Handicap Averages

We calculate your handicap index based on the USGA handicap formula.  This requires several pieces of information from the course you are playing:

  • Course rating
  • Slope rating
  • Tees played

For most of the courses on My Golf Notes we have this information, and you can check by finding your course on The Course Pages.  If you can’t find your course, you can also request that we add a new course to our database.

If we don’t have the information for a particular course or tee we can still calculate a handicap.  We do this by calculating the averages of course rating and slope rating for a particular tee across every course in our database.  This number won’t be specific to the course you played, but still give you a rough idea of your handicap.

Below are the current averages we use for our calculations when needed.

 

Calculated Averages

Tee
# of Courses Included
Par
Course Rating
Bogey Rating
Slope Rating
Front 9 - Par
Front 9 - Course Rating
Front 9 - Slope Rating
Back 9 - Par
Back 9 - Course Rating
Back 9 - Slope Rating

Black

 303 71.63 72.41 96.69 131.29 35.86 36.18 130.64 35.86 36.19 131.53

Blue

 716 71.19 70.49 93.64 125.02 35.46 35.25 124.51 35.75 35.24 125.36

White

 795 70.95 68.69 91.05 120.76 34.94 34.38 120.48 35.19 34.36 120.83

Gold

 514 70.87 67.7 89.64 118.3 35.82 33.85 117.91 35 33.87 118.26

Silver

 88 71.2 66.92 88.82 118.21 36 33.5 117.6 35.67 33.42 117.43

Red

 372 69.95 65.03 85.44 110.54 35.42 32.6 110.18 35.91 32.46 110.52