Below the my England schedule of HCP allowances is an extract of an article which may assist further.
4 Ball Better ball (Copied from Golf Monthly):-
Four balls is a team format where a team of two golfers each play their own ball.
The teammate with the lower score on each hole provides that team’s score for that hole.
For this reason, the format is also often called Fourball Better Ball (4BBB) as the better score of the pair is counted each time.
The format can be used in Strokeplay or match play such as in the Ryder Cup or Solheim Cup. Each team is responsible for recording their gross score on a hole on a single scorecard and identifying which player shot this. (This is because the net score could be different for each player depending upon their handicaps.)
On each hole the team can elect to record both players’ score or only one. If one player cannot better the score of their partner then he or she need not hole out.
Under the World Handicap System, "each player" will get 85% of handicap allowance in four balls Stroke play OR Stableford competitions. In four balls “match play” it is 90%.
Although each player has to play their own ball, in several respects the players are treated as the same player. Thus a player may, for example, mark his partner’s ball, or lift and clean it, or drop it under penalty. (If these are done incorrectly, the player whose ball it is is the one who is penalised.)
Similarly a player and the player’s caddie may also give help to the partner in the same way that the partner's own caddie would be allowed to do.
One partner can also act for the team in actions such as conceding a shot or a hole.
Or indeed in playing a hole. If one partner fails to turn up on time, his or her partner can play alone for that team until the latecomer does turn up. Partners may also play in the order the side considers best when it is one of their turn to play. So, if Alex and Bill are a fourball team, and Bill would have the next putt as his ball is the furthest away from the hole, the team can elect that Alex plays first, and then Bill, if they so wish.
WHAT ARE BOGEY COMPETITIONS IN GOLF? (Copied from Golf Monthly):- HGC use the Par for each hole
Bogey competitions are a way of playing against the course in a form of matchplay. The course scores bogey on each hole. (This is bogey in the traditional golf meaning as in the score that a good golfer might be expected to make on a hole, not the modern version of one over par.)
Normally the bogey score on a hole is the same as the par score, but in roughly half a dozen holes in an 18-hole round it is likely to be a shot higher than par. As few courses these days have a bogey score listed for each hole, bogey competitions can also be played against the par of each hole. In these circumstances this competition can be called a par competition instead.
The first recorded bogey competitions were played at Coventry Golf Club in 1891. But it was not until 1910 that the R&A framed the official rules for bogey competitions. The concept that on each hole you are rewarded on how you do against the course is one that Dr Frank Stableford took up when he devised the rules for an early version of the competition which now bears his name. Rule 32 of the Rules of Golf is titled ‘Bogey, Par And Stableford Competitions.’
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