{"id":774,"date":"2019-06-21T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:37:13","slug":"handicapping-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/handicapping-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Handicapping Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Handicap Systems <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nam old enough to remember the good old days of handicapping where you joined a\ngolf clubs, took a series of lessons from the club professional and submitted 3\nscore cards from which the handicap committee determined your initial handicap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereafter\nthe handicap secretary would review your handicap based on the scores that you\nsubmitted in monthly medals and stableford\u2019s but reductions in handicap were\narbitrary and increases in handicap difficult to come by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then\nin the 1980\u2019s the English Golf Union created a universal handicapping system\ntaking into consideration the course difficulty on the day by creating a\nstandard scratch score and competition scratch scores for the day and handicaps\nwere adjusted on the day by decimal points as we all had two handicaps, a playing\nhandicap and an actual handicap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then\nI moved to Spain in 2004 and soon discovered the joys of the slope handicap\nsystem developed by the European Golf Union and adopted by the Spanish Golf\nFederation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\nthen to discover that most golf societies ,where we all play our golf, all have\ntheir versions of the system making cross comparison of society handicaps almost\nimpossible to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\na mess eh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway\nhold on to your hats because between them all the major golf unions and\nassociations across the world have decided to introduce the World Handicapping\nSystem with the same system in operation across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwill keep you updated with these developments but it will be interesting to see\nhow our local golf societies adopt these new handicapping rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handicap Systems I am old enough to remember the good old days of handicapping where you joined a golf clubs, took a series of lessons from the club professional and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/handicapping-systems\/\">&#8230;..Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}