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How does the difficulty rating thing work on the cards where u see numbers like (62.9/129) or something to that effect on the card? i am confused by this.
Thx for the Help

Course rating is what a scratch golfer should shoot.

Slope is what a bogey golfer would shoot.

I think thats right.

Thanks for the insight!

wrong, slope is not what a bogey golfer would shoot. it is just a scale. 0-155, the higher it is, the more difficult. But yes, slope is best on difficulty for a bogey golfer, but it isn't the score they would shoot.

sweet, that's what I thought it all meant as well.

(Bogey course rating - USGA course rating) x 5.381 = Slope rating

Which means that a slope of 130, for example, on a 72 course rating signifies a "bogey course rating" (what a bogey golfer would normally shoot) of 96. So a course that would be average difficulty for a scratch golfer would be above average difficulty for a bogey golfer.

So the slope is the relative difficulty for a bogey golfer compared to the difficulty for a scratch golfer. The higher the slope, the greater the difference in score will likely be between the scratch golfer and the bogey golfer.

Augusta National unofficially had a course rating of 76.2 and a slope rating of 148 in 1990 (I'd imagine both are higher these days). That means that the average bogey golfer would be expected to shoot a 103.7 there, nearly 14 strokes higher than his average round. Again, that would probably be more like 106-108 today with the added length, rough, and trees.

By the way, that answers a lot of questions from What would you shoot at Augusta National