Par 3's and their stroke index

[SGC001]

Two points:

It's the same for everyone.
Swings and roundabouts.

Why, does every pair have the same handicap?

Take 2 pairs a scratch golfer and a player off 5 and a scratch golfer and a player off 10

Indexes 1-4 happen to be about right for difficulty, indexes 5-8 are actually the easiest 4 holes on the course.

It's all the same for the scratch golfers. On indexes 1-4 it's fair, but is it on indexes 5-8?
Here you could expect the 10 handicapper to use his extra 4 shots so giving 4 net birdies for the team. The real indexes 5-8 the scratch golfer can take care off so they may well pick up more shots due to the indexing system utilised.


Yes it's about blobs, and where you'd get 1 point as aopposed to none. Hardest hole only 1 shot take a 10, easiest hole, get 2 shots net eagle. Here you would've gained an extra point over the 2 holes because of the funny indexing.

Edit: maybe I can make this simpler to understand

Assume you have 10 shots and you score a treble on index 10 and a par on index 18 (ranked according to difficulty). here you get 2 points onthose 2 holes. Now switch the indexes around on those 2 holes and you get 3 points for the net birdie and still zero points on the other hole. If indexes don't reflect the difficulty of the hole you can benefit on those easier hole to a greater degree than you may get punished on the harder holes where you are in theory more likely to blob.

 

[BTatHome]

BT, it it to try and keep games alive right up until the 18th, instead of having them over and done by 14.

Yes but why does it matter in medal/stableford.

BTW: I can see the difference when explained in the above post (index 10 and index 18), but using trebles to get across the point lessens the impact for me

 

[Captainron]

Assume you have 10 shots and you score a treble on index 10 and a par on index 18 (ranked according to difficulty). here you get 2 points onthose 2 holes. Now switch the indexes around on those 2 holes and you get 3 points for the net birdie and still zero points on the other hole. If indexes don't reflect the difficulty of the hole you can benefit on those easier hole to a greater degree than you may get punished on the harder holes where you are in theory more likely to blob.

Playing off 8 means thatIamhardly ever given a stroke on a par 3 which doesn't seem fair if a spread of shots is the purpose of stoke index.