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It would seem then that the matter is really one of lack of communication from England Golf, and that from all their documents and notes...

This seems the disconnect. The average golfer IS expecting fairness to be judged according to win probability. That is why we compete in...

Thats very interesting thanks, and confirms the feeling of injustice here has some grounds. 1. Kudos to Golf Aus for their openness and...

As has been said many times, it is not particularly useful to focus only on the winners and their scores when assessing equity/fairness...

Golf Australia has access to ALL competition results, that is why they have made changes over the years, but it still discussed by...

"Over the past year there has been one topic of conversation at every golf club in Australia that has created a huge amount of talk, the...

https://aussiegolfer.com.au/australian-golf-handicap-system-to-be-fine-tuned/ makes interesting reading.

A couple of questions : Regional associations like EG or the Australian one linked, I get, have access to all rounds and scores. So...

I've just found in the whs handbook that for general play it may be acceptable, so I share you irritation. These rules are supposed to...

You must play according to the local rules. You cannot choose which local rules to adopt. No more than you can decide to ignore a local...

Possibly valid. My point is more regardless the root cause, the lower handicaps are not going to scale in the same way when factored to...

Yes quite possibly you are right. Whatever the reasons though, a totally different handicap distribution in a field is going to have to...

Wow. Totally different handicap profile in the USA compared to us. 31% of men are single figure or better ! Only 21% are 20 or higher...

Rather than blame or failings, the interesting thing is that handicaps were not sufficiently controlled without a cap. A cap presumably...

I see average handicaps in the USA are 2-3 shots lower than the average in England, so maybe that even things out and makes WHS work...