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BradTheDad wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2025, 6:17 pm Hi Steve,

the handicap system works off a rather complicated formula I developed, applied to your Stroke scores. As you play your first eight rounds it is calculated on the average score across the rounds you have played. After you have played eight rounds your handicap is based on the best eight Stroke scores from the rounds you have played. Once you have played twenty rounds, the handicap going forward is based on the best eight Stroke scores of the previous twenty rounds you have played. Your handicap is added to your Stroke score to determine your Handicap score. The calculations are similar to the way actual handicaps are calculated, adjusted for the fact that some players are regularly hitting in the fifties (which are unrealistic scores), to give you a more realistic outcome compared to par and taking into account the differing abilities of all players.

A far as the Stableford score goes, depending on your handicap, you get additional shots added to the par of the hardest holes, as determined by the handicap for each hole set by the designer of the course. For example, if your handicap is twelve, you get one extra shot on each of the twelve hardest holes. For example, if the fifth hardest hole is a Par 4, it would now have a handicap par of 5. Depending on what the handicap par is, you are then allocated Stableford points (1,2,3 and so on) based on the Stroke score you shot on that hole against the Handicap par (eg, 2 points for a par, 1 for a bogey, 3 for a birdie). The better you score against the handicap par, the more Stableford points you get.

Hope that all makes sense.

Cheers

Brad

BradTheDad wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2025, 6:42 pm Hi Steve,

as far as the Stableford scores go, as you get more points per hole the better you play it, the higher your Stableford points are for the whole round the better. So, in Rd 1 at McCall Cumhann, I came first with 36 points and Juan came fifth with 29 points. The highlighted scores indicate the winners in each round and for each tournament. Sorry, I should have explained the meaning of the yellow highlighting earlier.
Cheers

Brad

Brad, then I came in second with 35?

BradTheDad wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2025, 7:35 pm

Brad, then I came in second with 35?

Correct!