Handicap query.

[chrisd]

Player X has a handicap of 5 on a really tight, tough, punishing and long course.
He goes and plays in an open competition on another course that is short, wide open, forgiving, flat and easy.
In theory Player X is likely to rip the course apart.
How is this allowed/ monitored????

Maybe in theory, but the 5 h/cap player will invariably get stuffed by an 18 handicapper playing to 6 h/cap. In my experience the low handicap guys do best on a tough course when it's playing long and difficult as they make less mistakes


Chris

 

[Losttheplot]

Old course is SSS 69 and new course is a SSS 72. So does my handicap of 8.1 change when I move to the new course??

Sorry if this is obvious to some people but I've only played 1 comp before so don't know how things like these works.

 

[RGDave]

For example:
Player X has a handicap of 5 on a really tight, tough, punishing and long course.
He goes and plays in an open competition on another course that is short, wide open, forgiving, flat and easy.
In theory Player X is likely to rip the course apart.
How is this allowed/ monitored????

Well, in theory, the SSS should sort this thing out, but it doesn't very well. I think it's commonly accepted that SSS is great for low h'cap players, but a bit dodgy for mid-h'cap players.
As I mentioned once before, I used to play vs. a 12 handicap from a difficult Lancashire links course and he beat me every time over a period of 3 years wherever we met up. I can't believe he'd be off more than 7 at mine.
There's a course I play at (Open Q) quite often and have yet to break 87 (that's 13 more than my PB at mine).
If I decided to join there (if I moved or something) and they wanted to put me off 12, I'd go mental.
It would take me 30-40 comps to get enough 0.1s to get to the 15 (or whatever) I reckon I'd play off given time.