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Originally Posted by charlie49
The rating is more important than the slope in comparing different tees. If people play from different tees the ratings of the tees must be considered. At Glenview, someone playing the Whites will give up three strokes to someone playing the Blues. If the person playing whites has a 15 handicap and the one from the blues has a 10 handicap, then the person from the whites gets 2 strokes instead of 5.
Charlie
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I agree with you. In fact I find that many folks do not know to use the course ratings as you describe when competitors are playing different tees. Here is a link for anyone interested:
http://www.usga.org/playing/handicap...rent_tees.html
In my case yesterday my buddy and I were playing the same tees and his handicap went from a 16 to a 17 because the slope rating was wrong. To be clear this is not a big deal to us as it is not a big money match, all losses are consumed afterwards
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