Interesting side note here. I just had to check my current index for a tournament signup, to see if April was on there yet (it's not), and I noticed something I hadn't before in the GHIN system: they indeed do list your "eligible tournament scores" - ie "T" scores - in an easy to find, separate table! Seems to me it would be VERY easy for tournaments to require that players use the index computed from these scores ONLY, and thus in effect adopt the UK system for competition purposes. This would seem to solve both issues here: those who want handicaps for everyday use can use whichever they want, and it's up to their competitors to "check" this... in tournament play, the "T" based index could be made mandatory, thus solving the sandbagging issue to a HUGE extent.
VERY interesting. Maybe we're farther along than I thought. Yes, hole-by-hole posting is the best answer, but until that is mandated, it would indeed be damn easy to use a T-based index.
John V - I know, you were getting at this about 20 posts ago. I just had to see it for myself!
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