How often do you start over your handicap in golf?

Question

How often do you start over your handicap in golf?

Answer 1

The official golf handicaps generated in the GHIN system are based on the best 10 of the last 20 scores. Most handicap tournaments will not accept  a player who does not meet this qualification at the time his entry is received. In effect it is a running handicap adjusted as new rounds are recorded and the  handicap is recalculated every two weeks during the season. So the handicap never starts over, It is a continuing process.

Answer 2

You never 'start over' your handicap index.  The handicap index is an average of your scores up to the last 20 scores you post and is rolling forward from there.  The USGA has a formula to calculate your handicap.  Depending on the number of scores you post, it will take a percentage of those scores as basis to calculate your index, this process is repeated every month rolling in the new scores posted for that past month.

Click the link below to see how handicap index is calculated...

Answer 3

Well you don't "start over", it is based on the lowest 10 scores out of your last 20 rounds.  But all services require a fee, so I suppose if at the end of the year (or whenever it was time to renew for the next year) you didn't pay your renewal, you would be dropped, your record wiped out, and then you might start over with a new handicap service.  Handicaps are usually updated every two weeks during the summer season, but the sequence of lowest 10 out of last 20 still keeps going.

I live near Chicago so our season runs from about late March to mid November.  When we start up again in the spring and post our first score it just knocks out the 20th score from the previous fall and we keep going from there.

Answer 4

Its pretty hard to understand what you actually mean...

but I have read it my way so here is my answer.

You don't start over your handicap unless you have not completed enough scorecards in competitions at your club. In my club I must play at least 3 comps to keep my handicap otherwise I have to submit 3general play cards to get my handicap back.

At the end of the year, the club will have a review of everybodies scores over the last year and can adjust your handicap one shot either way. (this is what happens at my club)

Answer 5

I presume by start over you mean to not have a handicap and have to restart it?

You can start over your handicap if you have submitted less than 3 complete score cards in the past 12 months.

At my club anyone who has not completed 3 scorecards in the previous 12 months loses their handicap and then must submit three more to re-gain it. You must then always submit a minimum of 3 cards (Maximum of 12) and your handicap is adjusted accordingly.