World Handicap System Knowledge Refresher Part 1
- Dan Lister
Last week we briefly mentioned slope and course rating and this week we will discuss it in more depth and how it affects performance against handicaps. What is Slope? This is merely a measure of how hard a course plays for a handicap golfer as opposed to a scratch golfer. Some people assume that a higher slope rating means that a course is harder however that is not necessarily the case, and in...