If you have ever examined a scorecard or posted a score for handicap purposes, you have probably seen the terms Course Rating™ and Slope Rating®. While most golfers know they pertain to course ...

A U.S. Open course is tough by any measure. The measure the United States Golf Association uses is the course and slope rating system, which assigns two different numbers meaning two different things.

The list of highest slope rated golf courses is ranked by slope rating from the farthest tee based on information from the Wisconsin State Golf Association. Ties are broken by course rating. Courses ...

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but numbers can say plenty, too. For instance: 79.1 and 155. Those are the course and slope ratings, respectively, for the tournament tees at the Ocean ...

Q: The Golf Handicap and Information Network (GHIN) handicap system is based upon the individual course slope/rating of each course. It is my understanding that approximately 80 percent of each rating ...

Course Rating and hole handicap allocation is more of a science than ever before, but still involves some artistry and local ...