Inactive handicaps

Inactive handicaps and what to do if you get one!

The EGU recently instigated a system whereby club handicaps become inactive if an insufficient number of qualifiers have not been entered in each calendar year.  The purpose of the system is to increase the rigour with which handicaps are managed.  However, it is entirely up to clubs and other competition organisers how they treat players with inactive handicaps.  How this works at Heydon is described below...

In the official club handicap list, any player with the “i” character next to their handicap is deemed to have an inactive handicap.  This does not mean that you do not have a handicap, it just means that there may be competitions you are not allowed to win/enter because you did not submit enough qualifying scores during the previous calendar year.  Please ask the competition secretary (Malcolm Knobel-Forbes) if you wish to enter an official trophy or medal competition if your handicap is inactive.

To get an inactive handicap back to active status, you will need to submit a minimum of three qualifying scores each calendar year.  These may be in club comps (which you may not be allowed to win) or via supplementary scores (cards you submit via the ‘general play’ box where you declare in advance of the round that the card will be submitted as a supplementary).  Note that you cannot submit more than one supplementary round per week.

The active/inactive system works according to the calendar year.  However, we also insist that anyone entered in an official club comp also has 3 qualifying scores submitted in the preceding 12 months.  It is your responsibility to ensure you have done so but we will try to alert any ‘regulars’ if they are likely to fall foul of this rule.