There are two reasons why your handicap for any given tournament may not match your up to the minute GHIN index:

 

1) The Club Index is being applied.

 

2) To give people plenty of time to plan day, we try to publish tee times 4-5 days in advance - and handicaps are set when the tournament is created. We're not going to update indexes at the last second, which may change flights, pairings, and tee times. For this reason, your handicap for any given tournament may be below or above (if you're lucky) your Current Index. 

 

For more information, visit our Handicap Policy page.