When you are a member of a club or LGS and you play at society golf days you will be given a handicap. This is not a number that is plucked from the air, but carefully calculated on your performance over a number of games (typically 3). These calculations are laid down by the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) the body who govern how handicaps are decided and administered. LGS follow these rules and after a member has submitted 3 match scorecards signed and counter signed correctly will award an apropriate handicap. There are acceptions to this, if joining LGS the potential member is also a member of an affiliated club, LGS is obliged to recognise their handicap. Once you have attained a handicap however, you should strive to play better than the handicap suggests every time you play, if you have been lucky to do so then you will be rewarded with a lower handicap (yes, this is a reward because we all would like to be lower in handicap).

If you feel that on the whole you are playing a lot better than your handicap suggests you can apply to the Latimer Golf Society committee to reduce your handicap under the 'volutary handicap reduction' process. Equally the Latimer Golf Society committee can reduce a members handicap if they feel that the player has, on the whole, been playing very well during general play.

Any complaints or problems will be dealt with by the LGS committee.