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 ...

The Course Rating and Slope Rating is the evaluation of the playing difficulty of the course for the scratch player and the bogey player respectively under normal playing conditions. The ratings are ...

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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.