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I took up golf in 2021. I see all these acronyms on scorecards etc and while I can easily google them, it isn't clear to me which are actually a "thing" any more.
My understanding is as follows:
CR - the score a scratch golfer would be expected to score, on average, around a given course.
SSS - the same thing? Not used any more in WHS?
CSS - an adjusted version of the above for a given competition day. Also not used any more?
Slope - a factor used to calculate playing handicaps under WHS, based on the difference of perceived difficulty between a scratch golfer and a bogey golfer (around 20 HCI for a male, I believe). Was this a thing before WHS?
PCC - competition handicap correction. Has this replaced CSS? Used in conjunction?
Also, what does par actually mean for a golf course? Does it just come from the course length? Because to the layman it sounds like the score you should aim to go around in... but isn't that CR?
My understanding is as follows:
CR - the score a scratch golfer would be expected to score, on average, around a given course.
SSS - the same thing? Not used any more in WHS?
CSS - an adjusted version of the above for a given competition day. Also not used any more?
Slope - a factor used to calculate playing handicaps under WHS, based on the difference of perceived difficulty between a scratch golfer and a bogey golfer (around 20 HCI for a male, I believe). Was this a thing before WHS?
PCC - competition handicap correction. Has this replaced CSS? Used in conjunction?
Also, what does par actually mean for a golf course? Does it just come from the course length? Because to the layman it sounds like the score you should aim to go around in... but isn't that CR?