Classes & Handicaps, January 2011

Clicking on the title should get you to a summary of our classes and handicaps as they stood a week ago.
As usual at this time of year, the 'Outdoor' classes and Handicaps have been year-end adjusted, so the ones given are those with which you start the new outdoor season which began on Jan 1st. I'm rather relieved that mine is more realistic now!

This time, I'm sorry to have to report that there is an element of uncertainty. We had a rash this year of score sheets which had sections torn out before being handed in. When I cottoned on to what was going on, it had already caused a problem. I asked Derek to request people not to do that. He did put out the request, but with little effect.
The problem was that the remains of the sheet, with other people's scores, fell down to the bottom of the pocket, where they lay without being noticed. A number of scores were delayed, one got wet and stuck to the inside of the pocket for two months, and a Club Record claim went missing for a while. Under those circumstances, I can't guarantee that none are lost, and I can't do much about it. Delays cause errors in people's handicaps, because the sequence in which rounds are shot matters. All this means that some errors may have got through. If any did, they shouldn't be large, and I don't think many people are affected, but I can't really be sure.

Withholding your score by tearing out your section of the sheet causes problems, not for you, but for others on the same score sheet as you - hardly fair to them. OF COURSE you have a perfect right to withhold your score. I don't want to know what you don't want to tell me. You can exercise this right without prejudice to your fellow archers by:

· crossing out the score you want me to ignore, or;

· using a score sheet to yourself, which you can then get countersigned and hand in, or take home, as you wish.

I try to do a decent job as Records Officer. It's a lot of work, and I get few thanks. That's OK - all Club jobs are like that, and I volunteered. But I hope that the minimal co-operation with me and with your fellow-archers that I seek above is not too much to ask.

Frank van der Molen, Records Officer.