Find out your handicap / index!
Your index is an average of your most recent best scores and provides a way to see how you compare to your friends, family and competitors.
Handicaps also level the playing field, allowing golfers to give or get strokes in competition versus other handicapped players.
No more guessing, as your index number will give you a certain number of handicap strokes per particular course and will be an accurate assessment of your scoring ability.
Establishing a handicap index is a necessity if you're interested in entering competitions and tournaments.
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SCGA History
The SCGA was founded July 27, 1899, joining five clubs in Southern California into an association. (Of those five, two remain today: Los Angeles Country Club and Redlands Country Club. Riverside Polo and Golf eventually became today's member, The Victoria Club.) Today, we are one of the largest regional associations in the country, with over 165,000 members in more than 1,250 course and affiliate member clubs.
Top 10 Questions About Course Rating
1. What is Slope?
Most golfers believe that the higher the slope number, the more difficult the golf course. This may or may not be true depending on the level of golfer you are. The Slope number for a golf course actually tells you how difficult the golf course is for a bogey player (17.5 - 22.4 handicap index for a male golfer) compared to a scratch player. The higher the slope number, the harder the course is for the bogey golfer relative to the difficulty of the course for the scratch golfer. Slope numbers can range anywhere between 55 and 155 with the average slope in the United States being 120.
The slope number is used to convert your Handicap Index into a Course Handicap. This allows the player to receive enough strokes from a particular set of tees, to play at an equal level of a scratch golfer from the same set of tees.
The Slope number is derived from the following mathematical formula:
(Bogey Rating - Course Rating) x 5.381 = Slope
When your course is rated, a scratch rating and bogey rating are both determined from each set of tees. (The scratch rating is the same as the course rating). From both the bogey rating and the scratch rating, we can then use the formula above to achieve our slope number.
Why do we need all of these numbers? The system was developed to allow a player to take his handicap index to almost any course in the world and be able to compete on an equal level with other golfers.
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