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What is the incentive to reduce one's handicap? To behave with integrity and honesty. According to the rules of handicapping a player...

Because it's a circular calculation. You are suggesting that we determine the CR and ultimately slope based on the scores submitted by...

No, there is no direct assessment of difficulty. Difficulty is determined by proximity of the obstacle to centre of the target (and edge...

1) I am no expert, but pretty sure difficulty of shot is not a direct part of any assessment. 2) It is not one visit from one assessor...

Only if they sit on the competition committee, which is unusual in my experience.

1)There is very little subjectively involved in assessments. 2) 10-20 rounds if golf is nowhere near enoufh rounds to provide...

For this to provide any sort of accuracy each course will have needed to have a large number of scratch golfers froma wide variety of...

I sold a car via The Motorway about two years ago. Got an offer slightly higher that the intial estimate. All went very smooth on...

A fact you say, then why have I been able to find a number of this years entries who have GP scores in their 20 rounds preceeding the...

And even then only if their average score over their GP rounds is significantly better than their competition average score.

I disagree players have taken another step to draw that conclusion. CR remains only relevent to scratch golfers in terms of difficulty...

I agree

It’s probably better that they have not played the course- leads to a more unbiased rating, strictly according to the rating process and...

EVs aren't for all but a lot of people who haven't got them could easily switch to them without any problems.

All of my counties major scratch competitions are played over multiple rounds but with separate prizes awarded for each 18 holes as...