Does Golfshake auto adjust handicap for par 3 courses?

As per title.

My local course has a proper 18 hole par 70/71 course and a very good 18 hole par 3 course, par 54.

Golfshake lists the par 3 course but I wanted to know does it adjust your handicap automatically when you add the scores for a par 3 course as I dont want my handicap being inaccurately skewed!

Golfshake has my handicap at 18 at the moment and correctly or not I put myself down as a 14 handicap for the par 3 course (on the gorunds that 54 is rought 3/4 of 71 and with my scratchy maths 14 is roughly 3/4's of 18. Is this the correct way to calculate it?

If so I scored 42 points playing the course to +10 but if golfshake calculates this off my full handicap of 18 I will have 46 points and my handicap will come down loads!!

• Does golfshake auto adjust handicap for shorter courses?
• For future was I correct in assuming a 3/4 handicap?

All help much appreciated

Yes it does. So the best bet is to untick the 'track handicap' box for that par 3 course so it's ignored for handicap tracking.

I dont mind if it adjusts my handicap. I just wanted to make sure that it doesnt adjust it inaccurately but very useful to know that you can log a score but also have it ignored for calculating a handicap

Seeing as my short games not the best playing the par 3 course might be a good option for me moving forward and therefore may play more often

Hi Dave, it's also worth noting that if you change the handicap in the strokes box this is used only for stableford point calculations and not the handicap.

I dont mind if it adjusts my handicap. I just wanted to make sure that it doesnt adjust it inaccurately but very useful to know that you can log a score but also have it ignored for calculating a handicap

Seeing as my short games not the best playing the par 3 course might be a good option for me moving forward and therefore may play more often

I would be very surprised if a par 3 course had a Standard Scratch Score - I assume you would need one to enter scores.

If, as I think, it is the Lee course at Ramsdale, it is less than 3,000 yards and therefore cannot have a Standard Scratch Score.