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Re: Tips on how to run a CC Handicap Tournament

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Tue, Feb 12 2013 7:40 AM

  Lisa03:

  Frankly, there is no way to handicap a WGT Tourney. Period. Most players here WD from RGs to protect their avg. Others deliberately shoot high scores to sandbag. Some even put in all their scores-good bad ugly. Once you reach a certain number of Ranked Rds in a Tier, your avg will not go up. That's a real problem WGT has.

  That's the most sense I've read on here in a long time. Whatever an owner does it will upset somebody. If the best player never gets to win then they won't stay around for long. The Country Club system on here needs a radical overhaul, starting with the ability to sort tournaments for each tier and the sooner they let us have more than ten free tournaments at one time the better. 

• carolineRobert 1,821 Posts

  Tue, Feb 12 2013 3:43 PM

  this is a very interesting thread ! ...i have been thinking about what to do in order to have all level players play in a major CC tournament and have a chance to win ...not an easy thing to do ! ...lol

  you all have to understand why the WGT system is as it is ---> by taking only the best last 10 or 20 games to calculate the avg , they are making sure that players tier up and by doing so , players will end up having to buy better clubs to keep playing well ...all about WGT selling equipments ---> more MONEY in the bank !

  right now , i'm thinking about something easy but don't know if it will work. Exemple : to become master , one needs the 67 avg so what if i use that raw number and add or substract to it ? ---> a master shooting 68 would have a net score of +1 to the actual course score so if it is par 70 , that player's score would be 71

  same for a tour-pro ---> 72 is the raw number so if one shoots 68 and the course is par 71 , his actual score would be -4 so 67 is the final score

  would that system work ? ...has anyone tried that ?

• PUHOLINO 1,189 Posts

  Tue, Feb 12 2013 4:40 PM

  We're doing a monthly handicap tourney with 3 qualifiers and the final round. All are on the same course, but with different conditions. The 3 qualifiers are unlimited play and the average scores represent one's handicap. The final round is single play.

  Scoring works like this. The average for your 3 qualifiers represents a par for you. The winner in the end is the person, who gets the closest to his qualifying average (or better, of course) in final single play. For example, if my Q avg is 60 and I score 61 in the final, I'm +1. If a hack averages 82 in qualifiers and scores 81 in the final, he's -1 and he beat me by 2 strokes, etc.

  This system has been working great for us for the last 6 months, but you can only do it in a CC, where you actually know just about everyone and you trust them completely to actually do their best in qualifiers.

  P.S.: Another way to go (but it requires more effort) is to create attractive enough tourneys for most to enter (4 or 5 should be enough) don't tell anyone they're for handicapping purposes and calculate handicaps from those scores.