2025 - Update

 Welcome to the Liberty Lake/Meadow Wood Golf Club,
 

The courses will open Friday March 7, 2025.  Posting scores in the Northwest began on March 1.  You can post 9 hole scores if you play a full 9 holes that are rated.
 

Go to WAGOLF website to Renew your membership.  If you tare interested you can sign up for auto renewal.
 

Visit our web site   llmwmc.club   to get more information on our club.  This includes the club news, a list of Board of Directors, tournament schedule and local rules for 2025.  
There is information on handicaps,  a section on the mobile GHIN app and on posting hole by hole.  
 

There are new rules of golf starting this year.  Go to the USGA website for more information. You can also download the new rule book.
 

Since WHS has gone to daily handicaps, it is important that you post by midnight the day you play.  When posting, post hole by hole at the end of your round.  This will give you your gross and net score.This can be done on your phone. Use the free mobile GHIN app'   If you are establishing your handicap for the first time, you will need to post 54 holes to get  a handicap index.
 

As always, play each hole to the best of your ability, post your scores, and keep up with the group in front of you.  One additional thing you can do is make sure your playing partners are posting.  This is called “peer review” and can easily be done using your mobile app.  We used to have peer review when handicaps were posted every two weeks.  Now they are posted every day in the GHIN mobile app.  Please let me know if there is an issue, and I will follow up if needed.
 

Have a great Season and enter a few of our tournaments.  Tim Nersinger does a fantastic job as tournament director.  The payouts are great,
 

If you have any questions or handicap issues, feel free to call me.
 

Sincerely,
 

Verner O”Quin
Handicap Chairman  
 

206-437-2897  

Active season for posting in our region is 3/1/23 to 11/14/23.

All unpaid members have been inactivated until dues are paid.

The updated Ghin system does not recognize Ghin #’ beginning with zero, or one that is hyphenated (e.g., 00123456, 123-456). Your Ghin # is 123456. If you are a paid member and having trouble getting into any Ghin product, this may be why.

When you sign up this year you will need to furnish a current email address, and no two members can have the same email address. Without it, the new system will not allow posting access to Ghin products (ghin.com and phone app). Because handicaps are computed daily, posting by midnight of the day you play to avoid penalty scores, is the norm under the WHS (World Handicap System). 

With the change to WHS it is recommended to post scores hole by hole after your round on the Mobile Ghin app, or ghin.com.  Your score will automatically be corrected showing your max score per hole of Net Double Bogey… (par + 2 stokes + any handicap stokes received).  In most cases this will be no more than 8 or 9 strokes on a par 5 for example, and in casual play you should pick up at this point and move on for pace of play purposes. This limit is in place, so a player’s handicap is not overly influenced by 1 or 2 bad hole scores that are not reflective of a player’s ability. This procedure must be used for all rounds posted for handicap purposes.

Your Handicap Index (HI) calculation is based on the lowest 8 of the last 20 differentials in your scoring record. Your phone app will have your updated HI each day.

Your Course Handicap (CH) will vary depending on which set of tees you are playing. Again, the Mobile Ghin app figures this automatically for you.

Look for more additions to the Mobile Ghin app in the near future. 

WHS rule 1.3(i) responsibilities of Player

1. Act with integrity by following the Rules of Handicapping and to refrain from using, or circumventing, the Rules of Handicapping for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage

2. Attempt to make the best score possible at each hole

3. Submit acceptable scores (WHS rule 2.1) for handicap purposes as soon as possible after the round is completed and before midnight local time

4. Submit acceptable scores to provide reasonable evidence of their demonstrated ability

5. Play by the Rules of Golf

6. Certify the scores of fellow players

WHS rule 2.1 Acceptability of Scores

A score is acceptable for handicap purposes if the round has been played:

1. In an authorized format of play (Rule 2.1a) over at least the minimum number of holes required for either a 9-hole or an 18-hole score to be acceptable (Rule 2.2)

2. In the company of at least one other person, who may also act as a marker (subject to satisfying any other requirements of the Rules of Golf)

3. By the Rules of Golf (Rule 2.1b)

4. On a golf course with a current Course Rating and Slope Rating, where length and normal playing difficulty is maintained at a consistent level 

5. On a golf course during its active season

6. The player’s score must always be certified in accordance with the Rules of Handicaping (Rule 4.4 peer review)

If one or more of the requirements set out above is not met, the score is not acceptable for handicap purposes

Mike Steffy

Handicap Chairman

509-981-6688