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    Question: Posting Scores Using ESC - am I cheating the system?

    I have a golf handicap index and usually post my scores using my home computer rather than the machine at the clubhouse. At the ghin.com site they ask that I post my score using the ESC (Equitable Stroke Calculation).

    I need to be sure I am doing this right...
    Let's say my handicap is 18 and the course handicap is 11, using the ESC control chart, that actually means that I get 11 strokes at that course.

    If my score after 18 holes is a 90 gross (actual strokes taken) do I enter a score of 79 as my ESC score? (90 strokes minus the 11 strokes) or do I enter a score of 90?

    Or is it more complicated than that?
    Tags: esc scores, ghin
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    Re: Question: Posting Scores Using ESC - am I cheating the system?

    This is my interpretation of ESC.

    Golf Handicap FAQ: What is Equitable Stroke Control?

    However I may be wrong. I am finding that as I get older, the way things once were, are not that way now, based on newer interpretations of such things. Myself, for the most part, I have an ESC of 7, with an occasional double bogey thrown in on some courses.......lol
    GJS
    Last edited by GolfJunkieSr; 05-31-2010, 06:39 PM.

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      Re: Question: Posting Scores Using ESC - am I cheating the system?

      Follow GolfJunkieSr's link.

      ESC is about the maximum allowable score PER HOLE when adjusted for ESC.

      Course HCP : Max hole score

      < 9 : Double Bogey
      10-19 : 7
      19-29 : 8
      30-39 : 9
      > 40 : 10

      So with your 11 course handicap, when submitting your score, any hole score higher than 7 is automatically adjusted to 7. So if you shot 90 with 18 bogies, your score is 90. If you shot 90 with two holes with 8's, you report an 88.

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