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Originally Posted by Rich Iwaszko
Actually, with a course rating that is too high, the handicaps are deflated and thats why, as writers have noted, they don't travel well. With a lower rating handicaps will go up but would be truer. Downside is you won't be able to brag you are a 5 handicap when your actually a 9.
Slope ratings on golf courses won't make up for the fact that your course rating is too high.  It takes a difference of 10 points on a course slope to move the needle by 1 stroke
You are again slaughtered. Sorry, don't bet outside the bubble........... |
OK, let's try this again. Say you shot 80 exactly on the best 8 of your last 20 rounds on a course in TV with a rating of 67. Your index will be about 12.5-13. Now, if as you suggest, they drop the rating to 61. Your index is now18.5-19. Please explain how that is a
deflated handicap. Now, you might make the case that a 5 handicap from a course with too high a rating is not as skilled as a golfer from a course with a "true" rating, but then you would have to look at course ratings everywhere. Are they all too high???