| About Handicaps |
Members of the Callippe Senior Golf Club have two handicaps: a USGA Handicap® maintained by the GHIN service and a "Local Handicap" maintained by the CSGC Handicap Committee. In both cases the handicaps are expressed as Handicap Indexes which are converted to Course Handicaps for a specific set of tees. Refer to the USGA Handicap Manual, the handicapping equivalent to the Rules of Golf, for more information including the definition of several terms used here. If you have not had a USGA Handicap before, please read the information for new members.
Your
CSGC Local Handicap Index is determined using the same formula
as used by the USGA, with these exceptions:
| No. CSGC Rounds | Differentials Used |
| 1-3 | lowest 1 |
| 4-5 | lowest 2 |
| 6-7 | lowest 3 |
| 8-9 | lowest 4 |
| 10 most recent | lowest 5 |
In
addition, Local Handicap Indexes are revised after each club tournament
for use in the next event.
Your
"Tournament Handicap Index" (TI) in CSGC home events is your CSGC
Local
Handicap Index unless you have less than ten rounds in the CSGC
Scoring
Record; in which case it is the smaller of your CSGC index or your
USGA index. Your "Tournament Handicap" (TH) is calculated from your
Tournament Index by taking the rounded product of your TI and Course
Slope
rating divided by 113.
"Stroke Allowance" is the number of handicap strokes that appears on a player's tournament score card. In most events it will be the same as his Tournament Handicap, but in some team events the Stroke Allowance might be 90% or 80% of the Tournament Handicap or possibly some other fraction.
In
mixed-tee competitions, your Stroke Allowance will be further modified
by the rounded difference in Course Rating between the tees you are
playing and the default tees (where the majority of the field plays),
as described in Section 3-5 of the USGA Handicap Manual.
The
basis for the Stroke Allowance will be stated in the tournament
instructions for each event. Remember to verify the Stroke Allowance on
your score card prior to teeing-off and settle any discrepancies with The Committee before beginning your round.
Under Rule 6-6, after the completion of the round the competitor must ensure that his marker has signed his score card and the competitor must sign (attest) the card himself. The Committee is responsible for the addition of scores and the application of handicap strokes.
The Handicap Committee is responsible for reviewing all score cards for each CSGC home event and it will adjust and post the Adjusted Scores to the CSGC Scoring Record and the GHIN Scoring Record, applying Equitable Stroke Control with both the Local and USGA Course Handicaps. Players are urged to check their Adjusted Scores in the CSGC Detailed Scoring Record after each tournament.
Scores from our Club Championship and any individual-stroke NCGA qualifiers (where a player participates) will be posted as Tournament scores ("T" scores) in the GHIN service. All other CSGC post-able event scores are recorded as Home scores ("H" scores).