When the Handicap Was Lost On A Round

How far round did each card get before the handicap was used up? Where it is lost, and who keeps it longest

Summer competition cards, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. 18 holes; every card also has Stableford points. Dates link to the published results; names link to player pages. Small grey numbers are CDH numbers. Each round is marked with its format (Net Medal Gross Stableford, with a matching row tint): a Stableford round still has gross scores, and a medal round still has points, but players play to the format.

The rule. On which hole was the handicap used up? Worked out from the cards (like a flag competition):
  1. Only complete cards count: a gross score on every hole. A card with a blob (a hole with no score) is left out.
  2. The allowance is the handicap strokes on the card. That is the playing handicap on the card for that competition (what the Stableford points were worked out with).
  3. Play the holes in order, keeping a running total of strokes over par (a birdie takes one off, an eagle two).
  4. The handicap is lost on the first hole where that running total goes above the allowance. Being exactly on the allowance after a hole does not lose it: you have no strokes left in hand, but a par on the next hole keeps you going. Example: a 10 handicapper who goes 8, 8, 8 on three par 4s is 4, 8 and then 12 over – above 10 on the 3rd, so the handicap was lost on the 3rd.
  5. A player who never goes above the allowance kept their handicap to the end, shown with the strokes still in hand, e.g. Kept (+3).
  6. A plus handicap (an allowance below zero) plays the round on an allowance of 0 and owes its strokes at the end: a plus 2 player keeps it only by finishing 2 or more under par; otherwise it is lost on the last hole.
  7. Order: rounds where it was kept come first, most strokes in hand first; then the latest holes where it was lost. On the same hole, the player who was fewer strokes over the allowance there is ahead. Holes done = holes finished before the handicap was lost.

Summer rounds are 18 holes, played 1 to 18. Just for fun: it works like a flag competition, which nobody played on these days – this is what would have happened if they had. Every format counts (Net Medal, Gross and Stableford): the gross scores and the handicap on the card are the same whatever the format. Click a column heading to sort.

The season switches choose which seasons are counted – any combination; your choice is remembered on this computer. They change everything below. Each player’s own rounds are on their player page.

Seasons:

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