Analysing very crudely, due to the nature of handicap calculations and scoring patterns, most players will only have 2 or 3 scores at or better than handicap in their most recent 20 (I have 2), or 10-15%.
So it's quite possibly 'your fault' that PCC was zero!
So far in the 30 plus comps I've played so far this year, not one has any adjustment for pcc. I'll have to ask my couple of mates who are Dornoch members what there's have been like as pretty much every comp there used to have a css higher than the Sss and quite often was RO
"Usually fairly windy" is (or should be) accounted for in the Course Rating (and Slope).
If CSS was going up in almost every competition, especially in normal conditions, the SSS was very clearly wrong (or everyone's handicaps were too low).
It's a tough golf course and normal conditions is not something understand?
I dare not enter a comp at the moment, just in case I shoot a good score and end up off 2??
From what you have said, there may be legacy CSS translations being applied to pre-November 2020 scores that are artificially reducing your handicap indexes. However if your most recent 20 scores are all valid and played since November 2020, then your handicaps will be correct, and you are just better than you thought.
I've had some good scores this year and pretty much have replaced all my 20 scores. But the difference is under the old system, I've been off 5/4 the last 8 years. With only 0.1 cuts and equally as many 0.1 increase and buffers I would have zero chancebof getting to my current index of 2.7. I wasn't a 3 handicap before and I'm still not, just the bad rounds don't count any longer.
The old handicapping system was supposed to reflect your potential but for lower handicaps (cat 1) it simply didn't work that way because, without a consistent run of good scoring and/or playing in lots of comps where CSS always went up, e.g. scratch opens, you were perpetually anchored by your earlier higher handicap. With WHS, which is an "average best" system, that anchor has gone and your handicap is now much better reflection of your current scoring.
Under CONGU yes, not under WHS. By it's nature it's an averaging vehicle, so you should be 4/5 out of 20 constantly. I have 5 of my 8 below my current HCI.
Also have 30 scores in, two of the Opens I've played in have had an adjustment, and none in club competitions. SG say the new system is more conservative than the old system. They can say that again, so conservative to be Gavin Williamson in its effectiveness.
that's not a thing
That was a joke
You have to bear in mind that a player's scoring pattern is very asymmetrical around their average best. Most players will have a couple of really good scores that bring that average down below the differentials of almost all of their other counting scores; some have one score so good, it's the only one below their average.
This!
Something I'd never given a thought to till now. Just had a flick through about 15 of our most regular players, only one other had 5 below their HCI like me, a number of 4, but three seems to be the go to number. No twos or sixes.
