Controversial CONGU handicap system set for long discussion at ADM

The controversial handicap system operated by CONGU (Council of National Golf Unions of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) will be discussed at the Annual Delegates Meetings of the Irish provinces.

There has long been a view that those golfers intent on building their handicaps in pursuit of the game’s most desirable prizes are having their aims assisted by a structure that allows for an increase of 0.1 on each occasion that they return a score that exceeds the standard scratch score of the day as well as a club’s buffer zone.

A source of particular aggravation is the fact that once a player has entered a competition and paid the entrance fee, he need not go out at all and still qualify for a handicap increase.