MEMBERS 2009

Members shown with ® signifies that they are fully registered to participate on the tour.

All members on the Handicap Offline Tour will be classed as active and have a green status indicator once the required number of events have been played and only at this time will they become eligible to win a Handicap Tour event. Status levels are only applied to the Handicap Tour as the additional tours for Pro and Champ/Elite are both played off scratch.

New members playing in their debut event or any members making a return to the tour after a long term absence/lay-off are given a red status indicator and any earnings or sub-event points are limited to 50% of their full value and players are not eligible to win the handicap event. Any new/returning members participating in their second event or any players currently with inactive status, indicated by the orange status indicator, and any earnings or sub-event points are limited to 75% of their full value and players are not eligible to win the handicap event.

 Any players missing/failing to complete 3 consecutive events become in-active and receive an orange status indicator.
Any players missing/failing to complete 10 consecutive events will be moved to the returning members list and given a red status indicator.
At the end of the season, any players with a red status indicator due to non-participation on tour will be removed from the list and have their current registration to the tour withdrawn.

Any player winning a regular Handicap or Scratch Tour event will be shown with © (on the relevant Money List) which also grants them an invite to the Champion of Champions event at the end of the year. Any non-event winning players after the conclusion of the Tour Championship will be able to participate in the Challenge Trophy, but only those with fully active tour status will be eligible to win the respective Handicap Tour events.

Players returning to a previously used swing/skill will return with their previous playing handicap and receive an INACTIVE status. Players returning and changing to a new swing/skill will receive the appropriate handicap ruling.

HANDICAPS 2009

All new Offline Tour members or members changing to a new skill level will receive a starting handicap of 3.00, which is then adjusted based upon scores submitted. All handicaps are rounded up/down as required, with any player on a handicap of ?.60 being rounded up eg. 2.600 plays off 3. Any player reverting back to a previously used skill level, will resume at the handicap as it was at the time of the prior change.

Instead of a player having his handicap adjusted based upon the difference of his net total against the event par, the adjustment will now be taken from the difference of the players net total against the tournament average score or TAS. Only players who complete all 4 rounds of an event will contribute scores towards the calculation of the TAS (and whose scores are not in excess of 20 over par). Adjustments for increases and decreases will remain as they are now with the net total below the TAS multiplied by 0.125 and the net total above the TAS multiplied by 0.04 to a maximum reduction of 1.00 shot per event.

The handicapping increases and reductions are applied in this way to mirror real life where handicaps never reduce for bad scores at the same rate they increase for good scores. A further reduction may be applied for new members/skill changes only based upon observation of their scores, but this ruling will only be applied in exceptional circumstances.

Any player who plays in a tournament but doesn't complete all 4 rounds, for whatever reason, will not receive a handicap adjustment.

No handicap adjustments are applied to scores submitted in the season ending WLS Grand Slam of Golf as only played over 36 holes.