Handicaps
Your index, the Course and Playing Handicap chain, stroke dots, and the freeze at start.
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Ringer uses World Handicap System math to turn a Handicap Index into strokes on the card, then freezes every player's number the moment the round starts. Ringer handicaps are for your games; they are not an official handicap.
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- Enter or change your Handicap IndexType your index on your Profile settings, tap + for a plus handicap, and save; it applies to every future outingPlayer
- Handicap error messages, explainedEvery handicap-related message Ringer can show, what it means and what to do next
- Handicap terms Ringer usesHandicap Index, Course Handicap, Playing Handicap, allowance, off the low, stroke index and the rest, in one place
- Handicaps are frozen when the round startsWhen a round goes live, every player's handicap is copied and the board, card and money use that copy; later index edits do not move anythingPlayer · Commissioner
- How Ringer calculates your Course and Playing HandicapIndex × Slope ÷ 113 + (Rating − Par), carried unrounded through the game's allowance and off-the-low, then rounded once
- Import your index from a GHIN card screenshotScreenshot the GHIN app's My Card screen, tap Import from GHIN on your Profile settings, check the numbers and tap Looks rightPlayer
- Where a player's handicap comes from, and who can change itA round uses the Commissioner's outing override if there is one, else the player's own index, else nothing; never scratch by defaultPlayer · Commissioner
- Where your strokes fall: stroke index and the dotsStrokes go to the hardest holes first by stroke index; plus players give strokes back on the easiest holes; dots on the card show each hole