The WHS - World Handicap System will be introduced at the end of November 2020!

If you have any questions about individual results of the converted handicaps regarding your members in an HCP index, please contact the DGV at the e-mail address handicap@dgv.golf.de

Continue reading: ⇒HCP list before and after conversion

1. Second members no longer get a „Z“ on their membership card, but NOTHING in this place!
2. PR for Platzreife is no longer on the card, but NOTHING.
3. Pro no longer appears on the card for HCP, but NOTHING. If you want this data to appear on the card, you can enter it BEFORE ordering under „Function in the club“!
4. The HCPI values are added to the order data by the intranet check of the members on the DGV server, i.e. PC CADDIE automatically performs the HCPI check directly when the card order is issued. If members cannot be checked, you will receive a message at the end of the issue. You can then check these members and repeat the issue!

Read further documentation on ⇒ID card order

With the introduction of the WHS (World Handicap System) in Germany, a change in loading course data from the intranet will also become active from 2021.
The course data will then have a validity date. Competitions are only possible with course data records that have a validity date!
Please also have a look =>here

There is also a video in our media centre: World Handicap System Part 2

Read more details and information at ⇒Load course data

Your course will not be re-rated, the CR values will remain the same, but there may be a small difference in the CR value for 18-hole courses compared to before, as the DGV now rounds the CR values for 9 holes and then adds them to 18-hole ratings. (Previously, the CR value for 18 holes was only rounded at the end).

When loading the course data, please be sure to reprint the rating tables (available in the DGV portal).
With the introduction of the WHS, PC CADDIE is no longer permitted to print these in installations for German golf clubs, so you will no longer find this item in the menu.
If you have any questions, please contact the DGV.

With the WHS (World Handicap System) there are HCPI values (Handicap Index) from -10.0 to 54.0!
Plus-handicappers have negative signs, even if the term „plus-handicapper“ is still used!

PROs can now create an HCPI handicap index but there are still PROs without HCPI (choice of PROs).
Read more details under Data maintenance for pros.

This can be set in PC CADDIE directly in the person:
The default setting for all persons is „Amateur“, a Pro can then be changed to Pro!

If you change a Pro with HCPI guidance, you will see a P for Pro in addition to the HCPI (handicap index).
This means you still know that the player is a pro. A pro receives an HCP index by submitting a private round.

The home club remains important:
A golfer can only have one handicap guide with the DGV in connection with a home club.
As before, the golfer must have a home club on 1 January of the year in order to be able to play in a LIGA team.

Secondary memberships will be managed as before, except that the HCP of a secondary member will no longer show anything, not even a „Z“!
See also ⇒ID card order

For guests, the HCP index is retrieved from the association using the guest player enquiry.
For a result to be found on the intranet, the home club must be entered correctlyotherwise there will be no result for the guest player query, i.e. even entering the possibly correct second club will not return a result for the guest player query (error ASP8 means: player not found)!

This is carried out exclusively by the DGV (German Golf Association). This function therefore no longer exists in PC CADDIE.
The DGV manages the handicaps of all golfers with a German home club centrally.

In this context, an „active season“ from May to September, in which all singles competitions are rated handicap-relevant. Exceptions will be clarified by the club with the DGV. See the „Handicap rules, valid in Germany from 2021“, licensed version of the DGV!

There is NO possibility (no permission) to score only the rabbits handicap-relevant at a „Tiger & Rabbit“ tournament!

When you create a competition, set the HCPI relevance.
When the competition is transferred to INTRANET, the system checks whether the HCPI relevance is OK. You will receive a message with the next intranet synchronisation.

DGV tournament ID, round 1, ok with 1

The tournament finalisation will continue to be carried out in PC CADDIE and the results will be transferred to the DGV intranet.

With the World Handicap System, the DGV takes over the management of handicaps. There are no more „master sheets“ in PC CADDIE!

The handicap classes are completely cancelled!

Competitions:
The DGV uses the World Handicap System to calculate a course rating correction, which can range from -1 to +3, to determine the score differential.
The CR correction determines whether the playing conditions on the match day deviate from the usual conditions (Rule 5.6. Handicap Rules, valid in Germany from 2021, licensed by the DGV)

For the 2nd 9 holes not played 17 net tableford points are added (instead of 18).

At the end of the tournament, you will now receive a message indicating for which players the HCPI could not be queried on the intranet, or whether you did not enter a result.

The cancellation of matches will be handled by the secretariat as before.
All existing results are entered, the remaining holes remain empty.
Read about processing =>here
See also rule 3.2: Handicap rules, valid from 2021, licensed for the DGV

The changes for 18 holes Wettspiele:

If results are available for less than 10 holes, no handicap-relevant result will be counted.
Results for 10 or more holes played are counted as handicap-relevant.

If results are available for 10 to 13 holes, results for the missing holes are automatically added and sent to the intranet.
The unplayed holes are supplemented with a result nettopar plus 1 stroke on the 1st unplayed hole
If at least 14 holes have been played, all unplayed holes are supplemented with a result nettopar will be added.

Example of a result entry, holes 15-18 have no result:

The changes for 9 holes Wettspiele:

If a competition is cancelled, only results that are complete will be counted.
Less than 9 holes played will not be counted for handicap purposes.

See rule 3.2: Handicap rules, valid from 2021, licensed for the DGV

18 holes round

9-hole round

Penalty score: fictitious result, is entered for the player who has not submitted an HCPI-relevant result (see rule 7.1b of the handicap rules, valid from 2021, licensed for the DGV).

A penalty score is added by the DGV to the respective player's master sheet. A short email to handicap@dgv.golf.de to be contacted by the club (captain) is sufficient for the application to be filed by the DGV.

The WHS will result in changes to the following formulas:

For the Chapman foursome the playing handicap is also determined as follows in Germany with the WHS:
Addition of 60% of the lower and 40% of the higher handicap of the partners.

For the 2-way scramble is the formula with the WHS (and therefore programmed into PC CADDIE):
35% of the low course handicap plus 15% of the higher course handicap

For the scramble e.g. in the 4-man game, the recommended formula is
25% / 20% / 15% / 10% (from low to high course handicap)
This formula is new in the selection of formulas in PC CADDIE:

Formulas and HCP factors work now also with % values.

Par/Bogey a single or foursome form of play with counting method Par/Bogey.
Previously this style of play was called „Against Par“

The registered private rounds (RPR) replace the EDS (Extra Day Score in the EGA system): RPR - registered private rounds

The Children's Golf Badge GOLD corresponds to HCPI 54, the round should be sent to the intranet as an RPR (private round). The child must have a home club.
You can still manage the children's golf badges bronze and silver locally, even for beginners for documentation without membership.

The round for a course maturity test is also transmitted to the intranet with an RPR in order to obtain an initial HCP index. All „attempts“ can be transmitted for documentation purposes.

Once you have checked all members with the association and loaded the HCPI, you can also print a list to check for changes.
The new HCPI is only saved in the history if the conversion has led to a change in the HCP.
This is due to the fact that PC CADDIE has not converted, but only saves changed HCPIs, as will also be the case in the future with queries from the competition etc.

Use the printout of the round statistics via Handicap round statistics
Query the data before the conversion on 21.11.20 and compare it with the current day, depending on when you last queried the HCPI.

1. The EGA master data before the conversion - last status before the conversion
2. Current date (if you queried the HCPI the day before yesterday, this will also fit)
3. Pay attention to the difference column so that you can recognise changes more quickly.