Competition Handicaps

Every so often, we learn something new. So when checking scores in a recent medal, I found that a member who had a handicap of 28, the computer gave the player a maximum of 24 in what was an Extra Medal.There a short discussion as to why this was, but I never realised that members who had an official handicap of 25 - 28, were never allowed to play off more than 24.In January this year, I attended a seminar of the changes to the new handicapping system (which effectively allowed a handicap of up