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

Bunken
over 4 years ago

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

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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.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Still doesn't work. I have only played on a 9 hole course 10 times since I got the watch (no 18's). Par is 33, I have averaged 43 so 10 over. I expect it work out a circa 20 handicap from that and it has figured out I should be 31.2 ???

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Same issue with my S62 - Stableford on 9hole course is adding way too many extra shots. If this isn't fixed (for two years ?!?) is there any known workaround?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 3649088

    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 correctly update after changing the hcp there. (That's why I thought putting half your hcp didn't work). But after exiting and reentering the scorecard, it shows the correct score. Happy days!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I am using an s70 in Europe, set scoring method to stableford and handicap scoring to index/slope.

    The calculated points make no sense at all, for example:

    - played the same 9 holes 2 different days, one day I got 25 points the other 21 points, funny thing is I made 2 shots less when I scored 21 points.

    - I make boggie in two consecutive holes, I get 5 points on the first hole, 0 points on the second one.

    Before getting the Garmin I was using free apps on my phone and the worked as expected, why is a 750€ Garmin doing random stuff? How can this not be fixed in 3 years? I need a solution to make this watch worth it.