a good point but, in general, everyone is in the same situation and as long as performance is compared to the tees rather than par in discussion it seems less distorted.
having said that, there is no doubt that the psycological impact of coming forwards even 15yds on a hole is extremely significant to the average handicap golfer; much more so that the difference in SSS.
this is the one real difference between the other handicap systems and ours, the slope rating looks at the course for an 18 handicapper rather than the SSS rating which considers a scr golfers perception of the problems alone.
