How To Handicap Your Charity Golf Event

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We’re all familiar with the standard scramble where players all tee off, then one player’s shot (usually the best) is chosen. The team all plays their second shot from that location. Play continues like this until one player holes out.
These scrambles are lots of fun but are often won by the higher skilled teams. You can however make it more competitive by adding a handicap system to your event.
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Here’s a couple of ways you can incorporate golf handicap system into your tournament.
How to Calculate Golf Handicap
Modified Peoria System
This works well for charity golf tournaments as you’re able to calculate a team handicap after the event has concluded.
The committee secretly selects a par 3, par 5, and four par 4 holes from an 18-hole course. The par-4 holes should include two from the front nine and two from the back nine.
The handicap is determined by calculating the teams strokes over par on the six selected holes, and then multiplying that number by 2.8. This will be the number that is deducted from the gross score. Please note, a maximum of three over par should be used on the par 3 and 4 holes, while a maximum of four over can be used for the par 5 hole.
Calculating Handicap Score:
Team score is 74, with a score of 2 over on the six selected holes.
2 x 2.8 = 5.6 for a net score of 68
If you can obtain handicaps from the players prior to the event, the 50 percent method works quite well.
50 Percent Method
Team Handicap Golf
Add all players handicaps together for a given team. Divide the team’s total handicap number by twice the number of players.
Calculating Team Handicap:
Handicaps of 2, 4, 14, 18 for a team total of 38.
38 ÷ 8 = a team handicap of 4.75
Subtract the handicap number from the team’s gross score at the end of the event to determine the team’s net score.
Amateur golfers all over the world use handicaps. They allow players of widely differing skill levels to have competitive games against each other. Unlike stroke play, the actual number of strokes taken in a match isn't the recorded score. Handicaps are used a little differently in a match-play competition.
Definition
The United States Golf Association defines a handicap index as 'a number that represents the potential ability of a player' on a course with of average difficulty -- those with a slope rating of 113.
The index is a number with one decimal place, such as 14.3, used with a Course Handicap Table (supplied by the USGA) to find the handicap you should use on the particular course you are playing. You and your opponent should do this before starting your match.

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Types of Handicaps
The USGA issues two different types of handicap indexes – 18-hole, which most players think of when they hear the term 'Handicap Index,' and nine-hole indexes, which have a (N) after the number.
If you have only a nine-hole handicap index, double it for 18-hole matches. If you have only an 18-hole index, halve it for nine-hole matches.
Singles Matches
In stroke play, your handicap is clear enough – it tells you how many strokes you get against the field. But in a singles match, there are only two players. The player with the lowest handicap becomes the baseline handicap and plays at scratch, meaning he doesn't get any handicap strokes.
The other player gets his handicap strokes by subtracting the other player's handicap from his. For example, your handicap for this course is 15 and your opponent's is a 6. Subtract 6 from 15; your handicap is 9 and your opponent plays scratch.
Identifying Stroke Holes
Each hole has a handicap number indicated on the scorecard.
You subtract a stroke from your score on each hole for which you are allocated a handicap stroke to get your net score for that hole. For example, if you gets nine strokes, you subtract a stroke from your score on each of the nine most difficult holes -- that is, the '1' handicap hole through the '9' handicap hole.
Handicap Team Match Play
If you are entitled to more than 18 strokes, you subtract the additional strokes from the most difficult holes in order of difficulty. If you received 20 handicap strokes, for example, you get two strokes on the '1' and '2' handicap holes and a single stroke on the rest of the holes.
Four-Ball Matches
In a four-ball (or better ball of partners) match, there are two teams of two players. Each player plays his own ball, and each team uses the best score of its two players. The player with the lowest handicap plays at scratch.
The remaining players adjust their handicaps by subtracting the best player's handicap from theirs. For example, your partner is a 6 and you're a 15; your opponents have handicaps of 7 and 9. Your partner plays scratch, you get 9 strokes and your opponents get 1 stroke and 3 strokes, respectively.
Foursome Matches
Team Handicap
Foursomes matches (alternate shots) add a new wrinkle. Since each team plays a single ball and alternates shots (you hit the drive, your partner hits the approach, you putt, etc. ), individual handicaps cannot be used.
In this case, a handicap allowance is used. The handicaps of both team members are added together; the team with the lowest combined handicaps plays at scratch. The other team then subtracts the low team's handicap from theirs, divides the difference in two, then rounds up to the next full stroke.
Using our teams of 15 and 6 (21 total) versus 7 and 9 (16 total), the 16 team plays at scratch.
Golf Team Handicap Formula
The 21 team's handicap becomes 3 (21-16 = 5; 50 percent of 5 is 2.5, which rounds up to 3). If the players are allowed to both hit their drives, then select which drive to use – making the format somewhat easier – the combined handicap would be 40 percent of the total rather than 50 percent. The team with the highest combined handicap would then get 2 strokes instead of 3 (40 percent of 5 is 2).
