So, today we (Brookwater) changed the monthly medal format...
A Grade - Stroke off Blacks
B,C & Seniors Grade - Stableford off Golds...
I wasn't a fan at all (I'm in B), we play gold stab as a norm so 3/4 of the field now do that for monthly medal, don't see the point of difference. When we attempted to give feedback it was met from the GM with a wall and "stats" like we loose 40% of the field on MM day, the average time for a round on MM day is 5hrs 10mins (I challenged that, as we get around in under 4hrs... "oh not you guys" was the quick response).... I had a look at the last six months and there is a variance of only up to 12% difference in the field compared to the average for the other Saturdays of the month, and not always in the negative....
So, am I being a grumpy prick or are other clubs going this way also?