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Originally Posted by JungleJ
I don't know how it is anywhere else but according to the RCGA handicap manual, a player can only have one handicap. The RCGA (Canada) system is based on the USGA's so I imagine it might well be the same. Also the handicap to be used is the lower since the index is based on best play.
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There's a guy I know who plays off scratch right-handed. Then he got injured and couldn't play right-handed for a while, so he played left-handed. He went and spoke to the committee of his club about it and pointed out that if they made him play off his right-hand handicap, then his handicap would go up and it would mean that he would then be too high when he could play right-handed again. Some of them were reluctant, but let him put in three cards left-handed. They gave him I think a six handicap left-handed. Couple of months later, he had a really good round and shot about one over in a club competition. He knew this was going to cause trouble, so he filled in his card, but didn't sign it and circled the signature box to make it obvious he hadn't signed it, meaning that they could apply the score for his handicap, but that he'd be disqualified and so wouldn't win. They flipped out and stopped letting him have two handicaps. All it meant in the end was that he won a couple of things once he was back to playing right-handed again. So, it does kind of make sense to let people have two handicaps.