sweatysock41
Q-School Graduate
Handicap is handicap, either it's a fair system or it's not?
If it's not fair then scrap it and we'll all play off scratch, can really see the sport appealing to the masses then.
Cake and eat it maybe...
But the point is that handicap is based on stroke in which all shots are counted, but different mathematics apply in matchplay, and using 3/4 roughly settles the difference.
Sorry I thought that all shots count on a hole anyway unless your opponent concedes. To me it's irrelevant what the format is. The difference in ability is what the handicap system is trying to address - if its monumentally wrong change it.
As said earlier CONGU have analysed thousands of rounds and come to the conclusion that it is a misconception that full allowance favours the high handicapper.