Reductions only ....

[Imurg]

We don't have fairway watering and so we are at the mercy of the elements and it is hard, bouncy and fast with thick rough waiting if you go too far off line. However the greens are looking and playing superbly and so I can't understand how it can be reductions only. Some very low scores coming in recently

Simple
Everyone plays crap.....
Weather and course conditions don't affect play as much as people think.
If you're playing well you'll score well.
If you're not you won't....

 

[HawkeyeMS]

the 5 that had cuts had them approptiate the course conditions on the day...

next?

But none of those who didn't make the buffer by a couple of shots were afforded the same leniency(sp?)

I don't expect you to answer that, we'll never agree so not really any point

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Simple
Everyone plays crap.....
Weather and course conditions don't affect play as much as people think.
If you're playing well you'll score well.
If you're not you won't....

Finally the cavalry as arrived :thup:

 

[duncan mackie]

But none of those who didn't make the buffer by a couple of shots were afforded the same leniency(sp?)

I don't expect you to answer that, we'll never agree so not really any point

ah but others are reading this (maybe )

anyone who had played 1 shot outside the SSS buffer would have benefitted from the fine tuning........

 

[HawkeyeMS]

ah but others are reading this (maybe )

anyone who had played 1 shot outside the SSS buffer would have benefitted from the fine tuning........

OK, but in the case that CSS went up 1 but no-one else made the buffer, shouldn't CSS have gone up more if the course was playing that hard? (I'm genuinely intrigued now, not just being argumentative)

 

[Imurg]

it's designed to stop cat 1 golfers (and RickG) selectively playing Q comps when the conditions favour shooting a lower score than SSS in an environment that has 'weather' as a climate and can vary hugely through the season, so that they give themselves the best chance of retaining, or creating, a 'low handicap'.

Then they are nothing but Handicap Protectionists and a very poor example of a "Golfer".
Play the game - score well you get cut, score badly you go up 0.1
Simple really...

Handicaps are not a Life Force....you don't expire just because you've gone up to Cat 2......