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It lists the rating/slope for the tee and the yardage for each hole, for each side of 9 holes and the total for 18 holes. Typically, however, one of the templates based on tee color listed below are used instead of the generic template.
The slope rating of a golf course is a measure of its relative difficulty for a bogey golfer compared to a scratch golfer.It is used by handicapping systems to equalize the field by accounting for the likelihood that, when playing on more difficult courses, higher handicap players' scores will rise more quickly than their handicaps would otherwise predict.
Devised by the USGA, the Slope Rating of a golf course describes the relative difficulty of a course for a bogey golfer compared to a scratch golfer. Slope Ratings are in the range 55 to 155, with a course of standard relative difficulty having a rating of 113; the higher the number, the more relatively difficult the course is.
Jason Day hits out of a green-side bunker on the 8th hole during the first round of the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. Pin placement green approaches.
It lists the rating/slope for the tee and the yardage for each hole, for each side of 9 holes and the total for 18 holes. Typically, however, one of the templates based on tee color listed below are used instead of the generic template.
A sign at The River Course at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wisconsin, indicating that the seventh hole being played is a par-four. In golf, par is the predetermined number of strokes that a proficient (scratch, or zero handicap) [1] golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the pars of each round).
The River Course is an 18-hole layout along a glacial river basin that features a 7,404 yards (6,770 m) of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. [3] The course has a rating of 76.2, and it has a slope rating of 151. [4]
Circling Raven Golf Club is an 18-hole championship golf course in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho near Worley. It was rated the third best public course in Idaho by Golf Digest in August 2015. [3] Owned and operated by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Circling Raven opened for play twenty-two years ago in the summer of 2003.