Handicaps

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Competition Scratch Score system (CSS).

 

The total points scored by all players on the day of any event is divided by the number of players submitting a score card. The lowest scoring player will be removed to attain a good average. This number becomes the CSS. 
 

Players handicaps score 0.2 per shot over and under the CSS accordingly, giving you each players handicap for the next game. Let’s say you score 32 points off 18 and the CSS for that event was 27. You are 5 points over that score at 0.2 per point, 5x0.2 = 1. So your next handicap goes down by 1 shot in this case 17 will be the new handicap. If you’ve had a bad round and scored 20 off 18 you are 7 points under the CSS at 0.2 per point, 7x0.2 =1.4. So your next handicap will go up to 19.4. 
To level out the handicaps, scores will be rounded down with a 0.1 to 0.4 at the end and rounded up with a 0.5 to 0.9 at the end. So 19.4 becomes 19 for the next game and let’s say 19.8 becomes 20 for the next game. This keeps it clean for ease of scoring. 
There is no additional penalty for 1st 2nd or 3rd place.

 

The CSS system hits the winning players with high scores and boosts those players with lower scores. This will tend to signify how the course has played on the day. So a player winning at a hard course with 30 points (well below the 36 par) will only drop points fairly. Also players who hit low scores will accrue more shots faster levelling the field more frequently.

 

So in summary 
All scores added but the lowest score will be removed (we have had single figures) this creates more shots for the lower scorers. Divide the days total score by number of players and this creates the CSS. Handicaps will be worked out by a 0.2 deduction or addition per point above or below that CSS. 

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Playing handicaps will be eventually averaged out over 4 scores. So individuals cannot purposely throw a bad score in to achieve more shots for the next game.