Why Post Scores?

To assure fair competition for all, scores should be posted to GHIN for all rounds you play by the rules of golf and in the company of other golfers. Golfers who skip posting may either have too low a handicap or too high a handicap. GHIN relies on complete reporting, and "peer review."  Use the "Golfer Lookup"  in your GHIN app to check if your buddies have posted their scores, and let them know when you notice they haven't. 

 

If a golfer doesn't post high scores, he or she may have a "vanity" handicap that it is very difficult to play to. If a golfer doesn't post low scores, that golfer may get more strokes than is fair to competitors. 

 

Posting Scores for Our Events

Players should not post NH Seniors' event scores to GHIN themselves. NHSGA posts all eligible scores to GHIN, usually in the evening after the day's competition, so that they will be included in the golfers' index calculation by the next morning, and also so that any appropriate "Playing Conditions Correction" will be applied to everyone for scores posted at that course that day.

 

After consultation with the New Hampshire Golf Association, we decided to post scores as C (competition). This is not the same as the T (tournament) scores category that existed before the World Handicap System. There is no difference in calculation of your handicap index between a C score, an H (home) score, and an A (away) score. 

 

Scores are often posted to GHIN even if a player did not finish, "no carded", was disqualified, or withdrew mid round. If 9 or more holes were completed, incomplete holes are estimated by GHIN based on expected performance computed from all golfers with the same handicap. NHSGA complied with USGA and World Handicap System standards in this regard.

 

Posting Scores for Other Rounds

For all other rounds -- not NHSGA events -- played by our members, players are expected to post their own scores to GHIN, through the phone app, GHIN web page, or GHIN computer posting station at their own golf club. It's important to post your score the same day you play. GHIN compares all the scores at that course that day to expected results, and if the course is playing considerably easier or harder than normal, handicap differentials will be adjusted for everyone with a Playing Conditions Calculation (PCC). If you forget, and post later, your score will not be used to determine a PCC, but if there was one for the course and day you played, you will still receive the PCC adjustment.

 

Posting your Score when you "Pick Up" 

In formats like Better Ball, Best Two of Four, Stableford, Quota, or match play it is permissible (and encouraged, for pace of play) to pick up your ball. It is the responsibility of the player to report his own score fairly, without understating or overstating his likely score.

 

If your partner is in with a 4 and you are putting for 4, you don't need to putt. But you don't have to record a 4 for your score. Your own judgement of your "likely score" is what you should report to the scorekeeper. And if you are the scorekeeper, ask the person who picked up what score should be recorded, don't assume a score for him.

 

If 50% of the time or more you believe you would make that putt, count it. Or add one if a miss is more likely. Or add 3 if you are not even at the green yet. Use your judgement, and record your likely score.

 

Read more at this link about how to report your scores when you don't hole out.

Rules of Handicapping 3.3: When a Hole is Started but the Player does not Hole Out.