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Golf Club of New
Jersey
Handicaps
thru The Great Day
New 2020 GHIN/GCNJ Handicap Info Below
If you want your score history you
can email Stu at stuindayton@yahoo.com
GCNJ indexes will be used
for all GCNJ events
(including winter events and
Florida) and all scores shot
in these events will be used
to adjust your GCNJ index.
Scores from these rounds
will also be posted by the
club to GHIN if played
inside of the USGA season.
USGA indexes (or as revised
by the World Am committee)
will be used for the World
Am. World Am rounds
are to be posted by each
member individually to GHIN.
World Am scores will not be
used to adjust your GCNJ
index.
GCNJ
Indexes
will
be
calculated
using
the
best
4 of
your
last
10 GCNJ
rounds.
Only
rounds
played
over
the
current
calendar
year
and
the
previous
year
will
count
toward
determining
your
GCNJ
Index.
(For
this
season
we
will
use
the
2019
and
2020
seasons.)
GHIN
index
(if
available)
will
be
used
when
less
than
4
events
are
available
within GCNJ
play.
New
players
with
less
than
four USGA
or
GCNJ
rounds
will
have
their
index
reviewed
and
if
necessary
adjusted
by
the
handicap
committee
weekly
until
they
reach
four
rounds
played.
Players
with
more
than
four GCNJ
rounds
may
request
to
have
their
GCNJ
index
adjusted
by
the
handicap
committee
if
they
feel
it
is
not
a
true
representation
of
their
current
playing
ability.
2020 NEW HANDICAP INFORMATION
Here are a bunch of questions and comments I've heard about the new handicap system. I've done my best to answer everything that is sure to come up, but if you have any other questions, feel free to ask. Keep in mind that as in the past, your GHIN index and your GCNJ index will be calculated separately. Your GHIN index is all rounds played (in season), while your GCNJ index is only the rounds you play within the club.
FAQs:
Q: Why does my handicap index the beginning of this season appear to be lower than the end of last season?
A: The new GHIN index calculation only uses your best 8 of the last 20 rounds played instead of the best 10 of the last 20. The result is that most people have seen their index drop by about 1/2 to 1 full stroke.
Note: Our GCNJ index in the past was calculated using the best 5 of the last 10 rounds played. Now it will be the best 4 of the last 10.
Q: Why does my course handicap look so low, especially if I play forward tees?
A: The old method of calculating the course handicap was giving you the number of strokes necessary to play to the course rating. So if the course rating at a course's white tee is 68.9, the strokes you were given were the number you would need to get to that around that score if you played to your handicap. Now, the strokes being given are the strokes you need to shoot par, not the course rating. So if par is 72 on that same course, you are now going to receive 3 strokes less than in the past. (68.9-72=-3.1). So if you used to get 15 strokes on that white tee in the past, you will now receive 12 strokes.
Course handicaps can be calculated directly on the new GHIN app.
Q. Do we need to do any handicap adjustments between different tees like in the past?
A: In general, the answer is no, but there is an exception to that. In the past you always had to make an adjustment because of differences in course rating between tees. In the GCNJ, we were making those adjustments for each tournament in the spreadsheet. Because course handicaps are now based to par, we now only need to make an adjustment if the par is different at different tees. This is very uncommon between the men's tees, but we do occasionally see the women's tees with a different par than the men's. On those occasions, the women will see an adjustment to their course handicap to have them play at the same par as the men. If the par for all courses is the same, your course handicap will not see any further adjustment.
Q. How will this effect GCNJ tournaments being played from different tees?
A. There will be no change, other than net scores looking a bit higher than in years past. The differences between players will not be any different however. So if we had a tournament last year where a man from the white tee got 18 strokes, a senior from the green tee got 16 strokes and a lady from the red tee got 12 strokes, this year it might be 15, 13 and 9 strokes respectively. The handicaps will feel too low, but we will all be getting less together. Results for a tournament will be exactly the same as they would have been last year (with all net scores being higher by the same amount) and net score averages in the GCNJ will appear to be 2-3 strokes higher than we've seen in previous years.
Q. How do I calculate my post score now?
A. For rounds within the GCNJ, we will continue to calculate your post score and report it. You may opt out of GCNJ posting your score if you prefer to do it yourself immediately after the round (please let Dave know if you wish to post your own score). If you are posting any scores yourself, the new GHIN app will let you post scores hole by hole if the course handicap information has been put into their database. While in Florida we saw that most courses had this capability, but not all. When you input a hole's gross score, it will automatically calculate the post score for that hole.
If the app does not allow you to post hole by hole, then you need to figure out your post score on your own. The maximum you can post on a hole is a net double bogey. So if you're on a par 5 hole and receiving a stroke on that hole, the most you can post is an 8 - (a double-bogey 7 plus the 1 handicap stroke).
Q. How does this new "bad weather" adjustment work?
A. If you play on a very bad (or great) weather day and scores that day are unusually high (or low), they may adjust all differentials on the course that day between +1 to -3 strokes. This is called a "Playing Course Correction" or PCC. I can tell you that I played a pretty cool and windy day in Florida last month and I thought I might see an adjustment for that day, but none was given. So I believe these adjustments will be relatively uncommon. On the GHIN app you can see if there was a PCC applied right next to the score you posted. Basically it's nothing you need to worry about. Just play the game, post the score and they will adjust if it's needed.
SENIOR TEE ELIGIBILITY = AGE +
INDEX MUST TOTAL 80 OR MORE
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Name |
CURRENT INDEX |
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Annis, Barry |
12.7 |
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Arnotte, Pat |
6.5 |
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Austin, Andrew |
1.7 |
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Bilyk, Chris |
16.0 |
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Bonello, Pete |
13.9 |
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Brown, Alan |
7.3 |
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Burgess, Paul |
21.9 |
|
Cangelosi, Joe |
14.5 |
|
Clayton, Larry |
16.5 |
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Cohen, Mitch |
12.2 |
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Cortese, Adam |
4.3 |
|
Costanzo, Barry |
23.4 |
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Costanzo, Jaime |
14.4 |
|
Costello, Pete |
12.5 |
|
Daly, John |
15.1 |
|
DiDonato, Barry |
21.5 |
|
DiSimone, Carl |
19.7 |
|
Ennis, Frank |
13.3 |
|
Fanucci, Bob |
14.9 |
|
Foley, John |
25.7 |
|
Formichella, Dave |
12.3 |
|
Frank, Bill |
21.5 |
|
Frederick, Gordon |
11.6 |
|
Furey, John |
18.2 |
|
Godwin, Don |
8.4 |
|
Goss, Norm |
23.5 |
|
Grebel, Alex |
4.6 |
|
Guerriero, Jim |
26.3 |
|
Haupt, Dan |
15.9 |
|
Hicks, Chuck |
5.5 |
|
Hooyman, Rich |
12.2 |
|
Jacobson, Greg |
13.3 |
|
Kannheiser, Barbara |
40.8 |
|
Keesling, Jim |
22.4 |
|
Kelley, Jessica |
11.1 |
|
Kislowski, Wally |
4.1 |
|
Lauten, Craig |
19.5 |
|
Lawroski, Mike |
11.3 |
|
MacLeod, Bob |
12.3 |
|
McCarthy, Glenn |
24.8 |
|
McGovern, Patrick |
17.1 |
|
Mejia, Steve |
11.6 |
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Mieczkowski, Rob |
10.1 |
|
Murphy, Drew |
9.5 |
|
Nutt, Mike |
17.0 |
|
O'Brien, Jack |
11.3 |
|
Pahlow, Joe |
15.5 |
|
Parham, Tom |
6.4 |
|
Placenti, Rudy |
18.3 |
|
Primak, Mike |
18.5 |
|
Richter, Mike |
19.5 |
|
Rittinger, Dave |
12.5 |
|
Rocha, Tony |
16.8 |
|
Romano, Bob |
20.6 |
|
Rozelle, Jeff |
13.4 |
|
Sodano, Joe |
35.6 |
|
Sorrentino, Matt |
19.3 |
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Spellman, Tom |
34.3 |
|
Stringari, Brian |
9.6 |
|
Sturm, Roger |
17.8 |
|
Tormondson, Alan |
18.3 |
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Townsend, Ed |
22.3 |
|
Tricker, John |
5.8 |
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Tullio, Tim |
8.5 |
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Tushingham, Dick |
19.6 |
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VanderVoort, Bruce |
27.4 |
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VanDezilver, Harry |
7.6 |
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Vitriol, Jon |
16.7 |
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Warren, Ron |
16.2 |
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White, Doug |
17.5 |
|
Wolf, Keenan |
5.7 |
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