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The Port Hills Polo club committee:

President – Dean Geddes
Treasurer – Ben Turner
Secretary – Bridget de Barre
Club Captain – Pete Foley
Handicapper – Hamish Cottier
Selector – Matt O’Sullivan
Management – Dean Geddes & Matt O’Sullivan
Patron – Bryce Black

Club handicaps:

Dave Allen 5

Hamish Cottier 2

Bridget De Barre 0

Andy Florence 2

Peter Foley -2

Brent Geddes 1

Dean Geddes 3

Noel Gillman -1

Peter Graham 0

Simon Graham 0

Jack Holloway -1

Brian Hutchinson -2

Mark Hutchinson -2

Hamish Menzies -2

Matt O’Sullivan 3

Ben Turner -1

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How handicaps work:

Handicaps

Each polo player is handicapped (on a 4-6 chukka basis) from -2 up to 10 goals (the top professional players). The aggregate handicap of the four players in a team is the team handicap. e.g. if all players have a handicap of 2 goals each, the team handicap is 8 goals and is referred to as an ‘8 goal team’. In handicap polo tournaments , if both teams do not have an equal aggregate handicap, one team is given a number of goals start which is calculated as follows: the number of goals start is obtained by multiplying the difference between the two teams’ handicaps by the number of chukkas and dividing by 6, any fraction counting a half a goal.

(Courtesy of Hurlingham Polo http://www.hurlinghampolo.com/polo_rules.php)