It’s harder to get a + PCC than a negative according to our Allied Association. Negatives can be reported as a fraction of a stroke and positives start at 1.
Neither of those are accurate. + PCCs lower the differential, and most players experiencing "conditions" of some kind (even a tournament on a really nice day) shoot higher scores. It's rarer for players to, en masse, shoot lower triggering a -1. PCCs are all whole numbers for 18 holes: -1, +1, +2, +3. There are three levels of positive PCCs, and only the one negative PCC.
They made a change and for whatever reason we have seen an 8x increase.
Please stop with the "8x increase" as long as it's based on a TINY number like "2 -> 16." If you could show 200 became 1600, then you're talking about an actual sample size. As I said earlier, if it was ONE different, it'd be a 16x increase, and two lower makes it an infinite increase.
Yes, 16/2 = 8, but it's sensationalist to call it an 8x increase with such tiny numbers. It's like claiming someone is a 0.400 hitter in MLB when they've had five at bats.