TIGS' next competition will be held on Saturday the 11th of February at Pao Shan Country Club. Tee off is at 11AM and the bus will pick us up at 9:00AM. This will be followed by the awards ceremony at La Bodega at 7:30PM.

Our competitions are scored using the stableford system. TIGS's fixed score is one over par golf after 85% of your handicap.  We have made some changes to our competition format for 2010.  We will be splitting up the competition into 2 flights.  Division 1 (0-19 handicappers) will be playing for 1st and 2nd place and Division 2 (20 to 36 handicappers) will also be playing for 1st and 2nd place.  Remember that the cut off between Division 1 and Division 2 may change depending on how many players play in the competition and the difference in the players handicaps that particiapte in the competition.  See the handicaps link for more details.  This levels the playing field and gives all our members an equal opportunity to compete.  If there are any questions please ask one of your committee members.

  • 0 points for double bogey after handicap
  • 1 point for bogey after handicap
  • 2 points for par after handicap
  • 3 points for birdie after handicap
  • 4 points for eagle after handicap

To explain it better we have included the following examples.  Remember that we are using 85% of your given handicap.

Examples

Player with a handicap of 6

 

This player has a handicap of 6, being the stunning player that he is he only needs help on holes stroke index 1 through to 6, ( the 6 hardest holes ) and by help I mean he can knock a shot off the gross score for those holes thus giving a net score.

So......... if he holes out in 4 shots on a par 4 which has a stroke index of 3 he gets 1 shot help which gives him a net score of 3, which is a net birdie, if you refer to the table above that's gives him 3 points.

On holes stroke index 7 to 18 he receives no help (or to put it another way receives no shots to knock off)

So.........if he holes out in 5 shots on a par 4 which has a stroke index of 12 his net score is 5, which is a bogey and from the table above gives him 1 point.

So a player off scratch (0 handicap) gets no help (receives no shots) at all, so effectively his gross scores are his net scores.

This is simple to understand all the way up to an 18 handicapper (an 18 handicapper receives a shot on all holes a 12 handicapper get a shot help on the holes indexed 1 to 12 and so on) the problem comes with players who play with a handicap above 18.

What happens here is that the player receives the shots that an 18 handicapper would get plus another shot on the harder holes again until he's reached his handicap figure.

 

Player with a 20 handicap

 

So a player off 20 would get the help on all holes plus an another shot each on stroke index 1 and 2

18+2=20 (the handicap of the player) so in effect he's get 2 shots help on stroke index 1 and 2 and 1 shot help on the rest.

If he shoots a 6 on a par 4 with stroke index 2 his net score will be 4 (he's getting the 2 shots help) this gives him a net par for 2 points (see table above).

If he shoots a 6 on a par 4 with a stroke index of 10 his net score will be 5 (he's only getting 1 shot help on that hole) that gives him a net boogie for 1 point.

 

In the event of a tie on points the “Last 9, 6, 3, 1” count-back system will be employed. Ties will be broken by examining the accumulated scores over the final 9 holes. If unbroken ties remain, accumulated scores over the final 6 holes, final 3 holes and the final 1 hole will be examined until as many as possible of the ties have been broken. If any ties still exist they will not be broken. This method is recommended by the USGA if a playoff is not possible.