Your series bag tag moved from #29 to #31 based on your top 2 rated rounds from the last two completed series weeks.
Rating Phantom
Season Arc · Death Curse
2All-In league: Rating Phantom stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleBorn from the Salt Lake Accords' most feared clause: rating decline is literal death. The Phantom was the first soul lost to a triple-bogey cascade in the original treaty signing, and now it lingers at scoreboards, flickering between numbers.
Manifests as flickering tournament scorecard numbers that materialize into a hooded spectral figure clutching a quill. The more a player's rating drops, the more solid and menacing the Phantom becomes. It leaves trails of gold numerals like ectoplasm.
Announces rating changes at each posting, serves as the season's primary antagonist and walking reminder that every bad round is a judgment rendered by the Accords.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyYour series bag tag moved from #59 to #29 based on your top 2 rated rounds from the last two completed series weeks.
It started as a scorecard typo. Then the numbers refused to fade. The Phantom is what happens when the Salt Lake Accords got sick of your rating decline and made it permanent. It flickers between digits, waiting for you to drop a three-putt, and honestly? It's patient. It has nothing but time and a quill.
static hiss Something flickered on Tanner Shell's scorecard between holes — a 5 that refused to become a 6, or a 4 that wouldn't stay put. By the time it settled, Tag #59 had a name on it. The Rating Phantom doesn't haunt scoreboards, exactly. It just reminds you what happens to the digits when they start slipping.
First assignment for Tanner Shell: Tag #59, issued on a 922 that sits 23 points below his 945 PDGA rating. He went 2.2 strokes over a field averaging 56.8, and his 59.0 matched his personal average to the decimal — the scorecard arrived exactly on schedule while the rating went somewhere else entirely. The Rating Phantom doesn't have to haunt a number that files its own paperwork, and in 'Salt in Chains' the Accords apparently bind by arithmetic now. sighs in digital captivity