Sometimes It is very hard to be handicap secretary :)
In the golfer’s life, the handicap changes but never like the golfer wants.
The golfer plays well. He is happy to win, to receive the prize but suddenly, he thinks : Oh my God, he ( the handicap secretary) will cut my handicap.
But more often, the golfer do not plays enough good and he (the handicap secretary, again) will adjust his handicap with 0,1.
To help the golfer to understand the handicap secretary decisions, see below :
The handicap adjustments have to respect the categories level.
He won the Capitan’s Day competition with 47 stableford points.
The new index for Les Wilkinson is 14,6 playind 17 in Bonalba
Ruby, a good player with index 11,6 (category 3) won a competition with 39 stableford points.
If you do 0,3 by 3 = 0,9 and 11,6 – 0,9 = 10,7 YOU ARE WRONG
a) 11,6 - 0,3 = 11,3 (Ruby is now in category 2 -new parameters)
The new index for Ruby is 10,9 and not 10,7 !