DSR confusion

[urbansloth]

Howdy all,

The course I regularly play at is Par 70, Scratch Rating 67. On the weekend, the highest score in the Par comp was +3 (there were 2 of them) yet somehow the DSR fell out of the wash to be 66 (equiv to +4).

So no one, not even the comp winners, played TO their handicap that day, let alone beat it.

How does that work...? Has anyone ever seen this situation at their course..?

[urbansloth]

I should add that I have tried (and probably failed) to understand the DSR math formulas, but one thing I thought i did take away was that the result had to lie within the bounds of the field - ie, it couldn't be lower than the best score, or higher than the worst. Is that assumption wrong..?

[Daves]

I should add that I have tried (and probably failed) to understand the DSR math formulas, but one thing I thought i did take away was that the result had to lie within the bounds of the field - ie, it couldn't be lower than the best score, or higher than the worst. Is that assumption wrong..?

That was true of the old CCR (which simply established the field's 12.5% score), but I have read nothing along those lines to do with the DSR.

http://www.golf.org.au/newsdisplay/76987

[Grumpy8]

Small fields will affect the dsr , I find it strange the dsr was lower than the winning score , was there a lot of +1 +2 scores and very few minus scores ?

[urbansloth]

Small fields will affect the dsr , I find it strange the dsr was lower than the winning score , was there a lot of +1 +2 scores and very few minus scores ?

A field of 20:
- Max +3, Min -6
- 9 players +1 or greater, 2 AS, 9 players -1 or lower
- Median AS, Mean -0.7

Not sure what's weirder - the +4 DSR, or that I remembered how to figure out the median.

[3Puttpete]

Howdy all,

The course I regularly play at is Par 70, Scratch Rating 67. On the weekend, the highest score in the Par comp was +3 (there were 2 of them) yet somehow the DSR fell out of the wash to be 66 (equiv to +4).

So no one, not even the comp winners, played TO their handicap that day, let alone beat it.

How does that work...? Has anyone ever seen this situation at their course..?

You can’t work out DSR because you don’t know what the previous million rounds were.