Problem with Handicap Scoring when playing 9 holes, and stableford scoring.

Hi, I'm having some problems with the automatic handicap scoring (stableford). When using Local Handicap the watch calculates the extra shots correctly on the 18 hole course, but when I'm playing the 9 hole course It's totally wrong. It's adding 6 shots too many than what it should be. When I got 19 points the watch calculated it to 25 points (and as you can see below It's not even calculating the score for each hole correctly) and I can see that alot of holes have one extra shot on them compared to what it should be. Any ideas why that happens? Shouldn't the watch automaticly get the correct amount of extra shots aslong as the course is in the watch and you use the correct Local Handicap?

The courses are Pitea Golfklubb and Pitea Golfklubb 9 holes

Also I noticed something else, how is the score even calculated? Like first hole is a par 5 where it says i got 2 extra shots (which should be 1 only if correct I'm pretty sure) and I made a par, yet it only counts it as 3 points, shouldnt it be 4? You should get 2 points for being on your "handicap" but I was two under so should be 4 points and not 3? If you look at hole 7 it is calculated correctly since It gave me 3 points for being 1 over par. While on hole 8 it gave me only 3 for being on par with 2 extra shots, but hole 5 gave me 4 points for being on par with 2 extra shots (which is correctly calculated). So something seems very off, both how it calculates extra shots from Local Handicap and how it calculates score based on extra shots.

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3649088 over 2 years ago in reply to 3649088 +1

I have been a few minutes too impatient... It's possible to set the handicap in the watch settings to half your hcp. That fixes it when playing a 9 hole course. In the iphone app, the scorecard doesn't…

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0 Garmin - Chris over 4 years ago

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0 Bunken over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Is this a S62 problem only or is it the same for all other of your watches that has stableford counting? Also how long has this been known and any estimate when this will be solved?

0 Johnno over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Hi, I am seeing this same problem if you take my score today on S62 says I scored 24 Stablefords points for 9 holes at CAMS Hall Parkland 9 holes, where in fact the stableford should of been 16! Not sure what is going wrong, the score card on the Garmin Golf App doesn't show the stroke index either?

0 MW_Wills over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Chris I am seeing the same issue.

0 CarpeDion over 4 years ago

Same here, doesn't calculate correct with 9 holes.

0 3238502 over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Has this problem been resolved chris ?

played today and I can’t see any stroke index and also my stableford points didn’t add up to the correct amount.

many thanks

Jason

0 Marve over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Could it be possible to show both during play? Stableford and strokes

0 Bunken over 3 years ago

1 year later and nothing has been done. Played it today and still counts the course as 18 hole and giving me 13 extra shots when it should be 6 or 7 since its a 9 hole. Also the watch asks me if i wanna play 9 or 18 holes when i select the course yet it doesen't let me continue to keep score after first 9, it just asks if i wanna save it or quit it.

Hopefully in a couple of years this has been fixed.

0 9585984 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

Hi,

I am also having this issue and for the past 4 rounds my stableford score has been incorrect.

aftet spending a lot of money on the watch I would hope that the scoring would be correct.

I have checked the SI on both the physical scorecard and the website and they match. Do you know when there will be a fix for this?

0 mnrussell over 3 years ago in reply to 9585984

I am also having the same issue. The watch is giving me two less points (in Garmin Golf) for the correct Course handicap (29 for a full round) on a 9 hole course than an official app is giving. However, the additional strokes (dots) for the handicap are shown correctly in the scorecard.
For example: A par 3 where I have 2 shots + 3 putts (5), and where I get 1 stroke (4 strokes), should give me 1 point, but I'm getting 0.
Another separate (but maybe related) issue, is that Penalties are not visible on the scorecard. I'm tracking shots and adding penalties, but the total strokes don't seem to add up.

I've only just bought the S62 and in general like it - but as stableford is so fundamental in golf scoring I was hoping it would work properly.