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Why is Course Rating Important?
A USGA Course Rating is important because without it, you cannot have a USGA Handicap. It is the basis for the handicap calculation.
Through the USGA Course Rating System, the AWGA evaluates every golf course in Arizona and mathematically establishes how those courses compare to one another for a scratch golfer by assigning a Course Rating, and how the difficulty of each applies to the scratch golfer and the bogey golfer by assigning a Slope Rating. This process enables us to evaluate each score you post on the basis of the individual golf course that you played, resulting in a USGA Handicap Index. Sounds pretty complicated, and it is.
The AWGA Course Rating Committee members devote themselves
to becoming experts in rating golf courses in accordance
with the USGA Course Rating System, to insure that Arizona’s
golf courses are rated accurately and fairly for all
women to play and post their scores to their USGA Handicap
scoring records.
