Why are Course and Slope Ratings Different for Men & Women?
So we’re still on the question, Why are USGA Course and Slope Ratings different for men and women, even from the same set of tees? The yardage is the same!” In the last blog entry we reviewed just one factor – yardage and the assumptions we start with regarding how far a male or female golfers hit a ball. But there’s a lot more when it comes to calculating a course’s ratings. So you can begin to see how much data needs to be collected, think about looking at each set of tees for both scratch and bogey golfers of each gender. Now let’s just start with one type – the female bogey golfer who we assume hits her tee shot 150 yards. The OGA’s Course Rating Team stops in the middle of the fairway at 150 and looks closely to see if any of the ten obstacle factors that need to be evaluated come into play. Then, without thinking of their own shot making, they proceed down the fairway up to another 130 yards (remember we assume the bogey female golfer can reach a 280—yard hole in two shots), and
