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Friday, January 25, 2013

Golf Using The Handicap System Balances out Scoring For Competitive Golf Play

By Patty Tendow


In order to make golfing a reasonable game between everyone, the handicap system was developed. It is based on the ten lowest scores of the last twenty rounds on a 18 hole course in a solitary season. Now this is not a tough and fast set rule due to the fact that some golf associations or courses urge less rounds to be played in order to determine a golfers handicap. The following is a brief guide how the golf handicap program works.

Handicap numbers are typically recorded for golfers between the 1 and 36. A golfer with a scratch handicap or exactly what may be termed a scratch golfer would have a handicap of zero which suggests that he or she would balance out to playing par on a course. If par is 72 on a provided golf course, the scratch golfer would average out shooting 72 on that course.

Now lets take a look at how these numbers work on the golf course. Lets take 2 various golfers. One has a handicap of 10, while the other golfer has a 20 handicap. The distinction between the 2 players is 10 strokes. As a result, to even the match, the player with the lesser handicap, which in this instance is the ten handicap golfer, has to offer ten shots to his challenger on eighteen holes, to make the golf match even.

Generally on many, if not all golf scorecards, you will see what looks like random numbers 1 through 18 near the bottom of the scorecard alongside Men's HCP (handicap) and Ladies HCP. Number 1 is supposed to be the hardest playing golf hole and all the way to number 18 being the simplest hole. The greens keeper, management, or architect from the golf course, identifies how these holes rank in handicap through a number of reasons, consisting of yardage, slope rating, and other difficulty aspects of each hole.

Now that we've identified how many handicap strokes are to be offered out, where should those strokes be taken? The higher handicap golfer in this example, which is the 20 handicap golfer, gets 10 strokes for eighteen holes beginning with the a solitary stroke for each hole that has a handicap rating of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. This should make the golf match theoretically even, if both golfers play to their normal score.

Just as in bowling, taking note of your handicap and using the handicap system, helps to create competitive and fair play when matched against other golfers who additionally use the exact same handicap system.

Check with your neighborhood golf pro or golf association on an official guide for their golf handicap system and for preserving a legitimate handicap. If you want to keep your handicap in an unofficial way, examine some of the golf handicap software programs or an App that can be found on the internet.




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