cliveb
Head Pro
It reacts a heck of a lot faster for improving players than it does for deteriorating ones.The other thing is rapidly improving players, I think in some of the new rules proposals they are trying to address this, the current system doesn't react quickly enough to someone who is improving quickly.
A young guy fairly new to the game joined my club a few months ago. Six weeks ago he was playing off about 20. A few more comps, and a couple of weeks ago he was 15. Then he shot 49 points (!) in a charity event. Next day he was off 10
This tells me that the system seems to be working pretty well for rapid improvers.
In contrast, there are some older guys who don't have a cat in hell's chance of playing to their handicap, and because of this they tend not to bother entering many qualifiers. Result: very few HCP increases, meaning they can't compete in the social swindles. But to their credit, they keep joining in for the joy of playing.