cobaltm:As a child of the 70's I'll thank you to not speak ill about my calculator!!!
Mike:
Here's a funny story for you. When my uncle (born in the 50's) went to college, his Accounting instructor had students take turns putting 20 numbers on a movable chalkboard. The board was moved to where no one, including the instructor could see the numbers being written down. One by one, students would walk up to the board and write a random number down (between 100 - 100,000). Once all of the numbers were written on the board, the board would be moved to where everyone could see. He said if only one student could run their calculator faster than he could cypher, the entire class could use their calculator that semester. No one could. Said instructor never allowed a calculator to be used in his class during his tenure at the college; although he always had this offer at the beginning of each semester.
Unfortunately, I never got the opportunity to learn how to cypher efficiently. I can do simple math in my head, but throw in a Sine, Tangent or Cotangent calc and I'm lost without my calculator, but I'm pretty confident that I can highlight a list of scores and click a button faster than you can review that same list of scores and pick the best 10 out of 20 scores and compute the average.
With that little bit of trivia, what I would like to obtain is, (1) do you feel when there are multiple tiers playing in a "Net" tournament using different tees, should there be an adjustment factor incorporated to adjust the handicap of those playing from the longer tees or should they simply play based on the best 10 of 20 average? (2) why?
After manually computing several handicaps and reviewing tourneys that I have won, I can see that using a static "par" is the best and most fair approach. With that said, a TM with a -3 handicap playing against a legend with a -3 handicap, the TM wins the "net" more than the Legend. I checked 4 tourneys ... TM wins 3 out of 4 times.
Ms Fish:
I can understand that some may not like this. I for one hate playing Congressional or Olympic tourneys, but do. I'm also not real fond of St. Andrews, but 90 percent of our CC's tourneys are setup on St. A's. I also play these tourneys, even though they are not my favorite.
With that said, the handicap would be used to determine a "Net" winner. If you have tournaments where all players can enter, most times the winner will be a low average Legend or Tour Legend. If you setup a multiple game tournament (usually 4 front nines and 4 back nines), and incorporate the handicap system with these 8 games, you'll get a totally different story. Sure, it is still possible to have a Legend or Tour Legend win a "Net" tournament, but the handicaps will make this style of tourney fair to all members. Those most likely to dislike this type of tourney would be the lower average players, since they will be giving away strokes to equal out the playing field.
I'm not saying the handicap system should be used for each and every tournament. It just gives you another style of tourney. Just know that in order to determine the true winner, some manual work will need to be done.(computing the players' handicaps, then putting together the final "net" scores).
With the spreadsheet, it can lessen the amount of work required (automatic handicap calculation and automatic score posting after the tourney is closed). Just be aware that this style of tourney will require some manual work.