Sunday Eclectic Challenge 2008
A new competition for 2008 will be an Eclectic Challenge based on the
results of 10 Sunday competitions.
The competition will be Free Entry and will include all
competitors Men, Ladies & Juniors.
A players eclectic score will be their best gross score on each hole which produces a best possible gross round score minus 2/3rds of their current handicap on the date of report, which produces a best net eclectic score.
The eclectic leader board will be updated after each round of the competition and prizes will be
agreed & funded by the Committee from club funds for the final results.
Winner £25.00, Runner Up £15.00, 3rd Place £10.00
Obviously the more competitions you play in the better your chances of improving your score as the best score for each hole is taken, however your handicap may change if your normal handicap reduces or increases and this may also change your eclectic score.
Any cards/scores from individual competitions which have been disqualified may not be put towards your eclectic score as the software in some cases has to ignore them so please remember to return and sign your scorecards even if you have had a bad round as an individual score for a hole may improve your eclectic score.
The following competitions will be used to produce the results:
Medal 6th April cancelled
Stableford 20th April
Stableford 4th May
Committee Cup 18th May
Stableford 1st June
Directors Cup 6th July
Captains Day 20th July
Medal 3rd August
Stableford 17th August
Captain's Challenge 7th September
Note: Captains Challenge swapped with Medal on 7th so the competition on the 7th will still count as the last qualifier.
Why 2/3rds of your handicap?
Simply if we use full handicap it heavily favours the high handicap players & if we use no handicap it heavily favours the low handicap players. After running sample reports from last years data using many different allowances
the use of 2/3rds produces the fairest results allowing
low, medium & high handicap players to feature at the top of the leader board.
The Committee agreed that 2/3rds be used.
For the record last years data featured our Captain Tony "Rocket" Golding in first or second place on almost every
report I produced confirming BANDIT status once and for all !!!!!!
Trevor Francis.