2026 SEASON · LIVE

The Eccles
Eclectic

Best score on every hole, carried all year. 13 players chasing the lowest nett — handicaps recalculated every single month.

Months Played
Players
Leading Nett
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Standings

Every month's leaderboard, most recent first
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Players

Select a player for their full season breakdown
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How The Eccles Eclectic Works

The short version, then the confusing bit — properly explained

Every month, all 13 players play a stroke round. Instead of just comparing each month's round on its own, an Eclectic competition remembers your best-ever score on each hole, all year, and adds those 18 best scores together. So even a shocker of a round can still help your score — smash one hole that day, and that new best sticks for good, no matter how the rest of the round goes.

Working Out Your Nett Score

Step 1

Best score per hole
For each of the 18 holes, take the lowest score you've ever carded there this year, across every round you've played.

Step 2

Add them up = Gross
Your 18 best-ever hole scores, added together. This can only go down as the year goes on — never up.

Step 3

Minus 75% of your handicap = Nett
We take 75% of your handicap and subtract it from Gross. This Nett number is what decides the leaderboard.

A Real Example — Hole 1

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Watch how, once a good score is locked in, a worse round afterwards can't undo it:

⚠️ Why This Site Sometimes Won't Match The Club's Official Report

Your handicap changes after every round of golf you play — a Saturday comp, a midweek round, anything entered into the system — not just your monthly Eccles round. The club's official software applies your handicap as of right now, whenever the report is generated. This site only finds out your handicap when someone types it in for that month's Eccles round — so if your handicap moves because of golf played outside this competition, this site is stuck on the old number until an admin refreshes it.

It just happened for real — here's exactly what that looked like for Nick Renneberg in August 2026:

Nick plays his August Eccles round
Handicap recorded: 18.0
Nick plays other golf later in August
His real handicap moves to 19.0 — this site doesn't see it happen
Club's official report is pulled
Shows Nett 48.75 (using 19.0) — site still showed 49.50 (using 18.0)
Admin updates his Day HC to 19.0
Site now matches the club exactly ✅

Quick Answers

Why do two players show the same rank?

Tied Nett scores share a rank, exactly like the club's own report — e.g. two players both on 49.50 both show rank 2, and the next player is rank 4, not 3.

What if I miss a month?

Nothing bad happens — your best-per-hole total simply carries forward unchanged until your next round. You just won't gain any new best scores that month.

Why "75%" of my handicap?

That's the reduction Barnwell Park applies specifically for this Eclectic competition — it's not your full handicap, and not something this site decides.

The Formula

Gross = Σ (best score per hole, holes 1–18)
Nett = Gross − (Handicap × 0.75)
Lower Nett = higher on the leaderboard
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