Golf courses, by the numbers
Scorecards, tee ratings, slope and stroke index for ten well-known courses. Every page has a leaderboard that fills in as golfers post rounds from the app.
The first ten
Ten well-known public and resort courses, with more on the way.
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How golf course difficulty is rated
Two numbers describe how hard a course plays. Course rating is the USGA’s indication of how difficult a course is for a scratch golfer under normal course and weather conditions. It is stated in strokes, so you can compare it with par. Slope rating is an indication of how much harder the course plays for golfers who are not scratch players than for scratch players, and 113 is the standard. In this directory the slopes on the cards run from 134 at Torrey Pines North to 155 at Bethpage Black and TPC Sawgrass (Stadium).
Every course page also shows the hole-by-hole stroke index (the Handicap row on the scorecard), which says where handicap strokes go. What stroke index means →
Where the numbers come from
Course ratings and slopes come from the USGA Course Rating and Slope Database, or from the course’s own published scorecard when the database isn’t available. Par, yardages and stroke index come from published scorecards, the course’s own where one exists.
Green fees are shown with the season they apply to. Where a course or its operator publishes a rate, we use it. Some resorts publish none, and a few figures on these pages come from third-party reports, which are estimates. Fees change, so confirm with the course before you book.
Round averages, score distributions and leaderboards come only from rounds golfers post from the SimplyStroke app. A course page shows an average score, a distribution and the hardest holes once at least 3 rounds are posted. Before that, it shows the number of rounds posted and no average.