Handicaps

Dear Ladies Section

As of the 13th May all Ladies Handicaps are now held by the club instead of the Ladies Section.

This decision has been made for two reasons:

a) All Ladies will now been allocated a CDH (Central Database for Handicaps) number and will therefore be able to access information on their handicaps wherever you play. This is extremely helpful when playing Open competitons as you may not need to provide a handicap certificate!

b) Each year the handicap system has to be updated. This came at a cost of around £800.00 to the Club this year and as part of that; the club would usually receive a disc so that the Ladies Section computer could be updated too. However, this year there was no disc provided, therefore we were unable to update our information and came to 'deadlock' as we could not update our records!

I understand that this is a major change to our normal handicap system but I am sure you will agree that these changes need to take place to ensure we keep up to date with the new systems.

As far as the section is concerned, we will run our usual Medal & Stableford competitions as normal and the cards will continue to be placed in the box upstairs, and monies will continue to be taken in the pro-shop. As handicap secretary, Carol Martin and Lisa Kiddie will collect the cards and hand them to the office for input onto the system.
Please remember that your handicap is your responsibility, therefore if you have a good round and are aware that you may have reduced your handicap, then you should contact Carol Martin or Lisa Kiddie for confirmation and to ensure that you are playing off the correct handicap for your next round!
Likewise, if you feel that you may have increased your handicap then again the above applies.

Our competitions will be run as usual and results and prizes will continue to be presented on the day, however, the cards will need to be input by the club so we will have to wait for any handicap increases and decreases information to follow.

All handicap certificate requests will now need to be made to the club.

I hope this clarifies the situation at the present time, although there are bound to be a few teething problems, but the committee will deal with these as they arise!

Should you have any concerns or issues regarding your handicap then please contact any of the following:

Carol Martin - 07930 422872
Lisa Kiddie - 07525 935640
Debbie Conder - 07784 723753

Or any other person on the committee.

Thank you

Debbie
Lady Captain