A round can score poorly and grade well. The grade reads the process.
KPG grades one round on the KR scale, so a round and a rating speak the same language, and it grades the process, not the scorecard. Built on strokes gained, it splits the result from the shot quality, reads the round through the golfer's archetype and the conditions it was played in, carries its confidence and data tier, and feeds the form trend. KTG does the same for a team competition. Neither ever overwrites the rating.
Same score. Different grade.
KPG grades one round on the KR scale, so a round and a rating speak the same language, and its defining property is that it grades the process, not the scorecard. The engine values each shot in strokes gained against the level-and-lie baseline, then splits the result from the process: the strokes actually gained read against the shot quality the strike and the proximity should have yielded. Two rounds, the same score, different grades.
A round of flushed approaches that finished close but did not convert grades on the ball-striking; a round of friendly bounces and holed long putts grades modestly with the luck surfaced. Putting is the loudest case, read against the quality of the stroke and the makeable-ness of the putts, so a golfer is neither credited for a heater nor punished for a cold day beyond what the stroke earned. A round can score poorly and grade well, because the grade reads the process, not the scorecard.
Illustrative engine read on the real KPG structure (per-shot strokes gained, the result-versus-process split, the putting-variance rule at the round level). Composite rounds, demonstration figures, all parameters v0.
Read through his archetype. Resolved against the field.
The engine grades the golfer through his four phases rolled up by his archetype weighting, so a bomber's round is read through his off-the-tee and a short-game scorer's through his around-the-green and putting, the same phase blend the rating uses. Then it resolves the round against what it was played on and in: the course difficulty, the setup, the wind, the tee-time wave, and the field.
A level-par round on a brutal setup in the tough wave is not scored as a poor one, because the field scored worse and the grade is weightless against that field. Every KPG carries its confidence and data tier, because a round graded from the scorecard is a different object from one graded from full shot tracking, and the KVision upgrade tightens it. Resolve the round against the course, the conditions, and the field, and carry the data tier honestly.
Illustrative engine read on the real KPG structure (phase-and-archetype-aware rollup, course-and-conditions resolution against the field, confidence and data tier with the KVision upgrade). Composite round, demonstration figures, parameters v0.
A round is evidence. The rating is the verdict.
KTG grades a team's single competition on the Team KR scale from the same strokes-gained foundation: result versus expectation, efficiency margin, control factors, and context stakes. And then the honesty check, which is the point: KPG and KTG feed the form trends, the post-round packet, and the evidence the Pipeline re-evaluates on, and a run of grades that diverges from the standing KR is the signal to re-evaluate.
The last several rounds are grading below the standing KR of 89. That divergence is the signal to re-evaluate, and the Pipeline weighs it, regressed and confidence-gated. It does not move the KR on its own.
A run of grades below the standing KR is a flag, not a verdict: the Pipeline weighs it, regressed and confidence-gated, and may move the rating over time. But KPG and KTG never overwrite the OVERALL KR or the Team KR on their own. A round grade speaks the same language as the rating and stays subordinate to it. A round is evidence and the rating is the verdict, and the grade never overwrites the number.
Illustrative engine read on the real KTG and honesty-check structure (Team KR-scale competition grade, the form trend feeding the Pipeline without overwriting the rating). Composite team and trend, demonstration figures, parameters v0.
A round grade reads process over result, resolves the course and the conditions, carries its confidence and data tier, and feeds the form trend, and it is the honest check on the standing number, never the replacement. It speaks the KR scale so a round and a rating can be compared directly, and it stays subordinate, because one round is evidence and the rating is the verdict.
The grade checks the rating. See what it feeds.
KPG and KTG grade the round and the competition in the rating's own currency, feed the form trend and the Pipeline, and hand the durable number its honesty check. They are the bridge between a single week and the standing read.