A player with a handicap of zero (or better.)
scratch
The same as you score any game of bowling. A scratch game means no handicap is involved. Your total for a scratch game is the same as your score for the actual game you bowled. Your total for a handicap game is the actual score you bowled plus your handicap.
A 'scratch golfer' is the name given to a golfer whose handicap is zero.
This is an English expression which means to achieve the required standard There are several proposed origins of this idiom. There is the inspection mark that a master would scratch or stamp into a workpiece meanng, if the piece was of sufficient quality, it had come up to scratch. However, predating that explanation is the golfing handicap term. A player who has no handicap is a scratch golfer. A player of lesser quality, who uses the handicap system to be under par if you will, has (does) not come up to scratch.
Most likely this refers to the number of points that is possible for opposing teams to split between, during a week/session.Points are awarded based on several options, which normally include:Team with higher scratch score for a gameTeam with higher handicap score for a gameTeam with higher scratch score for the seriesTeam with higher handicap score for the seriesBowler with higher scratch score for a gameBowler with higher handicap score for a gameBowler with higher scratch score for the seriesBowler with higher handicap score for the series
On his website it says he played off scratch by the age of 13, no indication of his handicap at 14.
0 he played off scratch
It refers to a player who has a handicap of 1-9, a player who plays of 0 is known as scratch and a player who plays of + would be known as a plus handicapper.
While handicap could be applied to any tournament, the majority of no-tap tournaments or leagues are bowled scratch.
It depends completely on the competition scratch score for the course you are playing. But generally your handicap could range from 12 to as much as 18.
It means that it is either a league or tournament event where two people are paired together and the score used to determine the winner of the match / game / event is the team with the highest score bowled (no handicap is added to the score).