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Originally Posted by JohnFromMaine
If all the placements are in the easiest locations, you still wouldn't see everyone score the same.
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True, but studies have shown that better golfers will score closer to their average score as the course gets more difficult. Higher handicap golfers will score much worse than their typical score on a course that's much more difficult than what they usually play.
That's what the SLOPE system is all about. If you made a course as easy as possible the higher handicap players would score much better than their average and the better players would only score a little better than average. As the course gets more difficult, the better player would only score a bit higher and the high handicapper would score much worse.
If you took a scratch player and an 18 handicap and had them play a match at Silver Lake, or Hilltop, for example with the 18 getting a stroke a hole, the higher handicap would have a much better chance of winning the match that if they played at say, TPC Sawgrass, where the 18 handicapper might need two strokes per hole.
Moving all of the holes to the middle of the greens would benefit the higher handicap player more than the better player.