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Here are some tips that will help you navigate through the web site:

  • If your screen is only displaying 2 or 3 holes when you enter the 'Practice Rounds' score card, switch BROWSERS to Microsoft's 'Internet Explorer' (IE). IE will correct this problem and you will get all or most of the score card, depending on your screen size settings.
  • When using Pull-Down Menus, there is another way to locate your selection without scrolling up or down. TYPE in the 1st letter of your selection until your selection appears in the box (IE. TYPE 'S' for Sunset Valley Golf Course). Typing the 1st letter forces the Menu to go directly to the data which starts with that letter. Sometimes your selection will be the first one displayed and other times you may have to TYPE the letter a few times until you get to your selection.
  • If you want to view the Match Play Tournament brackets without scrolling, you need to change your DISPLAY settings for the screen area in your 'CONTROL PANEL'.
  • If you print the Match Play Tournament sheet and it truncates part of it, use 'PAGE SETUP' under the 'FILE' pull-down menu and adjust the margins (IE. .75 to .25).
  • If you want to view more or less text on a web page go to the 'VIEW' Pull-Down Menu and select 'TEXT SIZE'. You'll be able to select 5 different sizes from Largest, Larger, Medium, Smaller, to Smallest.
  • Pop-up Calendar won't open - if you have a Firewall or Pop-up Blocker program installed on your system, try disabling it before clicking on the calendar.  If it doesn't work the first time, try restarting your system, disable it, and then click on the calendar.
  • Option #1 Practice Scores - if you have to use this option because the Course isn't in Option #2 for hole-by-hole scores, do NOT use your Net score for the Adjusted Gross Score. The Adjusted Gross Score is your Gross Score less any strokes over the EQUITABLE STROKE CONTROL (ESC) that you're allowed on any hole (i.e. if you have a 33 handicap for 18 holes then you are allowed a maximum of 9 on any hole. If you score 9 or less on all the holes then your Adjusted Gross Score will be the SAME as your Gross Score. If you score a 10 on one hole and everything else is 9 or less then your Adjusted Gross Score will be 1 stroke less than your Gross Score). 

POSTING YOUR SCORE

DON'T POST THESE SCORES

  • If you played fewer than 13 holes (Remember you still have an acceptable 9-hole score).
  • When you play in a competition limiting the types of clubs used, such as a one-club or irons-only tournament.
  • When an 18-hole course is less than 3,000 yards.
  • When a majority of the holes aren't played under the Rules of Golf, as in a "scramble."
  • Don't post "inactive season" scores.

USGA Handicap Formula

By Handicap Committee

For Members Not Familiar with USGA Handicap System
 
A Handicap Index is the USGA's mark which is used to indicate a measurement of a player's potential scoring ability on a course of standard difficulty.  Potential scoring ability is measured by a player's best scores, and is expressed as a number taken to one decimal place. These scores are identified by calculating the handicap differential for each score. The USGA Handicap Index is calculated by taking 96 percent of the average of the best handicap differentials.

10-1. How to Determine Handicap Differentials

A handicap differential is computed from four elements: adjusted gross score, USGA Course Rating, USGA Slope Rating and 113 (the Slope Rating of a course of standard difficulty). To determine the handicap differential, subtract the USGA Course Rating from the adjusted gross score; multiply the difference by 113; then divide the resulting number by the USGA Slope Rating. Round the final number to the nearest tenth.

Handicap Differential = (Adjusted Gross Score - USGA Course Rating) x 113 / USGA Slope Rating


10-2. USGA Handicap Index Formula

The USGA Handicap Index Formula is based on the best handicap differentials in a player's scoring record. If a player's scoring record contains 20 or more scores, then the best 10 handicap differentials of the most recent 20 scores are used to calculate his USGA Handicap Index.  The percentage of scores used in a scoring record decreases from the maximum of the best 50 percent as the number of scores in the scoring record decreases. If the scoring record contains 9 or 10 scores, then only the best three scores (30 to 33 percent) in the scoring record will be used. Thus, the accuracy of a player's Handicap Index is directly proportional to the number of acceptable scores he has posted. A USGA Handicap Index shall not be issued to a player who has returned fewer than five acceptable scores. The following procedure illustrates how authorized golf associations and golf clubs calculate a player's Handicap Index if the number of acceptable scores in the player's record is fewer than 20.

The procedure for calculating Handicap Indexes is as follows:

(i) Use the following table to determine the number of handicap differentials to use;

Number of Acceptable Scores Differentials To Be Used
5 or 6 Lowest 1
7 or 8 Lowest 2
9 or 10 Lowest 3
11 or 12 Lowest 4
13 or 14 Lowest 5
15 or 16 Lowest 6
17 Lowest 7
18 Lowest 8
19 Lowest 9
20 Lowest 10

(ii) Determine handicap differentials;

(iii) Average the handicap differentials being used;

(iv) Multiply the average by .96; *

(v) Delete all numbers after the tenths digit. Do not round off to the nearest tenth.


10-4. Course Handicap

A player's Course Handicap is determined by multiplying his USGA Handicap Index by the USGA Slope Rating of the course played and then dividing by 113. The resulting figure is rounded off to the nearest whole number (.5 or more is rounded upward).

Course Handicap = (HCAP Index * Slope Rating) / 113

4-3. Equitable Stroke Control

Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) is the downward adjustment of individual hole scores for handicap purposes in order to make handicaps more representative of a player's potential scoring ability. ESC sets a maximum number that a player can post on any hole depending on the player's Course Handicap. ESC is used only when a player's actual or most likely score exceeds his maximum number based on the table below. There is no limit to the number of holes on which a player may adjust his score.

EQUITABLE STROKE CONTROL

Course Handicap        (18 Holes)

Maximum Number On Any Hole

9 or less

Double Bogey

10 through 19

7

20 through 29

8

30 through 39

9

40 or more

10

Example: A player with a Course Handicap of 13 has a maximum number of 7 for any hole regardless of par. A player with a Course Handicap of 42 has a maximum number of 10 for any hole.

A player without an established USGA Handicap Index shall use the maximum Handicap Index of 36.4 for men, or 40.4 for women, converted to a Course Handicap to determine his maximum number.

SPEED UP PLAY GUIDELINES

We have received a number of comments this season about slow play by some of our groups. The following are extracted from an article that was sent to us which we hope our members may find useful in ensuring that they are not the cause for such comments. It should also help to increase everyone’s enjoyment of the game.

  1. Be ready to hit your ball when the foursome in front has cleared the landing area.
  2. Do not wait for everyone to find his or her ball before hitting. If you are ready and your target area is clear, hit and then go to help others find a ball.
  3. Play “Ready” golf. If you are ready to hit, do not wait on someone else whose ball may be farther away but who is not yet ready.
  4. Take only one practice swing anywhere and none on the tee.
  5. If your ball goes in a water hazard, by all means look for it, but don’t go fishing for every ball you can see in the water.
  6. Always park your golf cart (power or pull) or carry bag behind or next to the green on the path to the next hole. Do not leave the cart or bag in front of the green or on the opposite side from the next hole. In general do not leave your cart where you would have to walk back to it after putting is finished.
  7. After you hit your shot, get in the golf cart with the club(s) you just used and go to the next stop. Then go to your bag and put the clubs back before selecting your next club. This cuts in half the number of times that you have to go to the bag and can be a tremendous time saver.
  8. On the green use the time before it is your turn to putt to get ready. Line up the putt, study the surface slope and speed; view it from both sides, all when you arrive at the green or during the periods before or between when others are addressing their putt.
  9. If you missed your putt and you have a short makeable putt not standing in someone else’s line, carry on and finish.
  10. When the last putt at a hole has dropped, replace the flag and immediately move to the next tee. Do not write your scores down, analyze what just happened or have a celebration or collect your winnings standing on or near the green.

We hope that you will find these guidelines helpful and try to follow them on the course. It will add to your enjoyment. If you are on a Par 4 or 5 hole and when you arrive at the tee box you cannot see the foursome ahead of you in the fairway or on the green then you are behind. You need to speed up your foursome and following these guidelines should help. If anyone has other suggestions to help us return to sub 5 hour rounds please let us know.