Should shots be extended to extra holes?

[Sean_A]

I have always advocated that the number of shots determined for a match is final.  If a bloke gets ten 10 shots, that is ten and only ten no matter how many holes the match goes.  Often, extended matches go only a few extra holes, yet guys are given shots based on a 18 hole match.  I do not understand how this can be seen as reasonable.  

How does handicaps and extra holes work in the States?

Ciao

Sean

[TEPaul]

In the US shots are allocated exactly the same way and in the same order as the first time around.

[Darren_Kilfara]

Sean, are you suggesting that it's reasonable for a 10 hcp to get no strokes in extra time at all against a scratch player? That seems rather worse than the alternative...of course, at my club (Machrihanish) players who are tied after 18 holes in a club matchplay competition are encouraged to replay the entire tie, time permitting, rather than go onto sudden death.

Cheers,
Darren

[Craig Sweet]

At my course a new policy was recently approved by the Mens Golf Association...when a match ends in a tie, the participants immediately proceed to the 1st tee where they commence to leg wrestle for the title.

[A.G._Crockett]

I had this conversation with the pro at my club during a match play tournament last year.  Our course has three of the lowest handicap holes very early, and I was giving strokes on #2, #3, and #5.  

What this means mathematically is that if we go to extra holes and halve #1, my opponent gets a stroke on #2.  If he wins there, effectively he is getting 9 shots, or a stroke every other hole, instead of the 6 shots that I was giving in the original match.  Of course, if I can survive #2, he strokes again on #2, and now he's effectively getting 12 shots because he's gotten 2 strokes in three holes.  I thought this was a bit steep.

My pro's answer was, "Well, you better close him out in regulation, then, hadn't you?"  I did not appreciate that.