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CONGU changes 2016 – final decisions

23 November, 2015 by Hew Leave a Comment

Sent over by Graham (Adams)

No doubt Matt will be emailing something similar around prior to the end of the year.

All Changes take effect from 1st January 2016

  1. Manual – It was agreed that a shorter booklet containing the principal changes would be produced to be used as an addendum to the existing Manual. This revision would be limited to 2016-2017. The Manual still to be produced electronically including the CSS tables.
  2. Calendar year to be adopted – 1 Jan to 31 Dec.
  3. Initial Handicaps – to be allocated in line with Annual Handicap Review formula/algorithm.
  4. Handicap Category Boundaries – It was agreed that no change would be made to the existing handicap category boundaries. However a new `Club Handicap` will be introduced for clubs who wish to allocate a handicap higher than 28/36 for use in club run events. This handicap will only be valid at the player’s home club and cannot be used in opens etc.
  5. Preferred Lies – Each National Union to have discretion to adopt a preferred lie period within their jurisdiction. England Golf will remain as 1st October to 30th April, preferred lies outside this period must be authorised by your County Union/Association.
  6. CSS Calculation for men – to include Cat. 4 players in the same manner as Ladies CSS calculation.
  7. Qualifying Nine Hole Scores.
    • a. A score returned better than, or within, BZ will have 18 points added to create an 18 hole score.
    • b. A score returned outside BZ will be doubled
    • c. 9-Hole Scores will be included in the ESR process.
  8. Continuous handicap Review – Introduction of a process to flag players with 7 consecutive 0.1 handicap increases so that Handicap Committees can review and apply an immediate handicap increase if required.
  9. 4BBB Handicap allowance to be increased from ¾ to 90%.
  10. Competition Status
    • a. Re-allocation of ‘c’ status handicap will require scorecards for 54 holes, in any permutation of 9 and 18-hole scores.
    • b. All Unions/Associations to use ‘c’ Competition Handicap Status from 1 Jan 2016.
    • c. Reactivation of ‘c’ status Handicap after handicap lost – if a player with a ‘c’ Competition Handicap leaves club membership but re-joins within a period of 12 months his handicap will be re-instated as ‘c’.
  11. Supplementary Scores
    • a. May be returned at all GB&I clubs of which a player is a member.
    • b. Acceptable over 9-holes (Handicap Categories 2 and above).
    • c. Unlimited for handicaps 28/36 to 54
  12. Exceptional Scoring Reductions (ESRs)
    • a. Table has been amended to reduce severity of reductions.
    • b. ESRs will only be applied based on a pair of exceptional scores (ES)
      Eg. ES1 + ES2 = ERS1, ES3 + ES4 = ESR2

Further detail will be added to the England Golf Website as soon as possible, Please continue to check http://www.englandgolf.org/page.aspx?sitesectionid=563&sitesectiontitle=Handicapping

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