World Handicap System

The Ootacamund Gymkhana Club 2025-2026

Course Rating and Slope Rating

Certified By:
INDIAN GOLF UNION

Authorized Golf Association

Effective Rating Date

A Course Rating is the evaluation of the playing difficulty of a course for scratch golfers under normal course and weather condition expressed as strokes taken to one decimal place, and is based on yardage and other obstacles to the extent that they affect the sc ability of a scratch golfer. A Slope Rating evaluates the relative playing difficulty of a course for players who are not scratch golfers lowest Slope Rating is 55 and the highest is 155. A golf course of standard playing difficulty has a Slope Rating of 113. Course rati determined, by permission of the World Handicap System, in accordance with the Course Rating SystemTM for the purpose of provi uniform basis of which to issue a Handicap Index. Course Rating, Slope Rating®, and Handicap Index® are marks owned by the V Handicap System and may only be used in connection with the World Handicap SystemTM

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