Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
It seems that the Scottish Golf Union have made the handicap system too complicated.
I also do not agree with the rule that a player can now ‘accidentally’ ground their club in a bunker with no penalty as it is wide open to abuse. I also think that it is wrong to be able to putt on the green with the pin in. Even the professional golfer are allowed to do this.
Thank goodness I chucked the golf in February 2011 as it is now too complicated.
Here is another daft rule. About three years ago I contacted the match secretary of Islay Golf Club to obtain a handicap certificate for my last playing handicap which was from memory 10.6 which I would hand over to Downfield Golf Club should I wish to rejoin when we eventually move back to live permanently in Dundee.
The match secretary told me that the rules had changed and I would now have to submit three cards playing on Downfield Golf Course along with a discussion with the Downfield Golf Club match secretary to get my new handicap.
In my opinion this new system is wide open to abuse. There is nothing to prevent me putting in three cards which would give me a 28 handicap and then ‘clean up’ in the club and open competitions until eventually my handicap would get down to a true level of about 12.
It's a world handicap system.

I doubt Scottish golf had a lot of input.

Basically yanks system.