I've noticed an increase in 5 star ratings, also. If I'm traveling somewhere I like to use this site to decide which area courses to play. When people inflate the ratings of their favourite course, then it becomes a crapshoot. I think the ratings system has become a source of competition among some DG'ers, to rate their home course higher than everyone else's home course.
I suggest if you travel somewhere and you pick a course off this website that's been rated 5 stars, but from your experience it really didn't measure up to it, that you review it and make a note that the course rating appears to have been inflated by locals. At least the next person traveling to the area, can then have a more unbiased review of that particular course.
I suggest if you travel somewhere and you pick a course off this website that's been rated 5 stars, but from your experience it really didn't measure up to it, that you review it and make a note that the course rating appears to have been inflated by locals. At least the next person traveling to the area, can then have a more unbiased review of that particular course.