If you have ever examined a scorecard or posted a score for handicap purposes, you have probably seen the terms Course Rating™ and Slope Rating™. While most golfers know they pertain to course ...

If you have ever examined a scorecard or posted a score for handicap purposes, you have probably seen the terms Course Rating™ and Slope Rating®. While most golfers know they pertain to course ...

If you’re one of the more than 3.2 million golfers in this country who keep a handicap, you know how simple the process is: You tally up your shots, post your score, and the World Handicap System (WHS ...

When I was commissioned to write this article, my immediate thought was, “Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Statistically, and working on averages, female golfers don’t hit it as far as male golfers do, ...

With the arrival of each new Top 100 ranking, the world’s premier course architects peek to see where their work stands — even as they’re skeptical about this business of calling something “the best.” ...

While Heritage Golf isn't the longest course, it is still plenty challenging. The course measures just over 6,100 yards from the tips, but with several tight fairways and plenty of trouble lurking, it ...

Gabriel Hjertstedt competes in the third round of the B.C. Open held on the Atunyote course at Turning Stone Resort in Vernon, New York, on July 22, 2006.Photo by: Chris Condon/PGA TOUR This is the ...

Briarmeade opened in the 1930s as a nine-hole layout designed by George Black. It was purchased by Republic Steel (and called it Gulf States Steel Golf Club) in 1944 and nine more holes were added in ...

Information was obtained from the Oregon Golf Association and could not be independently verified by the Portland Business Journal. In case of ties, courses are listed alphabetically. USGA RATING ...