HC and Course Familiarity...

[double_j]

Seems to me like most people are saying that your handicap is higher if you play many different courses, which is what my initial thought was. So if you have two people with the same HC, the one who plays different courses will tend to be a better player than the one who plays only one of two courses exclusively--even though their HC is the same.

Way too wide of a generalization but wisdom does come with experience. The more you play in different circumstances, the more you tend to learn.

Shot by shot, I'd expect the two to play equal. But over the course of a whole round, on a track unfamiliar to both players, I would expect that the person who makes a habit of playing different courses would be more likely to marginally outperform.