In terms of stroke allocation, we along with the rest of the world follow Appendix E in the Rules of Handicapping under the World Handicap System®. It uses course rating data to provide recommended stroke allocation for men and women. It is recommended that one set for men and one for women is used.
- Please provide me with the most commonly played tee for men and women.
- Once you provide me this information, I will provide you a report which will outline column to column how the recommended stroke allocation came up.
- The USGA recommends that each course have one allocation for men and one for women, based on the most commonly played set of tees for each gender.
To provide you a short summary:
- The recommended stroke allocation used course rating data from rating scratch and bogey golfers for the specific set of tee
- It is then organized from 1-18 ranking of the difficulty of the holes
- It it is then organized into odds on the front and even on the back
- This is followed by a Triad method to balance out the most difficult holes in the middle triad.
- This method does not use any hole by hole posting from GHIN or Golf Genius.
- The report will look something like the one below.
- You read the report left to right
- Difficulty value: This is the difficulty of stroke holes based on data from course rating
- Ranking: Ranking the holes 1-18 based on difficulty value
- Odds/Even Distribution: Odds on the front, evens on the back
- Stroke index: Incoperates the triad method and Appendix E of the rules of handicapping to organize the stroke allocation
- Stroke Index (Override): This is what the club is currently using for stroke holes.
- Tee Rating (Override) : This tee uses specfic handicap stroke holes different that all the other tees
- To learn more about the Appendix E, please review the Rules of Handicapping which can be found in the following link.
https://www.usga.org/handicapping/roh/2020-rules-of-handicapping.html
If you have any further questions, please contact our Director of Course Rating, Duncan Chau, at dchau@fsga.org
