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Handicap not changing

• kylegordon 2 Posts

  Sun, Oct 22 2017 11:30 PM

  Hi,

  So far my handicap has been decreasing for every game.  Today I won a multiplayer game with a score of 3 under par. But my handicap did not decrease.  Just now I played a single player game at par and again my handicap did not change.  Anyone who has had the same problem?

  Tom

   

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Mon, Oct 23 2017 9:51 AM

  Best of par 3 and par 5 courses do not count toward averages.

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Mon, Oct 23 2017 10:27 AM

  the last stroke play course you played was bethpage black

• DodgyPutter 4,690 Posts

  Mon, Oct 23 2017 10:41 AM

  As said above bop 3 and 5 don't count, the recent ones you talk about were both on bop 5. You also should not think about -3, level par etc. Your average is worked out on scores, as in the number of strokes not how many over or under par.
  
  If you score 38 (or 77) in a ranked round your average will go down and it wont matter if it's +2, +3 or +4.

• Robert1893 7,680 Posts

  Mon, Oct 23 2017 11:07 AM

  As just an aside, it's not a "handicap." What you're referring to is simply your average.

• JimbeauC 5,835 Posts

  Wed, Oct 25 2017 11:22 AM

  Just noticed that Community Help just hit 14000 threads.
  
  Wonder how many of those were questions about averages?
  
  :^)

• alosso 21,043 Posts

  Wed, Oct 25 2017 1:14 PM

  A lot, Jim!

  But it diminished over the course of this year - less new players? - more mobile players?