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 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 ...

This List ranks the most-difficult golf courses in the Nashville area by USGA slope and course rating. Slope rating is the USGA mark that indicates the measurement of the relative playing difficulty ...

What’s the toughest golf course you’ve played? Any answer you provide will likely be a mix of fact and opinion. In golf, as in life, after all, difficulty is often subjective. Some players are ...

The hardest golf courses in Tampa Bay includes 53 courses with slope ratings of 140 or higher, including 13 with a slope of 145 or more. The data refers specifically to the men's back tee for each ...

What’s the toughest golf hole in your state? We set out to answer that question the only way we know how – by building a scoring system, debating too many honorable mentions, and reliving a few ...

For a score to be acceptable for handicap purposes, it must be played on a set of tees on a golf course with a valid Course Rating and Slope Rating. All tees up to 6,000 yards on an 18-hole course ...