rosecott
Money List Winner
I don't see that. The match could be done and dusted before the higher handicapper gets a chance to use two of his shots.
I don't see that. The match could be done and dusted before the higher handicapper gets a chance to use two of his shots.
SGC001
Challenge Tour Pro
The S.I system leaves a lot to be desired.
It's sort of seems to be designed around an individual match play scenario. However, I'm not sure it really works in matchplay either. A course near me has probably 7 of the hardest 9 holes on the front 9, which can give a momentum boost to 1 player over another.
The system almost certainly doesn't lend it self well to some events such as betterball strokeplay where for example a scratch player plays with someone off 10. The indexes make little difference to the scratch player, however the 10 handicapper who gets 8 shots has 4 shots on easy holes lending themselves to net birdies (the scratch player taking care of the harder holes the 10 handicapper doesn't get his 4 shots on). Hence some ridiculous scores.
They could really do with 2 separate indexing systems to deal with that issue.
It's sort of seems to be designed around an individual match play scenario. However, I'm not sure it really works in matchplay either. A course near me has probably 7 of the hardest 9 holes on the front 9, which can give a momentum boost to 1 player over another.
The system almost certainly doesn't lend it self well to some events such as betterball strokeplay where for example a scratch player plays with someone off 10. The indexes make little difference to the scratch player, however the 10 handicapper who gets 8 shots has 4 shots on easy holes lending themselves to net birdies (the scratch player taking care of the harder holes the 10 handicapper doesn't get his 4 shots on). Hence some ridiculous scores.
They could really do with 2 separate indexing systems to deal with that issue.
