What are the Course Rating and Slope Rating of Augusta National?
What are the Course Rating and Slope Rating of Augusta National?Answer: Nobody knows, including the membership at Augusta National Golf Club, because the club has never requested a USGA rating team visit the course to produce the ratings. Course Rating and Slope Rating are staples of the USGA Handicap System, and they also serve as a guide to how challenging a golf course plays. Augusta National is one of the most private clubs in the world, and has chosen to forego the USGA rating system. However, there was a secretive effort in 1990, organized by the magazine Golf Digest, to rate Augusta National, and a follow-up visit in 2009. In 1990, the magazine found a handful of USGA raters who were planning to attend
