Fourwood Golf League, Commissioner Operating Report.

Royal Birkdale Tournament, Week 2.

Second tournament. Eighteen finished cards. The same gross, stroke-allocation, net, and hole-by-hole evidence contract.

18 finishers324 hole scoresComplete field
18finished player-rounds
6players in tie-inclusive top third
0 / 6top-third players with displayed HCP 15+
Bryce4 · 69gross winner · net 73
paulhillen · 68net winner · gross 77
1 in 4.4net winner's round · 7-opportunity benchmark · per round 1 in 28
01 · field results

Complete field results.

All 18 finishers stay on one board. Sort by net finish, gross score, rank movement, or displayed handicap, then open any scorecard.

18 finisherscomplete field9 score fieldsone row per player6 playerstie-inclusive top third

Swipe table → Gross rank · Strokes · Net · 5-ft odds · Net rank · Move

PlayerBandDisplayed HCPGrossGross rankStrokesNet5-ft oddsNet rankMove

How the 5-ft + week context is estimated

The bold value is a benchmark across seven equivalent opportunities for this score or better: starting with the per-round estimate, it applies 1 − (1 − p)^7. The secondary line preserves the one-posted-round estimate.

This is a context sensitivity, not an official SGT probability. Equivalent opportunities are not official attempts and do not estimate actual practice benefit. SGT publishes one official round; player practice volume and practice-to-scoring transfer were not observed, so they are not modeled.

Per-round model: SGT displayed HCP used as a Handicap Index proxy; Royal Birkdale Golf Club Yellow rating/slope 71.5/135; one assumed five-foot-or-shorter concession per hole; expected miss exposure from Shot Scope's 0–6-foot make rates; inverse odds from the USGA Score Frequency/Probability Table. The scorecards do not contain putt distances, so the gimme effect cannot be reconstructed exactly.

SGT event and one-round setting · USGA probability table · Shot Scope make rates · SGT handicap method

01B · hole results

Average and median score by hole.

Each row keeps the Yellow-tee setup, official hole handicap, sample size, average, and median together. Filters change the player group, not the course data.

Entire field · gross scorecurrent viewn=18 player scores per holesample324player-hole rows
Score layer

Swipe table → Hole HCP · n · Average · Median

Yellow tees: 6,368 yards · 71.5 / 135Hole HCP: official SGT stroke index

01C · handicap fairness & hole difficulty

Did the strokes even it out — and which holes bit?

Two reads the field board can't show at a glance: whether higher displayed handicaps beat par by more on net, and the gross-versus-net difficulty of all 18 holes. Tap either chart to open a readable version with its full backing table.

Net result vs. displayed handicap

every player · lower = better · dashed line = played to handicap
Decision readEvery finisher is plotted by displayed handicap and net-to-par; any symmetric-extreme round remains visible and labeled, never dropped.

How to read: a dot's height is one round's net result versus a handicap target — variance-heavy, not a measure of skill or a fairness verdict. Read the overall shape (is the cloud tilted or flat?), not any single dot.

Which holes bit — ranked

hardest → easiest this week · bar = gross vs par · tick = net
Decision readAll 18 holes ranked hardest to easiest by field gross score to par; single-event averages, not the course's settled difficulty.

Hole difficulty by handicap band

net-to-par by band across all 18 holes · green beat par · rust over · signal, not verdict
Decision readEach of the four handicap bands laid across all 18 holes on net score to par, with the band's player count printed in every cell — single-event averages and a directional signal, not the course's settled difficulty.

How to read: green cells are holes a band beat on net, rust cells are holes it played over; deeper colour is a larger average gap. With four to six players per band, one hole swings a cell — read the row, not a single square.

01D · scoring character

What kind of rounds produced these scores?

Two more reads on the same 18 cards: the mix of birdies, pars, bogeys, and blow-ups behind each total, and how steady or streaky each round was hole to hole. Both describe this one event, not a player's settled game. Tap either chart for a readable version with its backing table.

Birdie+ · par · bogey · double+

each row sums to 18 holes
Decision readEvery player row reconciles birdie-or-better, par, bogey, and double-or-worse to 18 holes.

Hole-to-hole scoring swing

steadiest → streakiest · lower = steadier · within-round only
Decision readEvery finisher's hole-to-hole gross-to-par swing across all 18 holes; a single-event read of within-round steadiness, not settled consistency.

Source boundary. Tournament 63782 public SGT leaderboard and scorecards, validated as 18 completed rounds and 324 player-hole rows. External rules and research sources are used for context only.

One event is directional evidence. It cannot establish systemic bias, player intent, the exact causal effect of five-foot gimmies, or the platform's unexposed handicap precision.

Readable review surface

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