No Returns in Stablefords | Golf Monthly

What does the system do now? I've a mate at another club, I think they use howdidido. He has a habit of just giving up on a round, and not handing in his score. Despite being a fairly "respected" club in the area, they just put the score in as all zeros (not sure if they physically do this, or the system does this if no card submitted). Anyway, looking at his record, his last 5 rounds have 2 scores of 129 and 1 score of 130. Basically, it has assumed he has had 18 nett double bogeys in 3 rounds of his last 5. 5 rounds ago, his Index was 17.8 (course handicap 21). It is now 20.0 (course handicap 23). After individual rounds, he had a couple of 0.6 increases alone.

He doesn't actually play that much, to be fair. But if he did, I guess he'd quickly reach the hard cap with a similar mindset. Especially as his best 8 rounds are generally amongst his oldest, so he will be losing them pretty quickly once he submits more scores.