Member Handicaps

A golf handicap index measures an amateur player’s ability to play golf. In short, a handicap is calculated as the average number of strokes above par a player is likely to score for any given round.

In our Society, we have the following rules which we’ve found over the years to be fair and facilitate a good spread of winners throughout each season’s fixtures.

• The winner of each competition is cut by 1 shot (regardless of total pts scored)
• Players scoring more than 36 pts are cut according to the table below
• Players scoring 30 – 36pts will maintain their current handicap
• Players scoring less than 30 pts will have their handicaps increased according to the table below
• For calculations, all non-scoring holes (blobs), count as 1 Stableford point each

Last updated by committee: 15th May 2026.