Alloting an Initial Handicap | Golf Monthly

1 - Hopefully, although at the meeting England golf were suggesting that they would encourage golfers to submit every round (not matchplay), much more than the odd member now who submits a supplementary because they can't get their 3 comps in a year.
2 - There are a lot of golfers at my club who can't even use the internet to book into comps via howdidido, so I'd imagine there will be many computer illiterate golfers who have never even hear of an app
3 - I'm more worried about players entering scores completely wrong. We've had members enter their comp scores in, and noticed they've won with about 80 points because they entered their stableford scores, not hole scores. I'd wonder how this would impact the daily adjustment if a handful of members did this.
4 - Each time I post a bad score, it technically wipes out the round I had 21 rounds ago. As I keep doing this, it will start wiping out better rounds, thus leaving fewer good rounds in your last 20 to work out the average. I'm aware that there will probably be some sort of memory system that it will not necessarily wipe out a round from 21 rounds ago if it was a great score, but not sure on mechanics of this. However, it still seems that a player could have a huge increase to their handicap in the space of 1-3 months if they play really badly. And, if I went from 7.7 in May to even something like 14 in August, I know my fellow competitiors would be pretty annoyed, especially if I go out and shoot 45+ points
5 - But what does it do to them after they are more than 20 rounds ago? A score I posted 50 rounds ago would be irrelevant? Whereas, at least with the current system those very old scores contributed to your handicap, and each round thereafter your handicap is adjusted accordingly. 5-6 years ago I shot a couple of great rounds, and with the associated adjustments and ESR I went from about 12 to 8, and I've been around 6-8 ever since. So, at least I feel that those ancient rounds still contributed to where I am now, whereas in the new system they'd seem a bit irrelevant after time passes
6 - What if the player hasn't returned his score? What if the computer was unavailable or down, he couldn't use it or couldn't enter scores online? He / she would return their scorecard and await the handicap secretary to sort it for them. If they are playing a comp the next day, they must still make their own adjustment until we sort it out for them

As you can see, I do have my concerns so playing devil's advocate in a way. I still hope that a lot of these concerns will never come to pass. However, I personally feel like the current system is pretty solid, been used successfully for years and has been refined over time to improve it (e.g. ESRs). My worry is, for the simple outcome of allowing players to use their handicap anywhere globally (how many people does that effect?) we could start using a system that essentially brings many more problems to the everyday golfers / committees that we do not currently face. I appreciate that many golfers do not understand the SSS/CSS set-up and so incorrectly think if they play at an easy course, they are of less ability to a similar handicap player at a harder course, and so the new system will deal with that. Although, if that is truly a concern for them, their handicap secretary could explain to them why courses have an SSS, and therefore they can compete against players from harder courses.