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Old 06-18-2013, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by wmfitzgerald47@gmail.com View Post
Here is a good reference for tees. MISGA, the Maryland inter club senior golf association, is for golfers over 50. They runs many mixers and tournament through out the state. They set a yardage target for their events at 5900 yds which is closer to our whites. But if some players want a longer course they can play the blue tees and adjust their strokes or points using the slope rating for the course/tees. (HC Index times slope divided by 113 = handicap)
Sounds like a good organization. My post is to just clear up one nit picky thing from your post in case folks wish to compete from different tees.

You calculate your handicap for a given tee box using the slope rating as you describe (HC Index times slope divided by 113 = handicap),
BUT and this is the part folks miss....
If you are competing from different tees or men are competing against women, you then ADJUST your handicap using the COURSE rating.

The person playing the tee with the higher course rating gets more strokes as described by these cartoon characters USGA: Snoopy playing from different tees

PS. looks like MISGA references that in their appendix http://www.misga.org/Tournaments/guidelines.pdf

Last edited by ajbrown; 06-18-2013 at 02:06 PM. Reason: spelling