WEATHER CONDITIONS

AT My windswept course there will always be at least half a dozen days every summer when it is so difficult that the standard scratch score for handicap purposes would rise to 75 or 76 under the old system, and a couple so filthy they would simply be declared non-qualifiers. now, playing course conditions are determined solely by the algorithms of a computer that clearly thinks the sun beats down every day, for we did not have a single competition this year where the standard scratch score went up. As you can imagine, this went down really well with those trying to play to their handicap in a gale.