Handicap

Special Events Handicaps Explained

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Special Events handicaps are “challenging”.

Fair handicaps that allow enough separation to rank finished scores over a wide range of formats, team sizes, and player skills are the goal.

The Special Events Committee has settled on some methods that should be as fair and accurate as possible.  These follow recommendations from USGA.  Plus we use your most recent handicaps from our regular weekly tournaments,

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This is now a page on our menu for Special Events.

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Close to Pin Selections for Special Events

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Here are the selected CTP holes for Special Events and the Association Championships.  These are chosen to match our target distances / difficulty for both the forward and back tee locations for each course.  These have been reviewed by the Special Events and Tournament Committees with cooperation from the Handicap Committee.

The Event Leaders and Special Events Chair have the final authority for selection of tees at the Event to adjust for course or event conditions.

Special Events and Championship CTP Holes 

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2018 Championship Tournament Brackets

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The Championship Tournament for Metro Seniors is split into 4 “Brackets”, each one representing 25% of the total membership in Divisions 1 through 5 as of January 31.  All Metro Seniors members are required to renew their membership for the next year by December 31.  Then, each year on January 31, after all the renewals have been processed, the handicap index (or handicap guide as it is called in OurGolfStats.com) for all members are reviewed, and the lowest 25% determine the range for Bracket 1, the next lower 25% determine Bracket 2 range, etc.

These Brackets, unlike the Flights in each Division, do not change each week.  They are set for the year.  Golfers handicap guides may change after each time that they play, but these ranges for identifying the Brackets for qualifying for the Championship Tournament, do not change during the year.

Where one stands in qualifying for the Championship Tournament can be found by accessing the Weekly Results Directory for 2018 and clicking on the Championship Qualification link.  The top 75 qualifiers in each Bracket are listed on that report.  The report is updated weekly after the results of the Division tournaments are posted.  One must play at least 10 times in the first 18 weeks of the season in order to actually qualify.

For 2018, the handicap guide ranges for the 4 Brackets are as follows:  

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2018 Schedule now on OurGolfStats.com

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The 2018 schedule for each of the 5 Metro Seniors 18 hole Divisions has now been entered into the OurGolfStats database. You can review (and print, if you wish) your Division’s schedule after you sign in to your Division and select menu option #5 (Schedule) on your Division specific page.

Until January 1, the Schedule will contain dates for both 2017 and 2018. The Schedule on OurGolfstats documents:

  1. which golf course you play on what date
  1. the time the tournament starts
  1. whether that tournament is a “shotgun” start – or not. For the shotgun tournaments, all golfers start at this time (but, be at the course no later than 45 minutes before the time as all golfers are checking in with the Starters at the same time). Also, for non-shotgun tournaments, checking in with the Starters ends 1 HOUR after this posted time. This 1 hour window is new this year so remember this change.
  1. which tees are the “regular”, “forward” and “ladies” tees for the day
  1. what the yardage, tee rating and slope are for each of the tees being played. All tee ratings and slopes are reviewed before the season starts by the Metro Seniors Handicap Committee. Changes will be made at that time as the Committee determines.

If you are interested in how many strokes are subtracted from your score to calculate your “Net Score”, you can find that information from menu option #2 (Course Handicap) on your Division specific page. This number may change every week since the tee rating and slope changes each week and each golfer’s handicap is updated after every round.