There are approximately 45 volunteer committee members throughout the Met Area who assist the MGA staff representative in evaluating a course.
The backgrounds of course raters range from lawyers to engineers to teachers. How is a course rated? The rating procedure. A male scratch player is defined by the USGA as an amateur golfer who has reached the stroke play portion of the U.
Amateur Championship. On average, he hits his tee shot yards in the air with 25 yards of roll. His second shot travels yards in the air with 20 yards of roll. The male bogey golfer is defined as having a USGA handicap index of By definition, he can hit his tee shot yards in the air with 20 yards of roll.
His second shot travels yards in the air plus 20 yards of roll for a total distance of yards. Therefore, the bogey golfer can reach a yard hole in 2 shots and a scratch golfer can reach a yard hole in 2 shots.
Between these five factors, or a combination of them, the overall playing length of a golf course is either lengthened or shortened from the physical yardage of a golf course. In addition to the effective playing length of a course, there are 10 obstacles that are evaluated on each hole nine of the obstacles are physical and one psychological. Each obstacle is given a numerical value ranging from zero to 10 zero being non-existent, 10 being extreme.
These values are based off of the distances the obstacle is from the center of the landing zone or target. For example: assuming there are no effective playing length corrections, the team of course raters would first evaluate the landing area for the bogey golfer yards off the tee. In this area, the team would measure the width of the fairway, the distance from the center of the fairway to the nearest boundary line, trees, hazard line, and whether there are any bunkers nearby.
This evaluation process is repeated until the group reaches the green. This process is repeated on every hole and for every tee. Through this data, a scratch and bogey rating are achieved. We are then able to use these two numbers to calculate the slope number. What if our course is not in its typical playing condition the day it is rated? Therefore, courses are rated as if normal mid-season playing conditions existed i. For the majority of the golf courses in the Met Area, mid-season conditions with respect to fairways, length of rough, foliage, and speed of greens, exist between spring and fall.
Because the USGA requires all courses to be rated at least once every 10 years, it is important for the team of course raters to obtain accurate, mid-season course conditions. How often is a course rated? The USGA requires all authorized golf associations to periodically review the ratings of their courses and to revise them if necessary. The MGA is required to re-rate a golf course within a year period.
All newly constructed golf courses often change due to their maturity. Therefore, the MGA rates these courses times within the first 10 years to account for these changes. In Golf Tips. These two numbers might be a seemingly random arrangement of numbers on your scorecard, but in reality, they are two of the great equalizers in the game of golf. Not only do these numbers give golfers an idea of the difficulty between different tee boxes at their favorite course, they also allow players to compare the relative difficulties of a course to others that they have played.
This is what I would like to talk about today. This scorecard shows the course rating first number and slope rating second number for each set of tees at a course.
So what is a course rating anyways? The simple answer is, a course rating is a number that indicates what a scratch golfer a golfer that averages par for a round should shoot on this particular course. So, while the par for a particular course might be 72, a course rating of This indicates that the course is actually easier than an average course and allows the player to factor this difficulty into their handicap and their ego.
Also unlike course rating, slope values can range from 55 to with being the average. Course rating tells scratch golfers how difficult the golf course will be; slope rating tells bogey golfers how difficult it will be. The minimum slope rating is 55 and the maximum is slope does not relate specifically to strokes played as course rating does. The higher the slope, the more difficult the course is. When the slope rating system was first put into effect, the USGA set the slope for an "average" golf course at ; however, not many hole golf courses have slope ratings that low.
Some do, but the real-world average is higher than However, a slope of is still used in certain calculations within the handicap system. The male scratch golfer hits his tee shots an average of yards and can reach a yard hole in two shots. The female scratch golfer can hit her tee shots an average of yards and can reach a yard hole in two shots.
Course Rating - An evaluation of the overall difficulty of the golf course under normal course and weather conditions for the scratch golfer. This figure is equal to the average of the better half of a scratch golfers scores. Bogey Course Rating - An evaluation of the overall difficulty of the golf course under normal course and weather conditions for the bogey golfer. The bogey rating is equal to the average of the better half of a bogey golfers scores.
Slope Rating — Golf Canada's mark that indicates the measurement of the relative difficulty of a course for players who are not scratch golfers compared to the Course Rating. The lowest Slope rating is 55 and the highest is
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