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Re: Whats going on with the handicap

• oskarjoh 793 Posts

  Sat, Aug 11 2012 11:04 AM

  Hi WGT.

  I have been playing for a long time. One thing i cant understand is the changing................ how you calculate the handicap. My handicap is 60.82 and before last update i got my handicap down by playing 31 even 32. I just finished playing Famous holes front, and shot a 29 ............................and my handicap doesnt change  ????????            Has a man with 60.82 handicap...............have to play a 28 to get it down..................Thats a joke.

  Everyone is trying to get handicap under 60 to get to Tour legend........................

  Guys your getting to GREEDY......................................... : (

  Hoping for an answer

  oskarjoh

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sat, Aug 11 2012 11:58 AM

  hi

  I dont have an answer for you because I don't know it. I can just tell you that if you keep posting your best scores,l the rest will be taken care of by the system.

  -wgticon

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sat, Aug 11 2012 12:30 PM

  you just need to start stringing more sub 30's back to back.....in order to decrease the number of the 31+'s from your last 40 or so best rounds....or however many of your last round wgt uses to calculate avg's.

  tbe

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Sat, Aug 11 2012 1:23 PM

  Having been on holiday for a few weeks the movement in my average came as a shock. I have always been none too bothered by it once it got down to below 60 as it then becomes a bit of a joke number. However having had to grind it out from the 66 it was on day 1 of the Legend tier being introduced, it does irk me seeing it go up now :^(

  Never thought I'd say that but maybe I cared about it more than I liked to let on to myself, lol. Still it does get the serious head on when playing, today I have managed 3 consecutive rounds where it didn't go up :)

  That feels like a small victory now......

• alosso 21,087 Posts

  Sat, Aug 11 2012 2:16 PM

  Oskar,

  I'm sure that your average moved, you just may not have noticed it.

  29 gets into the calc. as 58, and I assume that you're beyond the magic 400 rounds.

  Imagine if 32 / 64 were your highest score in the mix, you'd drop 6 points from it (64 - 58), and 6/400 is 0.015 - visible as a .01 or .02 change due to rounding. Even a 4 points change would not stay unseen (+/- .01).

  Nobody can look into your average calculation unless you stored all your Legend scores. Alas, I've more than once witnessed that s.o. did overlook a change or correlated it to a wrong individual score.

  OTOH, I've never discovered a wrong calculation by WGT, and I've been looking into quite a few of them.

  Anyway, the average should not be the most important item of this game - have fun and hit it straight - a 29 says you have none of the meter problems like many others!