Re: The WCF Golf Croquet Rules - 2013 Edition - DRAFT
Margaret Sawers
I Agree with Alan, How can a player on a handicap of 4 possibly give 8 extra turns to a player on 12 in a best of 13 point game let alone a player on a handicap of 14 or 15. Or worse stil a player on a handicap of 2 playing a player on 14. it would ruin the game To: cnswplayers@... From: atasteofhoney@... Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:56:37 +1100 Subject: RE: [cnswplayers] Re: The WCF Golf Croquet Rules - 2013 Edition - DRAFT
Hi Wal I have no idea as to the real reason but one rather simple reason could be is that AC has a final possible score of 26 hoops whereas GC is 7 hoops. If you wanted to play off higher handicaps I'd suggest increasing GC to first to 13 hoops game rather than first to 7 hoops. Cheers Alan Honey
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From: cnswplayers@... [mailto:cnswplayers@...] On Behalf Of Wal Mills Sent: Tuesday, 22 October 2013 11:53 PM To: cnswplayers@... Subject: [cnswplayers] Re: The WCF Golf Croquet Rules - 2013 Edition - DRAFT Hello Group, I'm having a great deal of difficulty understanding the opposition to increasing the Golf Croquet handicap range and reviewing the indexes. I would now also add where it should placed and under whose responsibility. Quite clearly the handicap range IS defined in the RULES set by the WCF Cl 16 (a) "Each player is allotted a handicap according to ability, ranging from zero for the strongest players up to 12 for the weakest players." and while the WCF don't set rules for Indexes or trigger points they do provide an Appendix to the rules covering these including that "Each national croquet association is encouraged to use this system". On the other hand however the WCF does not prepare its own Association Croquet Rules but has as it says "Responsibility for the keeping and scrutiny of the laws, rules, interpetations and rulings of these versions, lies with individual law-making bodies officially recognised by the WCF" and indeed it recognises that England, Australia, New Zealand and the USA follow "The Croquet Association" Rules. In addition those rules do not include handicap ranges nor indexes. Indeed Australia appears to have it's own Handicapping Regulations. The Australian Handicapping Regulations (Association Croquet) (March 2010) include at regulation 2.2 "National handicaps for players shall be on a scale with a range from -3 to 20 with steps as set out on the AHS Card. Handicaps higher than 20 may be used internally within clubs. The highest handicap a player can use in an event for national handicapping purposes is 20." So it refers to another system "the AHS Card". "The AHS Card" indicates 28 levels of handicap compared to GC's 13. Again "The AHS Card" defines both the index and trigger points with an index range from 950 to 3050. Again AC social players can go above a h/c of 20 for use in clubs (although I notice several Tournaments in NSW that include a range to 24?) but GC social players cannot go above 12. Although I don't play AC myself, I am having difficulty understanding why there are two sets of Principles for handicap setting between GC and AC that are completely different. Anyone else out there have an opinion or what am I missing here?? Wal "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) ------------------------------------ Yahoo!7 Groups Links
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