I don't think so but if you read below, you will know why some time your exact handicap is not like you think !

EUROPEAN GOLF ASSOCIATION

ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DE GOLF

EGA

Handicap System

Amended Edition, 1 January 2007

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2.4 COMPETITION STABLEFORD ADJUSTMENT (CSA)

 

The “Competition Stableford Adjustment” is an adjustment factor to be made to a player’s Stableford score following each round of a Qualifying Competition pursuant to clause 20.6

Note 1: The CSA is calculated for handicapping purposes by following the procedure set out in Appendix D.

Note 2: The EGA strongly recommends the National Associations to adopt the CSA system, effective from 1 January 2007.

 

 

APPENDIX D

 

COMPETITION STABLEFORD ADJUSTMENT (CSA)

INTRODUCTION

 

The USGA course rating states: “The USGA Course Rating and Slope Rating must reflect conditions normal for the season(s) when most rounds are played”.

However, often there are rounds played when either the weather or the course conditions are not normal and within the EGA Handicap System these rounds directly affect handicaps. The CSA calculation was developed to determine when the conditions deviate so far from normal that effectively the “normal conditions Rating” does not apply and an allowance should be made to compensate.

The CSA system is based on the very successful system of Competition Scratch Score (CSS) which was developed by the British “Council of National Golf Unions” and introduced in 1989.

In the CSA calculation, the performance of the fi eld of players is compared with the calculated expected performance of these players under normal conditions. If the variation from the expected is outside set limits an adjustment is made to the Stableford scores of all players dependant on how large the variation is.

The expected score is varied according to proportion of each Handicap Category in the field. When conditions deviate from normal the CSA can adjust Stableford scores upwards (+1, +2 or +3) or downwards (-1), and, if conditions are extreme, can even result in the scores counting for Reduction Only with no increase being applied.

Like in the first two editions of the EGA Handicap System the adoption of CSA will remain optional. However, the introduction of CSS in Great Britain and Ireland and CSA in a few continental countries was so successful that the positive results on handicapping can not longer be neglected.

 

The EGA strongly recommends the National Associations to adopt CSA as from

the 1st of January 2007.

 

 

 

C.S.A.

 

Stan’s article on the above is very interesting, but as with all sets of rules, seems to have been written in Greek!!

I thought I would translate it into plain English, so here goes.

This system has been introduced to make the scores in all rounds of golf fair and equal.

The condition of the course varies from one day to another it might be raining and extremely windy one day and calm and dry on another.

It is clear that if a player records a score of par on a day when the conditions are at their worst, then that score is in fact better than par and the player would be cut according to the CSA of that day, which is calculated taking into account the scores of the other players on that day.

Conversely if the conditions are perfect and a player scores 2 or 3 under par, then they may not be cut at all if the CSA indicates that the score equates to par in normal conditions, again based on the calculation of the other players of the day.

 

So if you are cut when you have not broken par, it is not because Stan hates you, merely that he is applying the CSA system in accordance with the rules.

I hope that this will help you to understand the system and it’s application.

 

Merci Beaucoup Paul !