The New Handicap System is based on the latest World Handicap System 2020. Updated for 2025.

1st part:

Some slight changes for 2025 how many scores counted.

Each Player is given Handicap index based on their best scores.

3-5 Games played = Lowest single score. 6-8 games played average of best 2 scores.

9-11 games played average of best 3 scores. 12-14 games played Average best 4 scores.

 15-16  Games Played Average best 5 Games. 17-18 Games Played Average best 6 Games.

19 Games played Avg, best 7 games. Maximum 20 games played average of best 8.

2nd part:

 Each course has a rating for difficulty known as the Slope Rating ranging from 55 to 155, the norm of your Handicap rating is based on 113. For 2025 this will now add another factor to include the Course Rating which will generally be lower than the par of the course.

Before playing the next match your Handicap will be adjusted up or down by the slope and course rating of the course to be played. Basically  index * Slope /113 + (Course Rating - Par).

Below Is the list showing Current Handicap 2nd column.

The 3rd column is your handicap index which is the one used for each game, it is 96% of Handicap.

The 4th column is based on starting handicap for new players. The next 20 columns are a record of your Differentials being a result from your score of the day Scrolling across to the last 2 columns will show par & course rating & Slope index. Once this info is entered the full column will populate for that courses handicaps.

Handicap System Since 2022

Note 2: As from 10th May 2024. Now that the H/Cap chart has reached 20 columns, as new matches are added the first column will be deleted, This is to keep the result applicable to the last 20 scores of which your 8 best scores will be used for your handicap.

The records from the first column are over 2 years old so do not reflect your current play.

An adjustment may be made for players with less than 4 previous scores if deleting this column has a marked impact on their handicap. Also the result in the Previous Year column will be deleted for those with regular updated scores.