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  •      Handicaps are used to bring good players back to mediocre scores. No one in the MGA gets strokes taken off their score, only added.

         All players with handicaps better than 18 will have penalty strokes added to their tournament scores to offset their superhuman golfing capabilities. The number of penalty strokes added at each event is determined by their current handicap on the morning of the tournament.

          The amount of penalty strokes a player carries is calculated by rounding their handicap up from .5 and down from .4, then subtracting that number from 18. (ex. Handicap of 15.4 rounds down to 15, so 18-15=3 penalty strokes) This is automatically calculated on you MGAtour.com profile. You must have at least 5 scores in to calculate a handicap and the more scores you put in, the more accurate it will be.

         If your handicap is not considered valid as described above, you will not be able to enter any MGA events on the website. Stop being a sandbagger and get a couple old scores in! It's really not that hard.

    NO MATTER HOW MANY PENALTY STROKES YOU ARE CARRYING, A 79 OR BETTER WILL DISQUALIFY YOU FROM ANY MGA EVENT. WHY? ARE YOU REALLY ASKING WHY? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY SHOOTING IN THE 70'S IS NOT MEDIOCRE AND YOU SHOULD BE PRACTICING FOR THE NEXT NATIONWIDE TOUR MONDAY QUALIFIER INSTEAD OF CLUBBING BABY SEALS IN THE MGA.