Unified Handicapping -System in detail
Unified Handicapping -System in detail
7. Responsibilities of the Handicap Committee
Subject to the overall jurisdiction of the Union, the Handicap Committee has specific responsibility for the allotment and maintenance of handicaps as delegated to Affiliated Clubs.
The Handicap Committee must:
7.1 Allot and maintain handicaps of its Members in accordance with Clauses 16 and 20 of the UHS.
7.2 Maintain a record, manually or by computer, in which the names of competitors, on the day of the competition, must be entered prior to competing in a Qualifying Competition at the club.
7.3 Ensure, so far as possible, that all cards taken out in Qualifying Competitions are returned to the Committee including incomplete cards.
7.4 At the conclusion of each round of a Qualifying Competition calculate the Competition Scratch Score as required by Clause 18.
7.5 Display in a prominent position at the club all alterations to the Playing Handicaps of Members immediately they are made.
7.6 Ensure that a record of Members' current Exact Handicaps and Playing Handicaps is available in a prominent position at the club.
7.7 When the club is a player's Home Club:
- (a) Maintain on his behalf a handicap record sheet which shall include all the information shown in Appendix I, Table A.
- (b) Ensure his scores are recorded as soon as practicable after completion of each Qualifying Competition at his Home Club or after the reporting of a Qualifying Score returned elsewhere, and that all Exact Handicaps are calculated in relation to scores recorded in chronological order.
- (c) Keep his Exact Handicap up to date at all times.
- (d) Unless some other body has been appointed by the Home Club for this purpose, exercise the power to suspend handicaps contained in Clause 24.
- (e) When a Member changes his Home Club send to the new Home Club a copy of the player's current handicap record sheet.
- (f) Specify the conditions which apply when a player wishes to obtain a handicap under the provisions of Clause 16.
- (g) Exercise the powers to adjust players' handicaps contained in Clause 23.
- (h) As required by Clause 23.5 advise players of changes made to their handicaps under the provisions of Clause 23.
- (i) Prior to 1st March each year the Handicap Committee must undertake a review of the handicaps of all Members for whom the club is the Home Club and make such handicap adjustment as may be appropriate under the provisions of Clause 23 and Appendix M.
- (j) Specify the manner by which 'away' Qualifying Scores must be reported by a Member to his Home Club – see Clause 8.10.