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The Sport Series
The machinery behind the result: how a handicap makes unequal players comparable, how a draw is made fair, what a drug test actually establishes, and what ball-tracking technology measures as against what it is reported as measuring. Part of Under the Hood.
How Does a Handicap Make a Fair Contest?
A handicap estimates what you are capable of rather than what you typically do, which is why golf uses the best of your recent rounds and not the average, and why a consistently poor player gets no benefit from consistency. The structural defences against sandbagging, and the trade every rating system makes between reacting fast and staying stable.
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