All handicapping is done on line. Members can now enter scores using the GolfCanada app, from the pro shop kiosk, or from their home computer. If you wish to enter scores from home, please follow these instructions.
The First Time You Log In
- Obtain your temporary log in credentials (username and password) from the pro shop.
- Navigate to golfcanada.ca and log in (Log in link is at upper right of page).
- Follow the instructions for submitting your profile.
- Click each tab and complete the form under each tab. Remember to click the Save button after completing each form.
- Please alter your username and password to values only you could know.
- Before logging out, select "At a Glance" from the menu and set your home course and favourite tees as the default.
- After completing your tasks, click Log Out near the top of your page.
Logging In to Enter Scores
Once your account is properly set up, I highly recommend downloading the GolfCanada app onto your favourite device and using it to enter scores. Simply launch the app, push the red button and then post a score.
Below are instructions for posting scores using the golfcanada.ca web site:
- Navigate to golfcanada.ca.
- If your name and id does not appear in the black banner near the top, you must log in using the link at upper right of page.
- Click the large red Post a Score button near the top.
- If you wish to track your performance or if you are unsure of how to determine your ESC adjusted score, we recommend clicking the Hole by Hole tab near the top left.
- For quicker data entries you can click Total tab and submit an ESC adjusted score. Starting in 2020, the maximum score allowed on any hole amounts to Net Double Bogey (Read the World Handicap System section below for further clarification) .
- Make sure the the correct value is selected for each parameter (tees, holes, tournament score, played alone).
- If you are entering hole by hole scores, complete the scorecard underneath.
- When data entry is completed click the Post Score button at the bottom.
- After posting a score you must confirm your score by clicking the Confirm button or it will not be recorded or used in your handicap calculation.
- After completing your tasks, click Log Out near the top right of your page.
Multiple-Club Members
If you are a member at two or more clubs, please let us know. The RCGA will set up a special account so that you can make single score entries but appear on more than one roster.
World Handicap System
World Handicap System aims to bring the game of golf under a single set of handicapping rules that gives golfers an increased opportunity to have fun and compete equitably across all skill levels and ages on courses all around the globe. Handicaps will establish more quickly so new players can enjoy competing equitably with others starting right away and continuing all season long. The Technology behind the new system lets golfers simply play and enjoy their round the same as always and effortlessly submit scores immediately after their rounds to obtain real-time updates.
The handicapping system continues to utilize course ratings and slope ratings but incorporates these changes.
- Course handicap is now designed to provide you with the number of strokes required to play to par (rather than rating) regardless which tees you play from.
- Only three 18-hole scores are needed to establish a Handicap Index.
- Only your eight best rounds of your last 20 determine your Handicap Index. (No more .96 fudge factor either)
- Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) has been made more equitable from hole to hole and player to player. The maximum hole score is now limited to a Net Double Bogey. To clarify: Max Score = par + 2 + allowed handicap strokes.
- The new Playing Condition Calculation (PCC) will analyze scores to adjust score differentials accordingly to reflect when a course plays significantly harder or easier than its established slope or rating implies.
- The maximum handicap index has been raised to 54 for both men and women.
- Handicap Reduction is triggered if a score seven strokes better than normal is posted.
Established golfers will find their handicap is lower since the strokes are meant to only bring your score down close to par (72 on our course) rather than all the way down to a course rating of 68 or 66. The great news is this will eliminate many of the complications that arise in competitions involving men and women playing off various tees. Better still, the system looks after most of these new changes. The new ESC may take some getting used to (Use hole by hole entry if you had a blow up hole and are unsure.) but as long as you play steady golf - just continue to enter your scores immediately or shortly after each round.