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The teams this year are the following:

France (Still recruiting): Vincent Regis (c), Tony Rosmalen, Georges Gourmelon, Sylvain Prezelus, Anna Carmio.

Commonwealth: Brian Taylor (c), Clare Bingham (c), Joe Pereira, Stephen Durrant, Garry Gould, Salim Ansari, Reno Harboe Sorense.

Germania (Germany/Austria): Klaus Ludwig (c), Nico Dettmann, Nicolas Walser, Helmut Frueholz, Peter Behrmann, Andreas Obst, Hanna Jones.

Netherlands: Henk Wapstra (c), Nely borst, Willem Borst, Carel Haakman, Rob Jansen.

Italy – Luna Rossa: Giuseppe Racca (c), Raffaele Tosellini, Filippo Pinna, Stefano Capitanio, Luigi Fanchi, Marco Ermocida, Domenico Mignolo.

Since we have only 5 teams, the competition will be a simple round robin bracket. Result will be updated in Challonge.com: https://challonge.com/egc_dunhill_2021

All teams meet each other once, 2 games per round over 5 rounds, which means one team sits out every round.

So for the first round, Italy is sitting out and the 2 games are:

– France vs Commonwealth

– Germania vs Netherlands

The tee times are the following:

Our EGC handicap secretary Klaus provided the Committee with a 2021 list of our members including Old and New WHS handicaps. On behalf of the Committee I took a closer look at this list in order to analyse the change in handicaps as introduced by NGF per 1 March 2021.

Firstly I think only a 1/3 of the players HCP can be used for any type of meaningful analysis. So I reduced our 2021 membership list of 186 names into 66, all playing Monthlies or other official EGC competitions within the last two years. Additionally I also spotted two Old handicaps to be wrongly listed, thus corrected them. So for 66 active EGC players, their average handicap were changed to:

Average NEW HCP = 25,4

Average OLD HCP = 22,4

Delta +3,0

I then removed the 12 players with external handicap so looked at 54 players with EGC HCP:

Average NEW HCP = 26,8

Average OLD HCP = 23,5

Delta +3,3

Finally the 12 players with external HCP:

Average NEW HCP = 19,2

Average OLD HCP = 17,3

Delta +1,9

Hope this small analyses clarify what happened to EGC handicaps per 1 March 2021. Many of you already know your new WHS and have used it. This analysis was primarily used for justifications for the new Monthly Cat. I/II split of 23,9/24,0 where we earlier used 20,9/21,0.

Your EGC Competition Secretary – Reno

Dear Club members,

It is time to put together the teams for the Dunhill Cup.

The first round is planned for the Saturday 27th of March. So you have until March 24th 17:00 to setup your team and communicate its composition back to the organiser (Vincent Regis). Pools will be drawn on Thursday, and flights for the first round will be announced on Friday 26th.

Team Composition

All members of the team shall have a link to a recognisable ‘geo-political’ entity, either by birth, naturalisation (citizenship), marriage or partnership.

To make team setup easier, minimize walkovers, and broaden a little bit the field of players, one external player will be allowed in each team, that has no link to the aforementioned geo-political entity.

It is the responsibility of the captain in setting up a team to ascertain potential absenteeism among the players to avoid ‘conceding’ walkovers. The team captain shall function as point of contact to the organiser.

A team shall consist of no more than 7 players.

A player can only participate in one team.

Competition is open to all players with Handicap 54 (GVB). For the competition an exact handicap of 36.0 is given to players with handicap >36.0. Team composition may not be changed after the first playing Saturday. Teams that don’t have 7 players on their team at the time of the first match may still add players until they have reached the maximum of 7 players.

We already have some confirm team captains for the following teams:

Schedule

Round 1 – March 27th

Round 2 – April 17th

Round 3 – May 8th

Semi final/round 4 – May 29th

Final – June 19th

Game format and rules:

A match between 2 teams is made up of 3 games/flights, with 3 members from each team playing against each other. Captains shall declare their team’s 3 players to the other on the day of the match just prior to the first tee time. A players handicap is the one current at beginning of match day (Note; full handicap adjustment), Maximum exact handicap is 36, players with a higher handicap are allowed to play but will be given a 36.0 handicap for the match.

The matches are played in handicap order where first, the lowest handicap player of a team plays against the lowest handicap player of the opposing team etc.

This order of play shall be modifiable to accommodate late arrivals (Note the 20 minute tee-off window still applies). The format is medal matchplay, i.e. each player plays 18 holes, holing out on each hole. The lowest net score at the end (after handicap adjustment) wins. Individual game must have a winner, in case of a draw after 18 holes: play on from hole 1 (with handicap difference per hole) to decide winner by sudden death (like match play).

If a team does not manage to field all three players for a match, the game(s) where the missing player(s) would have played is (are) conceded.

If each team fields only 2 players and each wins one game, then the match is decided by stroke difference, else by a sudden death, match play between the 2 lowest handicap players.

Score cards to be put in the scorecard box after competition. These will be forwarded to EGC Handicap Secretary or returned to player with a non-EGC home club.

Teams score:

The team winning a match will get 1 point, loser 0. The games scored, 3-0 or 2-1, will be recorded as will the net stroke difference in the match and games conceded.

The stroke difference in a game is fixed at 1 where there was a play-off to decide a game.

Where a game is ‘conceded’ through a ‘no-show’, the conceding team gets a +5 stroke penalty for that game. (The other team does not benefit any strokes, just the game win.)

Teams in a group are ranked according to, and in order of: 1) points, 2) games won, 3) least net stroke difference over all matches. If still a tie in a group, then the winner of the match, already played, between the two will go through.