Why don’t scorecards just give a multiplier for the score differential calc instead of slope?

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New to paying attention to my handicap so please let me know me if I’m missing something obvious, but if the calculation for score differential is:

(Score-course rating)*113/slope =handicap differential

Then why wouldn’t the scorecard give you the result for 113/slope?

For example, instead of showing 125 on a scorecard, just show .904 (113/125).

Having numbers relative to 1 also seems like a more intuitive way to understand course difficulty to me if you’re using it to judge how hard a course is.

Am I missing something?

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