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Last Saturday April 17th the 2nd round of the Dunhill Cup has been played in excellent weather conditions.

France was sitting that round out, so we had Netherlands vs Commonwealth, and Italy vs Germania. It was the first game for Italy and they are off a good start beating Germania 3-0. Commonwealth get their first win.

Netherlands vs Commonwealth (1-2):
– Brian Taylor 63 – 63 Henk Wapstra (Henk wins on first playoff hole)
– Garry Gould 59 – 69 Nely Borst
– Stephen Durrant 67 – 75 Willem Borst

Italy vs Germania (3-0):
– Raffaele Tosellini 66 – 66 Nicolas Walser (Raffaele wins on first playoff hole)
– Giuseppe Racca 68 – 68 Klaus Ludwig (Giuseppe wins on first playoff hole)
– Luigi Fanchi 61 – 75 Andreas Obst

Current standings:

Rank	Team	Played	Remaining	Match W-L	Game Wins	Shot diff
1	Italy	1	3	1 – 0	3	16
2	France	1	3	1 – 0	2	14
3	Commonwealth	2	2	1 – 1	3	27
4	Netherlands	2	2	1 – 1	3	4
5	Germania	2	2	0 – 2	1	3

All results can be seen here: https://challonge.com/egc_dunhill_2021

Next round will be on May 8th, with Commonwealth vs Italy and France vs Netherlands

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