Your handicap index doesn't depend on the slope of your home course.
It isn't? Is there a difference between calculating the handi. for the home course and other courses? All I do is punch in a score and it gives me a rating.
You're Handicap Index (expressed with 1 decimal e.g. 2.3) is totally "portable" and already factors in the Course Rating and Slope where your scores were recorded.
So a 2.3 is a 2.3 without the need to qualify what course or courses it came from. (This is different than the old method, without Slope, where it mattered greatly the difficulty of the course your handicap came from.)
Technically, a 2.3 Index would be expected to shoot 2.3 strokes above the Course Rating on a course with a slope of 113.
Technically, a 2.3 Index would be expected to shoot 2.3 strokes above the Course Rating on a course with a slope of 113.
Jim Markovitz is probably the best male am, and Lindsay Gahm the best female.
Because an index is computed using your 10 best differentials out of 20 and only 96% of each differential is used and because of ESC adjustments, technically a golfer would not be expected to shoot 2.3 strokes above the course rating on a course with a 113 slope.
Probably? Let's just remove speculation and hold the first Manzella Forum Open. Have a shirt folders/calligraphy division and an amateur division (separate prizes for men and women if need be). That'll figure it out. Anyone game?
What do you mean by "shirt folders and calligraphy division"? Are you implying that this is all golf professionals do?
Right now, my game travels like a new born infant.