These are the basic philosophies of the El Dorado Park Men’s Golf Club’s Handicap Committee and will guide its actions and decisions:

1)  The primary goal of the Committee is to make sure that the members of the Club play to handicaps that accurately reflect their ability, as that should result in a fair playing field for the entire membership.

2)  The Committee is a varied, but not complete cross-section of the membership of the Club.  Therefore, the Committee will actively seek and encourage input from the Board members who work at the scoring table each month, as well as any member who feels a handicap may not accurately reflect a member’s ability.  The Committee will also accept input about groups that seem to perform better than their collective handicaps would indicate.

3)  The Committee feels that “double pops” can randomly--and in some cases unfairly--help a teams’ scores in a multi-ball event (i.e. is it fair to the entire field if one member’s par or bogey on #6, #8, #10 or #13 dramatically helps his team more than it would on another hole?).

4)  The Committee believes that if a handicap is reduced – even if just because of the philosophy of avoiding “double pops” – that the reduced handicap should be used for all Club events or activities (in particular for side pots and flight breakdowns).

5)  The Committee accepts the statistical abnormality of exceptional rounds---66 and below---and will act as necessary to adjust a member’s handicap to that member’s obvious ability.

6)  The Committee strongly believes that it is doing what is fair for the overwhelming majority of the Club.  The Committee will hear and act on all appeals of its decisions. 

7)   The members of the Committee are prepared to take the criticisms it or they may receive.

Tom Retterath
Handicap Chairman

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