England Golf News - CONGU Changes

The latest England Golf News has just been published and contains a variety of interest.

Primarily Clubs and Golfers need to be aware of some of the recently agreed changes made by CONGU (The Council of National Golf Unions) and links exist to provide further information on these changes which will take effect from 1st January 2016.

Probably the one change to raise most eyebrows is the 4BBB Handicap allowance is to be increased from ¾ to 90%.

Other changes in short are;

• the handicap calendar year becomes 1st January through to 31st December.
• a new Club Handicap` will be introduced for clubs who wish to allocate a handicap higher than 28/36 for use in club run events. This handicap will only be valid at the player’s home club and cannot be used in opens etc.
• Each National Union to have discretion to adopt a preferred lie period within their jurisdiction. England Golf will remain as 1st October to 31st May, preferred lies outside this period must be authorised by the County Union/Association.
• the CSS Calculation for men will now include Cat. 4 players in the same manner as Ladies CSS calculation.
• Detail regarding processing of 9 hole scores
• Introduction of a process to flag players with 7 consecutive 0.1 handicap increases so that Handicap Committees can review and apply an immediate handicap increase if required
• Competition status
• Supplementary scores can now be returned at all clubs of which a player is a member
• Exceptional Score reductions

The latest bulletin also includes information relating to staging Family Golf Days and also relating to scheduled regional workshops on the CASC process.

The England Golf News can be viewed here

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