Course lengths - pars-sss

[evahakool]

Could anyone enlighten me as to why of the two courses i play one is 6152 long par 71 sss 69 the other one is 6061 long par72 sss 71

 

[brendy]

Its all in the difficulty my man. A 7000 yard wide open course where pars are easy enough or a 6000 rat run where everyone scores bogeys or worse. Every course is different the way I understand it.
The slightly longer course is easier by the looks of it.

 

[evahakool]

Ok thanks for that,sorry post meant to be in lounge.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

The SSS is based on the difficulty of the course for a scratch golfer.

My course was recently appraised.
A mark was made in the middle of each fairway, 260 yds from the white tees. Then the hazards, fiarway width, prevailing weather conditions etc were checked and rated.
Our SSS in now -1 from whites & -2 from yellows. It used to be level par & -3 respectively beforehand.

 

[RGDave]

I recently played a course par 71 sss 71. I found this a strange arrangement, considering there were no holes where I couldn't get up.....something I'm normally very pleased to discover. However, 3 of the holes had trees smack bang in the middle of the fairways effectively blocking out the second shot after a centre-cut drive. I dropped a whopping 9 strokes on those 3 holes, and played the other 15 holes to 6.

A scratch golfer would probably have the shots to get round those pesky trees (over, under, around) but not a mortal like me. I guess I can see now why the SSS was up with the par!