My Club has increased SSS...

[Deleted member 1147]

My club has changed it's SSS up 1 shot (or should I say, the authorities have), the paperwork came through this week.
Being as the course was reviewed during the playing season do I have any opportunity to reduce my handicap retrospectively, based on performances in the year, which with the new SSS would have led to a 0.8 decrease in the year?

Thanks in advance

 

[patricks148]

I'd be surprised if you could get a retrospective cut because of the change.

 

[Val]

No, because handicaps in comps are based on CSS therefore more often than not the SSS becomes irrelevant

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I thought as much, but was wondering if anyone had any experience of the situation. I was 1 over buffer so many times last year, & finished dead on it quite a few times. I reckon I could get a 0.8 cut if SSS & CSS were the same every round.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

No, because handicaps in comps are based on CSS therefore more often than not the SSS becomes irrelevant

But the CSS is also based on the SSS but there is no retrospective HC changes . The course rating only comes active when the paperwork is then signed off and you Course is updated within the system ( IG or CS ) - our SSS was changed last year on the system and it wasn't backdated even though we were rated a while before that

 

[rulefan]

Apart from anything else, the handicap for everyone who returned a qualifying score on that course before the re-rating would have to be examined. The question of how far back to go would have to be determined. This would have to be done for all courses when the SSS moves up or down as a result of the USGA rating being done. But this would have to be done for every player in the country every time any course is adjusted, just in case one non-member has played a qualifier there.
The mind boggles.

But remember the new rating has been done with different criteria so the SSS and Scratch Course Rating (CR) are not directly comparable.

Incidentally, as Bogey Ratings will have been done at the same time and a Slope factor calculated, should this be included in a revision? Even though the SSS/CR may not have changed, the playing handicap would be different for pretty well all non scratch players.

 

[chrisd]

Our sss was changed a year or so back and the sss is now the same as par off the white tees, but no backdating took place

 

[rulefan]

Our sss was changed a year or so back and the sss is now the same as par off the white tees, but no backdating took place

The rules say it doesn't.