Club-Wide Dynamic Handicapping

We are about to embark on a brand new across-the-board handicapping system. Up until now our scoring system has looked back at everyone's history of results to calculate a sort of average when asked to update the handicaps for a particular day. No more! We are moving to a dynamic handicapping system that can be applied to anyone in any session. It is based on your XG rating ... which gets updated every week.

XG ratings are produced from scores recorded when you play X-Clubs boards (as we do). Revised XG ratings are produced weekly by taking into consideration your XG, your partner's XG, and the XG's of your opponents.

This effectively sets an Expected Score for you and your partner in whatever strength of field you play. If you exceed expectations then your XG should increase next week. And vice versa should you fall short.

When you play an X-Clubs session our Compass scoring package can now apply the above methodology to your raw score to get your handicapped result for the session. This is not the same as averaging of you and your partner's combined XG's as it allows for the strength of your opposition. We are confident that this new system will finally overcome the biases of the previous one which, at times, seemed a mere reflection of peoples' choice of partners.