>>>There are two weekend hackers competing. One normally shoots around 80, the other around 90. Courses have handicaps by hole. Is it the same to apply the handicaps per hole are you play as using the 10 stroke difference at the end of the round?
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>>Hi Jay.
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>>Don't quite understand the question. But there is no formula, that I know of, for spotting your friend a few strokes.
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>There are handicaps on each hole, rating the difficulty. I have played with people who would apply a number of strokes to a hole based on that, starting with the most difficult hole and going down for the 10 strokes. Some holes would get 2 strokes, others 1 and the remaining 0. It seems a fairly common practice.

yeah. I've done things like that before. lots of ways to skin a cat, as the saying goes.
but in the end all you're doing is giving strokes, so the hole handicap really doesn't matter in stroke play.... but in match-play it would matter on which holes you give stroke(s).