How come two people with the same course handicap are in different flights?
In order to divide the field into flights, each flight with as close to the same amount of players as the next, it’s often necessary to break make the divide at a place where the course handicaps are the same. Whenever this is done the indexes are ranked and the lower indexes go to the better flight while the higher indexes go to the lesser flight. So if, there are 52 participants and we need to break the field into 4 flights, there will be 13 players per flight. if the course handicaps don’t yield the proper break-off points, the indexes are used. In such a case if the break-off point lies at an index of 8.7, then even though those with 8.7 and those with 8.8 indexes have the same course handicaps, they will be placed in different flights. In the event that the break-off point lies at a place where two or more players have identical indexes, then people are placed randomly in either flight.
