Should I count these rounds

Hi all,

So one of my friends is just getting into golf so has asked me to start taking him out when I can. We have agreed to start playing a local course (Barnehurst for those who are interested) as it is both cheap and fairl easy. Perfect for him to learn on. We played our first round there yesterday and I scored 42 points.... I don't even think that I played that well! There are at least 4 par 4's that are 240 or less so for me thats 4 iron gentle wedge. There aren't really any tough holes and I just don't see any challenge there. My question is: Should I count these rounds that I play with my friend and track them in my handicap? Or do you think that is just going to artificially reduce it until I start playing off of a number that is probably unachievable for me?

P.S. If you check my most recent round on GS you will see how I did, it doesn't list it as 42 points on there as I actually submitted a score just before that was wrong (I put in my points instead of strokes by mistake), and it had me playing off of 10 when I submitted this round. It's know been adjusted but hasn't altered my points unfortunately. Anyway I was net 14/15 over playing off of 20 (and playing averagely), you get the idea.

Hi Chris it's up to you how you track your scores and handicap. I only handicap track qualifying scores at my club, I don't count social rounds for my handicap.

Looking at Barnehurst GC there are a lot of scorecards listed with the SSS being between 0 and 7 shots lower than PAR, so shooting 42 points could mean you shot 1 over handicap or 6 under depending on the correct PAR/SSS.

What was the PAR/SSS on the card you used?

Hi Adrian. The course was par 68 SSS 64. Excuse my ignorance but is that taken into account during handicap calculations?

It is Chris. So 40 points would be to handicap on that course.

The SSS is always taken into account if a CSS is not available.

The formula to get your nett differential for your round is;

36 points(playing to handicap) - 42 points(your score) + 68(par of course) - 64(SSS/CSS) = -2

You played 2 under handicap

Thanks Adrian! Always good to know.

I put every round of golf I play on here.

Even if I'm out on my own (like I was today).

The only problem with this is it leads to you having two handicaps, the golfshake one and my official club handicap.

Russ