Important New Rules

There are two new scoring rules this year (as voted on at last season’s banquet, right after the burlesque entertainment was finished).

• Golfers who have not yet established a handicap will be given a net score of 33. (This was previously 32.) That means that if your opponent does not have an established handicap, and you score your average (a net 32) you win your match, and a point for your team.

• Golfers who are unopposed win by the higher of (a) 2 strokes or (b) the number of strokes by which they have beaten their handicap. By the previous rule, an unopposed golfer automatically won their match by 2 strokes. This unnecessarily punished a golfer who shot out of his gourd and netted, say, a 26. By the old rule, that unconscious golfer would have won by two strokes. By the new rule, he would have won by six (thereby earning several more post-round cocktails from jubilant teammates).

Stay tuned - later this week I will add a post clarifying some league rules and doing a little myth-busting.