Peoria System

When the hpGA conducts a tournament, there are usually a number of participants that do not have an established handicap.  To allow those players to compete among themselves we use the Peoria one-day handicapping system.  The steps taken are as follows:

1. After the competition is concluded, select a par-3, par-4 and par-5 on both the front and back nines.
2. Add up the competitor's scores on these six holes.  Do not allow more than double-par on any hole.
3. Multiply this result by three.
4. Subtract par (usually 72) from this number.
5. Multiply this result by 80% and round.  This is the Peoria handicap allowance to be used.  It cannot be more than the maximum course handicap allowed for that gender of player.
6. Subtract this allowance from the competitor's gross score.   This is the competitor's Peoria net score.

Example

Ingrid has scores of 4, 11, 7, 6, 8, 4 on the six holes selected by the tournament scoring committee.  Only the eleven scored on a par-5 was more than double-par so it will be counted as a ten.

The sum of the six holes is then 39.  Three times that is 117.  Par for the course played is 72 and subtracting this from 117 results in 45.   80% of that is 36, so that is Ingrid's allowance for the day.

Her gross score was 109 so her Peoria net was 73.

A Peoria net score has no relationship to a net score returned by a player with a real golf handicap, and they should not be compared.

As one might expect, how well you do in a Peoria competition is a matter of luck; specifically you have to do poorly only on those holes that will be selected as Peoria holes.

We always recommend that golfers obtain a real golf handicap.   It takes only five 18-hole rounds to establish one that can be used in any tournament that you enter.

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