Course Handicaps

[Lihu]

Lucky? What's wrong with good?

Your course handicap from yesterday was 17. Today it was 15. Mine would have been 6 and 5 respectively. If you and I had been playing a match each day, you would have received 11 strokes from me yesterday, but only 10 today. That recognizes that even though we're the same golfers on both days, the more difficult course should represent a greater incremental challenge to you than it should to me.

Don't confuse a differential from a given round, with your course handicap. They're 2 entirely different things, even though both provide an indication of the relative difficulty of different courses. Note that today, even though you scored 8 strokes better than yesterday, your differential was only a single stroke better. That's a direct reflection of how much easier today's course was than yesterday's.

Ah, I see. The raw score looked really deceptive to me.

I see how it works, now. Thanks for explaining.

[BuckeyeNut]

Hmmmmm.....this got me thinking.   I briefly reached a 0.0 index in 2012 and I am curious to see how my BEST 10 average compared to the course rating.   The only problem is 1 round from different/shorter tees counted, so this throws off the average a bit but here it goes......

Best 10:   76, 75, 77, 76, 77,  75, 75, 73, 73, 71*(different tees)= 748/10    74.8!!!!!   WOW.....that is CLOSE!  If I eliminate the round played from shorter tees(71)........ 677/9= 75.22!!!!!

I guess there is some sense to this!!!!  My best 10 average was within a 10th of a stroke from the CR!!!!!

Very interesting..........