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Originally Posted by ajbrown
I am playing over at Lopez today and in preparation for our 4ball match I was checking handicaps. To me there is an issue looking at the Ashley/Torri 18 with the slope ratings. Two of us play the gold tees and the slope rating for the gold tees is 139. The problem with that is the slope for the black tees is 137!. I verified what the card says is also what the FSGA has.
Sanity check.... the slope of a gold tee box can NEVER be higher than the slope of the black tee box when the black tees have a higher course rating, right? I will call over, but found this interesting....
http://www.fsga.org/clubservices/clu...sp?crclid=1181
Their respective ratings are Black (72.9) and Gold (70.9). |
Finally got to play Lopez again yesterday and I revisited this question about
slope rating to see what the pro shop had learned. I was told by a friendly gentleman at the desk that that FSGA had confirmed the slope rating is correct (137 black versus 139 gold). He
tried to explain what the FSGA person said, e.g., slope rating is based on bogey golfer.....
We chatted for a bit, I explained that I understand how the course rating versus slope rating are determined but that it makes no sense
to me that tees that are longer (black) would have a
slope rating lower than shorter tees (gold).
This is one of those things that does NOT keep me up at night, but I am always interested in learning more about golf and rules and still do not see how this is right. When I get time I will craft an email to the FSGA.
In the meantime, anyone else ever see a
slope rating of a shorter tee box higher that the slope rating of the tees further back?
PS. Weather and course were awesome yesterday
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