Short answer. Current Form is Ringer's own read of how you have been playing, built from your last ten eligible 18-hole rounds with the newest weighted most. It lives on Improve and on Improve → Handicap Intelligence. It is not an official Handicap Index, it does not replace yours, and it never decides your strokes in a game.
Which rounds are eligible
A round has to pass all four checks. If it fails one, it is listed under Excluded rounds with the reason.
| Check | Reason shown when it fails |
|---|---|
| Declared 18 holes, all 18 scored | "The scorecard did not contain all 18 holes." |
| The course has pars for all 18 holes | "Canonical hole pars were unavailable." |
| The round kept its hole-by-hole handicap allocation | "The round did not preserve its handicap allocation." |
| The tee has a valid rating and slope | "The tee rating or slope was missing or invalid." |
Nine-hole rounds are never included. A match that ended after 12 holes is excluded too; finish all 18 and it counts.
How it's calculated
- Adjusted gross. Each hole is capped at net double bogey:
min(strokes, par + 2 + handicap strokes on that hole). The 18 capped holes are summed. - Performance for the round.
(113 / slope) × (adjusted gross − course rating), rounded to one decimal. Lower is better. - Current Form. A weighted mean of your latest ten performances, newest first, using these weights:
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | 1 | 0.92 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 0.72 | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.56 | 0.52 | 0.48 |
You need 3 eligible rounds before Current Form appears. Confidence is "Low" with 3 or 4 rounds, "Medium" with 5 to 7, and "High" with 8 or more.
Worked example
You play a tee rated 71.2 with a slope of 130 and post an adjusted gross of 89.
(113 / 130) × (89 − 71.2) = 0.869 × 17.8 = 15.5
Suppose that is your newest round and your two before it scored 17.2 and 13.9.
(15.5 × 1 + 17.2 × 0.92 + 13.9 × 0.85) / (1 + 0.92 + 0.85) = 43.139 / 2.77 = 15.6
Current Form reads 15.6, Low confidence.
Form Trend and Recent Ceiling
- Form Trend needs exactly your latest 8 eligible rounds. It is the weighted mean of the latest four minus the weighted mean of the four before, using the same weights. Below -0.5 reads "improving", above 0.5 reads "cooling", anything between is "stable". Until then: "Form Trend appears after 8 eligible 18-hole rounds."
- Recent Ceiling needs 6 eligible rounds among your latest twelve. It is the average of your best four performances in those twelve. Until then: "Recent Ceiling appears after 6 eligible 18-hole rounds."
Good to know
- With fewer than three eligible rounds the tile reads "Add 3 fully specified 18-hole rounds to build Current Form." With none at all: "Current Form needs complete 18-hole scores, canonical hole pars, a handicap snapshot, and a valid tee rating/slope."
- Nine-hole rounds get their own Nine-Hole Form, measured against par. As the app puts it, "Nine-hole actuals are never doubled into pretend 18-hole scores."
- The page states the promise directly: "Current Form explains recent performance. It does not replace your official Handicap Index, determine official strokes, or silently admit an underspecified round."