I am in Canada in one of the few places you can golf year round. The ratings changed was through Golf Canada and no tees have changed. Through are match coordinator the changes will be in place until February 15th and than the slope and rating will go back to normal.
Interesting. Makes sense in a way, the decreased roll in wet winter fairways would make the course play longer, so the CR and Slope would increase a little. I just haven’t seen seasonal changes before.
Last year at this time until March if we posted a score it would not count towards are official handicap.
What are the feelings about adding a score when a course doesn’t exist or says closed for the year when you enter a date when it was open?
Example one: no course in the database but slope and to par on card. Do you find a course with same slope and to par on card and just enter data there, or do you just let it be?
Example two: I am playing in the midwest and most of the time I try to enter a score it says I am entering outside of normal playing times. So do you back date to a time they were open, or again, just leave it be?
Would like to hear the consensus on this one.
If the handicap posting season is closed, don’t enter the score. If the course is open for play, thats great, but that’s a different thing from being open season for handicap posting. If the course isn’t listed in the USGA database, the rating is almost certainly out of date, the score shouldn’t be entered.
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Thank you Dave. I never knew they kept course open but stopped allowing the posting of scores. That is very interesting. It’s the little things you don’t know when living in Vegas.
You can check out the handicap posting seasons for each state here
https://www.usga.org/handicapping-articles/handicap-active-and-inactive-season-schedule-25489.html
Its a little arbitrary, I play in the most northern part of Virginia, and we post year round. Just 10 miles or so north, in Maryland, they’re already in their inactive season. What matters is the location of the course, not where you keep your handicap. If you go to Florida in January, post those scores, even if you live in Minnesota.
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Just discovered the PCC can add a stroke on “easy” days… I’m not a fan of that adjustment.
It subtracts from the course rating on the easy days.
Call it what you will… my 82 on one day has the same differential as my 83 on a different day…
I know it’s limited to one stroke, and can go three strokes the other direction, but it just seems odd.
Why is it odd? Surely it’s sensible that, if an adjustment can be made for a significantly harder than average day, the same can be done for a significantly easier than average day.