ADGA-MSDGA Summer Sanctioned Singles Spectacular

Off the top, everyone let me know if you're coming out to week 2 - we'll be at Peter's Creek. Be there and in the parking lot by 6:15 so we can draw hole assignments. Just a reminder of how the pools ... show more ›

Off the top, everyone let me know if you're coming out to week 2 - we'll be at Peter's Creek. Be there and in the parking lot by 6:15 so we can draw hole assignments. Just a reminder of how the pools are done, I split the pools into the top half of the ratings and the bottom half. Then within each pool, the handicapped scores are calculated and compared. If you're between like 860-900 in rating, you'll probably end up floating between the two different pools depending on who shows up that week.

Week 1 went great - 16 folks came out for week 1 of the league. The baskets were all in new positions, so the course played really tough - no easy birdies anymore! Jake, Robinson, and I shot the hot rounds with 54s, and Robinson took A pool because of his slightly better handicap. Tyler Pohler crushed his rating and took down B pool with a raw score of 67, but an adjusted score of 46.9. Payouts will go out some time this weekend likely - if you paid me in cash, I might have to track someone else down with a Venmo or a Paypal in order to pay you.

Again, you can find the handicap spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/153TNvSWrV3W4d0edE8g7ijwDfy4_e5DOBMxtQB8Yh4k/edit#gid=0. Since no rated rounds have been played in the pin positions on Peter's Creek, I'm going to start with 12 points per stroke, but I reserve the right to adjust that depending on how people shoot. You can see how that works in the second tab of that spreadsheet - I graph everyone's adjusted scores versus rating, and I change the Points Per Stroke. When the regression line gets to flat, that means that I have the Points Per Stroke right, so that on average having a higher or a lower rating isn't an advantage. Sometimes I exclude outliers - this week since there were only 16 people and Tyler and Kristin (who have ratings on the lower end) shot pretty great rounds, if I were using this week's data, I'd think about excluding them because not removing them would imply about 17 Points Per Stroke is appropriate. Sometimes people just shoot hot! So, probably doing 12 Points Per Stroke for PC this week. And if you look at that sheet, if your rating isn't in red or yellow, that's the rating you're going to have until the next ratings update.