IanG
Tour Rookie
We were told today that our medal tee SSS has been re-done by the SGU and has increased from 72 to 73. Knee-jerk reaction is - "hey that's great, better chance of getting a cut from the same score". But on reflection, since it is CSS against which you are cut I think it just means that on a day when CSS would have increased to 73 in the past it will not increase now so there will be little or no difference to handicaps.
I can see it makes a difference on (rare) good weather days when CSS can only go down to 72 instead of 71 as could happen previously. So you might get cut an extra increment then for the same gross score.
On the other hand on bad weather days the buffer can now go one stroke extra upwards before a non-counter is declared (say 75 instead of 74 for a cat 2 player ). So you are perhaps more likely to accumulate 0.1's for the same gross score.
It is not clear to me whether overall this will lead to a likely reduction or a likely increase in handicaps for all of us who play most of our qualifiers at home.
Anyone any experience of such a change and what actually happened on the ground?
I can see it makes a difference on (rare) good weather days when CSS can only go down to 72 instead of 71 as could happen previously. So you might get cut an extra increment then for the same gross score.
On the other hand on bad weather days the buffer can now go one stroke extra upwards before a non-counter is declared (say 75 instead of 74 for a cat 2 player ). So you are perhaps more likely to accumulate 0.1's for the same gross score.
It is not clear to me whether overall this will lead to a likely reduction or a likely increase in handicaps for all of us who play most of our qualifiers at home.
Anyone any experience of such a change and what actually happened on the ground?
