Whitley Golf Club

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL MEMBERS REGARDING 2010 SEASON

Handicaps:
• For a member to obtain a handicap, they must submit 3 cards of 18 holes, signed by another member.
• Members must play at least 3 club competitions to maintain their handicap for the following year. This will be monitored by the handicap secretary.
• New, credit card sized Handicap Certificates are now available on request. Please allow 3 working days if requesting a certificate (or if an existing certificate needs updating).
• See www.whitleygolfclub.com for handicap ‘Responsibilities of the Player’.


Competitions:
• Please note that some 2010 Calendar dates have altered; a new copy of the dates can be collected from the bar. Alternatively see notice boards.
• If entering a club competition, a member must sign their name on the competition sheet situated on the relative notice board (mens, womens, seniors or juniors).
• Male members and juniors must pay their entrance fee for monthly competitions behind the bar. Ladies to put their entry money in a brown envelope and into their scorecard box.
• Please ensure competition cards are: named; stating the correct handicap; dated; competition name; and signed by player and marker.
• Players should check their score with the marker; especially in stableford competitions.
• Winners of 2010 monthly competitions will receive a Whitley Golf Club Polo Shirt; players winning a competition for a 2nd (3rd 4th ...etc) time will receive a £10 drinks voucher.
• A minimum of 4 ladies must compete in a monthly competition for a prize to be issued.
• If extreme weather conditions (such as snow or flooding) cause the loss of a whole day of competition, the competition dates will be extended (or rearranged) at my discretion.


Handicap Adjustments:
• Winners of competitions will be cut by two times their handicap category. For example, a player with handicap 18, category 3 will be cut: 2 x 0.3 = 0.6 in total. If however, the winning score is over the course par (66), the handicap will not be adjusted.
• For Matchplay finalists: the winner’s handicap will be reduced as above; and the runner up one times their category, i.e. 1 x 0.3 = 0.3.
• Handicaps will only be increase by 0.1 per competition. This is only if a player is over the Competition Standard Scratch (CSS) plus their category in equivalent shots.
E.g.1: a man with handicap 18, category 3; CSS 61. Thus, increase 0.1 if score is greater than 61 + 3 = 64.
E.g. 2: a lady with handicap 30, category 5; CSS 67. Thus, increase 0.1 if score is greater than 67 + 5 = 72.
• Handicaps are adjusted down by their category, for every stroke (or stableford point) that they are better than the CSS. For example, a lady with handicap 25, category 4; scores 38 stableford points. Handicap reduction = (38-35) x 0.4 = 3 x 0.4 = 1.2.
• Mens CSS = 61; or 41 stableford points.
• Ladies CSS = 67; or 35 stableford points.

Mixed Competitions:
• As the mens CSS and the ladies CSS are different; in mixed events the ladies handicaps/scores must be adjusted.
• In Stroke Play handicaps are adjusted.
• In Stableford Competitions the final points score is adjusted.
• Ladies CSS minus Mens CSS = 67 – 61 = 6. Thus, in Stroke Play over 18 holes the ladies must add 6 shots to their handicaps (3 for 9 holes).
• For Stableford Competitions 6 points must be added to the ladies total points scored for an 18 hole competition (3 points for 9 holes).
• Ladies must therefore tee off from the mens tees in such competitions.

For handicap category buffer zones (boundaries) please see the front of the handicap folder.

For further information please contact me or see www.congu.com




Handicaps: ‘Responsibilites of the Player’

The Unified Handicapping System (UHS) is based on the premise that a player will endeavour to make the best score he can at each hole in every qualifing round he plays and will report all such rounds for handicap purposes.
Any player who fails to carry out any of the responsibilites imposed by the UHS is not entitled to a CONGU handicap.

The player must:
• Have one exact handicap only which must be allotted and adjusted by his home club and produce, when required, a current validated CONGU handicap certificate. The Playing Handicap caluculated from this Exact Handicap shall applly elsewhere including other clubs of which the player is a member.
• If he is a member of more than one affiliated Club, select one as his home club and notify that club and the others of his choice.
• Not change his home club except by giving advanced notice of change which can take effect only at the end of a calender year unless he ceased to be a member of his home club or both clubs agree to the change taking place at an earlier date.
• Report to his home club the names of all other affiliated clubs of which he is, becomes, or ceases to be, a member and report to all other affiliated clubs of which he is a member.
• The name of his home club and any changes of home club and
• Alterations to his Playing Handicap made by his home club.
• Prior to playing in any competition ascertain whether all appropriate reductions to Playing Handicap have been mada or alternatively comply with the responsibilites set out in Clause 20.11.
• Before commencing player on the day of a qualifying competition ensure his entry has been registered in the competiton record, manually or by computer in the manner required by the club or Committee in charge of the competiton.
A player who fails to enter a qualifying competition in the required manner is deemed to have neither a score for the competition nor a score for handicap purposes.
• Enter his current playing handicap on all cards returned in a qualifying competition even though the event may not be a handicap competition. This is required for the calculation of a Competition Scratch Score.
• Ensure that all competition cards in qualiying competitions, whether or not complete, are returned to the organising committee, and make such computer entries as may be required.
• When competing away from his home club produce, on request, a current CONGU handicap certificate authenticated by his home club.
• Report to his home club as soon as practicable all qualiying scores (including No Returns and Disqualified Scores) returned away from his home club advising the home club of the date of the qualifying competition, the venue, Standard Scratch Score and the Competition Scratch Score together with the following:
• After a stroke play qualifying competiton, the gross score returned and any Stableford/ Nett Double Bogey Adjustment applicable. The Union, at its descretion, may require the scorecard to be returned to support adjustment.
• After a Par/Bogey qualifying competition, the Par of the course and the score verses Par.
• After a Stableford qualifying competiton, the Par of the course and the number of points scored.
• Authorise, if so requested, his home club to provided the union with such information as his union shall reasonably require to establish a National Handicap Database and also sign any relevant document which may be required to comply with or satify Data Protection legislation.
• Provide to his home club information regarding scores in non-qualifying competitons if so directed by a union.