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[Bobirdie]

Obviously hard to understand as its based on scores at certain holes,well so i have been told.

Played yesterday in the rain and heavy wind,my playing partner struggled round and managed to shoot 1 under nett which would have got him a cut,only to find out the css had dropped down a stroke.lol.

That was with only 2 nett scores under par lol

Why do we play this game

 

[Fyldewhite]

The CSS calculation is done with respect to the proportion of the field who shoot SSS+2 or better having ignored category 4 players. The number of really good scores is irrelevant as a nett +2 counts just the same as a nett -7 in the calculation. If the CSS went down then despite the weather players were obviously scoring quite well overall. Maybe the bad weather wasn't all day or pehaps there were just a lot of easy pins etc.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

CSS is pointless and this is a perfect example of why.

CSS has nothing to do with conditions or the difficulty of the course. It is entirely based on the inconsistency of club golfers.

 

[Imurg]

Exactly. Poor conditions and CSS goes down. Flies in the face of the reasoning for it.
Do away with it right now!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Totally agree. Rubbish concept

 

[Billysboots]

I'm glad it's not just me!

I played a midweek medal at our place a few weeks back in a howling gale. And I mean a howling gale - made all the worse by the fact that our course is really exposed despite being inland.

I shot 6 over playing off 10, none of the remainder of the field knocked it round under their handicap, and I thought "Happy Days - single figures here I come!".

You can imagine how gutted I was to find that CSS was two under the course par and SSS, and I only lost 0.4 leaving me on 9.7.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You can imagine how gutted I was to find that CSS was two under the course par and SSS, and I only lost 0.4 leaving me on 9.7.

CSS can only go down 1 below SSS, if your club has gone down more then you need to ask questions.

 

[Billysboots]

CSS can only go down 1 below SSS, if your club has gone down more then you need to ask questions.

Sorry - typo. It was two under par and one under the SSS.

 

[Swinger]

Totally agree. Rubbish concept

The concept is actually pretty good, just doesn't seem to work properly in practise at a mid club level.
CSS seems to work better in County events or events where mainly cat1 players are, guess thats due to weather effecting them all in a similar way.

If everyone had a proper handicap then the CSS would work properly at all levels.

By proper I mean a true reflection of their playing ability at that time. As we all know the H/C system can take a little time to catch up with people who are improving and a lot longer to catch up with people who are going backwards.