Leftie
Tour Winner
I've done a quick search and can't any relavent previous postings.
Our current handicap system works very well and enables players of completely different standards to play competitively against each other - particularly when their h/c's are gained on the same course.
The problem I have found when playing club friendlies is that because courses have different levels of difficulty (I know, you have still got to get the ball into the hole) a player from course A may be more/less skillful than a player from course B with an identical h/c, based on the difficulty of their home course.
I believe that America and some other countries use the Course Slope Rating system to even out this disparity so that everyone with an official h/c can be more certain that their (slope adjusted) h/c is right for the course being played.
Has anyone 1st hand exerience of it? Does it work? Is it too much bother? Have we considered and rejected it?
Our current handicap system works very well and enables players of completely different standards to play competitively against each other - particularly when their h/c's are gained on the same course.
The problem I have found when playing club friendlies is that because courses have different levels of difficulty (I know, you have still got to get the ball into the hole) a player from course A may be more/less skillful than a player from course B with an identical h/c, based on the difficulty of their home course.
I believe that America and some other countries use the Course Slope Rating system to even out this disparity so that everyone with an official h/c can be more certain that their (slope adjusted) h/c is right for the course being played.
Has anyone 1st hand exerience of it? Does it work? Is it too much bother? Have we considered and rejected it?