Why did Player A receive more ranking points than Player B even though they both finished with the same aggregate stroke score?
Answer Again, this situation is not applicable in the SPWAR. In the “other” ranking, they somehow deem that inconsistent scoring from round to round is worth more than consistent scoring round to round for two or more players finishing with the exact same final stroke scoring total in any included tournament. This is absurd to anyone with a golf IQ above plant life. In my 35 plus years of scratch amateur competition at all levels, I do not recall a single scratch tournament where anything other than the lowest aggregate total score in any stroke play competition was the objective and how one gets there may be interesting but is completely irrelevant. If inconsistent scoring is the objective, it’s called a stableford event. The concept of low rounds being identified is present in the USGA handicap system where the 10 lowest adjusted scores out of the last 20 are used to compute the handicap. This is based, in part, on the theory of “potential” but in a world amateur ranking, potential i
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