The handicap for money games

Walt says he’s an 18.
The Group Handicap says 11.2.

The Group Handicap is built only from rounds your group witnessed. Walt can claim whatever he likes. His handicap comes from the people he bets against, not from him.

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The group sheet · every handicap shows how many witnessed rounds back it up

Why sandbagging dies here

The Group Handicap gives it nowhere to hide.
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No typed handicap nobody checks

Your handicap is computed from your rounds, never typed in. There is no field where Walt writes 18.

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No imported scores nobody saw

Outside rounds don’t exist here. If it wasn’t posted in front of the people you bet against, it isn’t in the handicap.

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No quiet solo rounds

A padded handicap needs padding rounds. Only rounds this group plays together count, so there’s no way to fatten your handicap on a Tuesday alone.

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No cherry-picking

Every finished group round counts, in order, no exceptions. Nobody chooses which scores make the cut.

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No score you can’t check

Every score in the handicap shows where it came from, and the scanned ones show the handwriting on the card. Tap the score, see the evidence behind the number. Settled by evidence, not memory.

How the Group Handicap builds

Your best golf, witnessed

Each finished round in a group outing becomes a score for that day, adjusted for how hard the course played. Your Group Handicap is built from your best 4 of your last 8 group rounds, then trimmed 10%.

That reflects your good golf, not your average day, which is how real handicaps have always worked. Blow-up holes are capped before they count: one 11 on a par 4 stays a bad memory, not a fatter handicap.

Three rounds earns a handicap. Five makes it established. It updates after every outing, on its own.

Scope

The Group Handicap stays inside the group

Play with two different crews and you carry two handicaps, one per group, each backed only by what that crew saw with its own eyes.

A handicap that could follow you in from somewhere else is exactly the honor system this replaces. Here, nobody arrives with a reputation. Everybody arrives with a scorecard.

The new guy

Claims are optimistic. The math knows.

New to the group? The captain sets a starting number: you claim your usual handicap and the app trims 20% off it until real group rounds take over. Claim 20, play to 16.

Beat your claimed handicap by a mile on day one? The app quietly claws half the gap back before anyone pays. Win honestly on day one; earn the full handicap by playing.

Three Saturdays later the claim doesn’t matter at all. The Group Handicap is the number now.

Before the handicap exists

First time out, nobody has a Group Handicap. Play anyway.

The company scramble, the bachelor party, the first Saturday. Pick day-of strokes and today’s round sets everyone’s handicap. Peoria picks six holes in secret before the round and reveals them at settle, so nobody can play to them. System 36 earns points hole by hole, live on the leaderboard. Either way, nobody plays unhandicapped and nobody types a handicap on the honor system.

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The honest part

Not an official handicap. On purpose.

An official handicap means joining a club and paying yearly dues, and most weekend golfers never will. The Group Handicap doesn’t pretend to be one. It’s the handicap for your group’s money games: computed, witnessed, and worth exactly what your crew saw. If you carry an official handicap, it keeps its job. This one has a different one: keeping Saturday fair.

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The personal number

Your handicap. Just yours.

The AS IT LIES Handicap is one number built from every round you play, wherever you play it. Post the scorecard and it updates on its own. Free forever.

Different job than the Group Handicap: that one keeps the group honest. This one is you.

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How you get one

Type your email. That’s the whole account.

No passwords, no profile to fill in. The app emails you a code; the code claims your name. Every seat you’ve claimed starts counting toward your number, including rounds you played before you signed in.

Nothing about the round ever needs an account: join, scan, and settle stay open to everyone. Signing in adds exactly one thing: a number that follows you.

How it builds

Best 8 of your last 20, against the tees you actually played

Every 18-hole round becomes one score for the day, measured against the rating and slope of the tees you played, so an 89 at a brutal course can beat an 86 at an easy one. Your handicap is your best 8 of your last 20.

Blow-up holes are capped before they count, and the number can’t climb more than 5 above your best of the last year, so one rough month never buys a fat handicap. Three rounds starts it; eight make it established.

The receipts

A number that shows its work

Tap the number and see the ledger: every round, its differential, and whether it made your best 8. Behind the scores sit the photographed scorecards they came from.

The number even tells you what it’s made of: scanned, witnessed by your crews, or typed in by hand. You can see exactly how much of any handicap is evidence.

Still honest

Still not an official handicap. Still on purpose.

If you carry an official handicap, keep it; this one has a different job. It’s free, explained on one screen, and backed by photographs: the number for the golf you actually play. The Group Handicap keeps the group honest. This one is who you are everywhere else.

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Included in every tier, not an add-on

The Group Handicap

Freeto start
  • In every tier, from the free Foursome up
  • Builds itself from the outings you already play
  • Day-of strokes included: Peoria and System 36
  • Every scanned score backed by the card photo
  • Handicaps stay inside the group, always
  • The AS IT LIES Handicap: your personal number, free forever
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No accounts for players, nothing to maintain. Name the group when you create an outing and the Group Handicap takes care of itself.