First, this isn't a forum on opinions on handicaps. Rules are rules. Move along.

For an annual tournament we've not used Handicap Allowances for our Match, Skins, and Scramble rounds. Instead the organizer has applied a reduction of points for "junk points" -- Birdies, Eagles, Albatrosses, Sandies, and Chippies.

"Naturals" are worth more than "Bastards". Birdies 5/3, Eagles 10/7, Albatrosses 15/12, Sandies 5/3, and Chippies 5/3. It seemed to me that this wasn't an equitable solution for high vs low handicappers. We first earn all junk against the course, not against your opponent.

Compared to the Handicap Index advice on Handicap Allowances, these reductions are onerous. 60%, 70% and 80% of full point value. I imagine they were arrived at by the likelihood of earning each. Eagle more difficult than birdie etc.

I've been trying to adopt a method that achieves the equitable goal of Handicap Allowances but applied to junk. I found a "probability table" the USGA published on the odds of scoring below your Index by round by handicap (https://oga.org/sites/default/files/...ty%20Table.pdf) . Not sure if I can extrapolate those odds to the odds of high and low handicappers achieving -1, -2, and -3 on any give hole.

Has anyone else attacked this problem in your tournaments? If I simply apply Handicap Allowances to the tournament, say 95%, the numbers don't really move that much. Only the Albatross gives up a stroke.

Thanks in advance for any positive help.