Course Handicapping

It's the number that determines how many strokes - if any - you get on each hole. Therefore, it's the number that makes the system work, which ensures the ability of golfers of differing skill levels to compete against one another, and to do so fairly regardless of where they are playing.

A player's scores and the course ratings and slope ratings of courses played are used to calculate a "handicap index."

The handicap index is then compared to the slope rating of the course you are playing and the average slope of 113.

The calculation is this: Your Handicap Index multiplied by Slope Rating of Tees Played divided by 113.

For example: Your handicap index is 14.6 and you played a course with a slope of 127. The formula is: 14.6x127/113. The answer to this example is 16.4. Your course handicap is therefore 16 (round up or down).

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