You can find your golf handicap by taking the average score of the best eight of your last 20 scores. Use this equation to calculate your handicap for any course: Course Handicap = [Handicap Index ...

Once you play enough golf you can begin the process of measuring your “demonstrated ability calculated against the Slope Rating of a golf course of standard playing difficulty (that is, a course ...

Course rating. Slope rating. You’ll see both numbers posted on the scorecard of the course you’re playing. Here's what they actually mean.

The 1.0 Handicap Index player would still have a Course Handicap of 1, but the 18.0 Handicap Index player’s Course Handicap would increase from 18 to 21. In summary The Course Rating and Slope Rating ...

In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most ...

For context, the last major venue, the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, has a rating of 76.4 and slope of 140 from the back tees.) Top 100 Course Panelist: Member tees: 72.1/129 / Masters tees: 74.8/141.

New golf courses can change frequently during the first years after construction and must be re-rated within five years of the initial rating date. Thereafter, golf courses must be re-rated at ...

The handicap index is taken to one decimal point (example 14.5) and is used to convert to a “course handicap” for the particular course the golfer is about to play.

An additional term that isn’t well known is Bogey Rating – which is an indication of the difficulty of a golf course for the bogey player. In other words, a Bogey Rating of 95.5 means that a bogey ...