THE latest round of Golf Australia handicap changes will come into effect on Wednesday 21st September 2011.
The four priority amendments are basically aimed at making it easier for handicaps to go down and harder for them to quickly blow out.
The four changes are:
- Alter the Best 10 of 20 rounds to Best 8 of 20.
- Change the Bonus for Excellence multiplier from 0.96 to 0.93.
- Introduce an Anchor which will prevent a player’s handicap from increasing any more than four strokes beyond their best exact handicap from the previous 12- month rolling period. (This is obviously retrospective as of next Wednesday going back to 21st September 2010)
- Golf Link will cap the score that goes into a player’s handicap record at no more than the following amount over the course rating: 50 for women and 40 men.
The Golf Link website will be offline from 1.00pm (AEST) on Monday 19 September until 6.00pm (AEST) on Wednesday 21 September to allow for the changeover to take place.
We previously discussed these changes in more detail here
Will be interesting to see what effect this has on the current handicaps. I know being a single figure handicap mine very rarely moves out but as soon as you play one good round it immediately comes down.
I await for interest.
Cheers