I’m not sensationalizing anything.
Yes, you are by the very nature of going on and on about "8X" or "10X."
"WE ARE SEEING A 10X INCREASE IN PCCs!!!!"
That reads a bit differently than "we have 18 more PCCs than last year, a year in which we only saw a weirdly low number of 2."
It's a sample size thing. A small numbers thing. Maybe last year was the outlier, in that YOU only saw two. If you had seen even FIVE last year, you'd be down to a 4x increase. Which is still high, but 5 is still a bit low for last year.
And again, just think… As I've said several times now… you were only two fewer PCCs away from being able to scream about how you were seeing an INFINITELY LARGE INCREASE in PCCs!
Stop talking about it as a percentage increase or something. You're seeing an increase that's a little larger than the rest of the country. Or use more than just your PCCs — I highly doubt that for your whole club you're seeing even a 10x increase, and even on the small chance that you are… it's not being seen across GHIN.
You say this isn’t being seen across the country.
It's not being seen across the country. That's a fact.
Simple question that the governing body can’t or won’t answer. They are saying this is not out of the ordinary which is contrary to what you are stating and what others here have said.
Because they have more than two data points the year before and more than 20 this year. And they don't owe you an explanation. You're just a golfer.