When you bowl you are competing in both divisions. Which ever division you have the higher ranking in will be the one you compete in for the stepladder.

Say you avg 210 and you shoot 700 for 3 games.

You are the 2nd high scratch and the high with handi you will be competing for the handicap championship.

if you are the high in both thaen you compete in the scratch.whether you are a 170 avg or a 220 avg.

Hope this helps
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typically when i bowled tournaments that worked like this, handicap was always the first division u went into.  Even if u had 0 handicap, u went in the handicap side if u were high enough to be on the list.  The scratch side was almost always the lower sets bowled.  This helped thin out the handicap side, giving a bit more of an advantage to people actually bowling well, vs people with tons of handicap.

Basically, if a 170 average bowler shoots say....650 scratch, & roughly 760 handicap.  If for some reason the handicap sides cut is 761+ but the scratch side is under 650, he will make the scratch side.

As for a scratch bowler, if his scratch 750 beats all handicappers, he will definately lead the handicap side, leaving 4 full spots to go into the finals from the scratch board.


IMO best case scenario is that the handicap board is full of the top 4 scratch bowlers, & the scratch board is the next 4 scratch bowlers.  That way no matter who wins, its a better bowler, & definately not a sandbagger.


Shawn