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I wonder if the ISVs could be more helpful.

You are absolutely right, that if the handicap committee were on the ball, as you'd like to think they should be, then they'd apply Penalty Scores using the guidance from the rules of handicapping. However, I suspect many Committees out there just don't even see this as an issue, yet. Perhaps they think the technology will just get things right. Or that they think they can just did what they did before, and somehow everything will be fine.

If a player has signed in to a comp, then I presume if no score is entered afterwards, there will be a warning to the person running the comp? Could there no be a series of messages, such as:

• Player A Score not submitted, enter score now: Yes / No
• If No, Do you wish to enter a Penalty Score or Remove Player:
• If Penalty Score: Penalty Score = CR+CH (if reason for NR is not known), Penalty Score = CR+Worst Score in Last 20 (if purpose of NR was avoid handicap increase), Penalty Score = CR+Best Score in Last 20 (if purpose of NR was avoid handicap decrease)

Not saying all Committees would still get it right, but the options are sort of flashing right in front of their eyes, so it is brought to their attention. The automatic penalty score could simply be CR+CH, with the other 2 options having to go through an extra step to select. Just to stop the odd handicap sec from religiously picking one of the other options, because of personal preference.

P.S. I'm not sure how Club V1 and the other ISVs currently do this, so making the assumption the way they do it is probably less than perfect at the moment.