MEMBERS 2011

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 current members changing to a previously unused skill are given a purple status indicator and any earnings or sub-event points are limited to 25% of their full value and are not eligible to win the handicap event. New members playing in their second 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 members playing in their third event, any returning members participating in their second event or any players currently with inactive status, are 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 purple or red status indicators due to lack of participation on tour will be removed from the list and have their current registration to the tour withdrawn.
Players will also be removed from the tour forum but can easily re-register should they wish to return to the tour. Anyone doing so will also retain their handicap as it was at the end of the previous season.
Any players registering for the tour within the last month of the year (December) will retain their registration until the end of the following year at which time relevant members rules will apply.
If a player returns to the tour to play with a previously unused swing/skill combination, usual tour rules will apply.

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 as applied to new members.
Players changing swing but retaining the same skill level will receive the appropriate handicap ruling as applied to new members.

HANDICAPS 2011

All new Offline Tour members or members changing to a new swing/skill (whether the skill level has changed or not, from their current setting) will receive a starting handicap of 3.00 and the appropriate tour status applied, 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.

Players play all 4 tournament rounds off the same handicap, with adjustments applied upon the conclusion of each event.

Each round is adjusted based upon net score submitted compared against the TRAS (Tournament Round Average Score) where the net scores of any players shooting +5 or better in a round are used to calculate the adjusted par for that round. The adjusted par can never be in excess of 2 shots more or 4 shots less than actual par. Adjustments for handicap increases and decreases will see the number of shots below the TRAS multiplied by 0.11 and the number of shots above the TRAS multiplied by 0.04 to a maximum reduction of 0.25 per round and a maximum 1.00 per event.

With this revised system any players not completing all 4 rounds will still receive handicap adjustments based upon the scores submitted.

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.

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