Your WHS calculator used to look like this until recently:
And it now looks like this:
So why has it changed?
Well in short, it had some bugs – not all options for tees and holes played were available and in one case for 9 hole competitions the Course Handicap was not being calculated correctly (because the calculator was not applying the ’round to 1 decimal place’ to the handicap index value for 9 holes, as required by the R&A handicapping rules).
In addition to that, the original purpose of the calculator was to demonstrate how the calculation worked across all tees at the time WHS was first introduced. This ‘demo’ aspect is no longer considered important, and so the presentation of 3 tees (white, yellow and red) has been reduced to just one line for the tee parameters of slope rating, course rating and par.
Under ‘Choose Parameters’ there are now more options, allowing the choice of gender, holes and tees as well as the playing format that decides the Playing Handicap.
And two action buttons have been introduced. Slope / Course and Par values as well as handicap index can be edited. If you want to keep those edited values, you now press the ‘Save’ button. Previously this was automatic. The ‘Reset’ button sets all slope rating, course rating and par values back to their defaults – just in case you saved a lot of changes that you don’t want to keep.