how these changes enhance the way golfers engage with their Handicap Indexes.
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Couple of thoughts (maybe more....) The handicap system has changed now three times since I started playing in the very late 80's. The problem is that there is so much randomness to golf in general that you could devise twenty different ways to calculate indexes, course stroke rating, course slope rating, course handicap allowances, etc that anything short of the ridiculous would probably be no better or worse that any of the other 19 ways you could come up with. (1) The USGA Handicap Manual dictates the standards for course set up; this allows that the the course essentially plays about the same from day to day under normal conditions. Move the pin back? Then move the tee forward to what's known as it's "A" position approximately the same amount so the hole substantially plays the same from a distance perspective, this effect both the course and slope ratings. According to the USGA, the difference in course and slope ratings change considerably with changes in yardage; see Appendix G in the handicapping manual. Almost no local muni or public access course does this, they have a rotation of usually three and almost never more than four pin positions on the greens and move tee boxes outside of the areas that may need some healing time, rarely adhering to course setup guidelines. 'Nuff about that. Now on to (2) I'll let you in on a little secret - VERY FEW PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO KEEP A HANDICAP, PLAY CASUAL GOLF ROUNDS STRICTLY BY THE RULES AND YET THEY POST THE SCORES ANYWAY ! Oscar Bravo on the first tee? Time for the ever-popular "Breakfast Ball", even when your tee time is 1 in the afternoon! We know, you're a late riser, the baby kept you up all night teething, didn't have a chance to warm up before you tee'd off and on and on and on. Two in the water fronting that nasty par 3? Not to worry, you''ll just drop one on the green side so you're not holding up play. Or better yet, why bother measuring two club lengths or even faking it? The proper way to proceed in this situation is that it's OK to just grab a ball out of the bag, toss it on the ground, fluff it up into a good lie and play it from there ! Couple inches short on that birdie putt? G'wan ahead and rake it back and take the birdie, you would have made it anyway if that big rig hadn't blown it's horn in your backstroke or if this was an "official" competition. LETTER TO GOLF- YOU NEED TO GET OVER YOURSELF! Didn't the LIV Tour beatdown you took teach you anything?
But why should the WHS reflect how you might be able to play in a good day? Surely your handicap should be based on how you “generally play”? Allowing more adjustments due to playing conditions is potentially good. tired of struggling round in high winds and finding no PCC correction! 0:02
If it's a WORLD handicap system why do I have a different handicap in the two countries I play in?
I play in 2 countries and since last year I have only one hcp
Your problem: just report all scores to both countries and problem solved
#shrinkthegame
pages and pages of rules...it's not right.
Your handicap system is biased against older golfers. It selects the best eight scores out of the last twenty rounds played. Basically, the great rounds are counted through the next twenty scores posted. Your handicap can only go down since most of the time, it hardly goes up and if for some reason it does, it is capped for a year after going up three points. So if you develop a medical condition which affects your game, you play with a handicap that does reflect your actual game. Also, you promised a couple of years ago that you would take into account weather and course conditions and that was just a promise that never happened. Your handicap system is just a money maker for you.
By now it must be clear that the new handicap system has become nothing more than a demotivating lottery.
The whs stinks now , take 16.0 to 16.2 thats 16 ok but 16.3 is 17 then my mates one 22.3 thats 23 other 22.4 that is 24 . Our pro off plus 4 does not have a list on the board yet if he played woods he would have to give woods 4 shots pathetic and you call this fair. All you had to do was a bad round up a shot , play better by 4 depending which group and by how many better drop 1 shot per 2 shots so bad 16 becomes 17 shoot 4 better then 14 handicaps it would balance out. Nothing hard .
OH YEAH I DO NOT PLAY ABROAD NOT IN THIS CLIMATE WHEN MORE MONEY PLAYING THERE BUT A LOT LESS ON RETURN . BESIDES ITS COSTLY PLAYING AT HOME IN COMPS AND SECTIONS .
Yes fine . BUT HOW ONE SHOT EITHER WAY OR INCREMENTS OF 0.5 OR 0.1 NO-ONE TELLS US THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT. SO I BETTER MY HANDICAP SAY 40 PTS THAT IN OLD SYSTEM OFF 16.0 WOULD BE 0.4 SO 15,6 THIS CURRENT SYSTEM HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS SOMETIMES ITS 0.4 ON STUPID ????
Don't roll the golf ball back! Stop trying to ruin golf as it is peaking in interest and mainstream appeal
Nothing to see here.
Golf handicapping system going woke now 😳
That's the whole point of it being called the Woke Handicap System (WHS). 😂
Why not muck about again & make it harder...I'm all for change for the better, but this is crap, who makes this shit up 🤷♂️