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This Self-Handicapping Chart will help you to equitably handicap yourself.

Find your average scoring round in the "Your Avg Score" column, then declare your starting provisional CTGA handicap from the "Your Provisional HCP" column.

Example: If you determines the average score on the course(s) you plays to be 88, you should identify this ability and self-declare your provisional handicap as a ….. 17 (man) or….. 20 (woman).

Provisional CTGA handicaps are used to set up New Members and CTGA Guests with provisional handicaps for Individual and Team Player Pools, Close-To-Pin and our optional Skins and Deuces competitions.

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All CTGA members should carry a current USGA Rules of Golf booklet.

Learning how to use the USGA Rule Book is not a difficult task. Learning how to interpret what the rules are within the booklet sometimes can be. Our attempt here is to introduce each of us to the booklet and try to help us better understand how to extract what we need from it to make the game of golf more interesting and fair for all CTGA members.

Watching professional golf on TV helps us, to some degree, see how some of the rules are applied. Unfortunately, those players don't seem to get into the same predicaments that we so often do….. And they have Rules specialists on hand to help them apply the rules correctly.Read more