If the difference in handicaps is 1, (like, a 12 hcp playing a 13 hcp), the better player is more likely to score better on the number 1 handicapped hole, so that's where the stroke is given. As the difference in handicap increases by one, the strokes are applied on the next hole where the better player is most likely to score better and so on.


Not to be mean, but I'm not sure what you are trying to add with the situation you describe.

Well if I am getting a stroke on a certain amount of holes, someone has to get a birdie on a par 3 essentially to beat me. It is easy to win a bet when I know that if I par a hole I am definitely going to win that hole.

The thing is, if you could make pars on demand, you wouldn't be getting shots from anyone.

I can beat Tiger Wood. I just have to birdie every hole. Easy game!

6 pars and 5 bogeys and still shot a 103 for the day because of the blowups. That was the point I was saying. I am capable of shooting par, also capable of taking a 10.

Can someone perhaps explain Adjusted Handicaps? This seems like a great situation for the information.

This should be factored into your handicap if you're doing it properly. Its called equitable stroke control.

I don't remember the specifics, but the highest score I could put in the computer as a single digit handicapper was a double bogey. If I made an 8 on a par 4, I would have to adjust it to a 6 before entering my round.

But that doesnt tell me what I shot? I like to see my problem areas, and what I need to work on to get my score down. If I give myself a 94 instead of the 103 that will not help me improve.

You can write down 103 and take it home to think about your game and enter the equitable stroke control # in the handicap computer like anyone else who maintains an official handicap. It's not hard to figure out.

I'm 90% sure you're complaining about something that's a solved problem, but you just haven't yet read up on how USGA handicaps work.

Example If I am an 11 handicap (on the course) and shoot 88 with all pars and bogey except 2 10's, and I'm playing low net with my weekend group I go into the bar and tell them I shot 77 net with regard to the money but I enter 82 (the equitable stroke control #) into the handicap computer for calculating my future handicap. The GHIN system does the rest. They'll even have a piece of paper on the wall next to the computer saying if your handicap is between so and so the most you can take on any hole is X.

Oh ok interesting. So basically I will have 2 scores for every round? Ok that makes sense. Thanks guys!

The handicap computer is there to compute your handicap, not to keep track of your scores. Sometimes you'll have an adjusted score in the computer. That's the only difference.