Posts by RemyM

Originally Posted by iacas Sponsors don't pick the pros - they sometimes meet 'em on the first tee. So the current rule keeps that system flowing - nobody's annoyed they got Pro X instead of Pro Y and they don't even...

I also forgot to mention Wintonbury Hills, a great municipal course in Bloomfield, CT that Pete Dye did in 2005 for a fee of $1. Golfweek rated it the #1 Municipal Course in New England and #11 in the...

Bulle Rock is a Pete Dye course that opened in 1998 and it is fantastic and fair. The LPGA Championship was played there for 5 years. http://www.bullerockgolf.com/bullero...p?s_id=1788586 Pound Ridge opened in 2008 and is difficult,...

I looked him up on GHIN.com. It says he is a +3.0 but hasn't posted a score in 2 years. Impressive round, nothing higher then a 4 on any hole.

If the course has no rating or slope then the score can't be posted for handicap purposes.

Originally Posted by iacas The red tee course rating is for women. That's what it sounds like to me too. If those tees don't have a rating for men then you can come up with one by using the chart...

Originally Posted by rudygu I wish I had gotten up earlier and seen more of McIlroy's round. I'm sure you will be able to see plenty of it tonight on the 7-10 pm ET "best of" show on ESPN.

Originally Posted by The Recreational Golfer I guess the raters missed that on my course, because the #1 is the first hole, and the #2 is the tenth. The raters or even the results of scorecard collection could...

Originally Posted by WUTiger This is a rethink of design philosophy from the early 1900s. At Normandie Park Golf Club (oldest public course west of the Mississippi), No. 1 HDCP is the first hole, a 446 yd. par 4. The...

They should be from the tees that are most played. There is also leeway that the number 1 handicap hole should not be at the start or finish of the front 9. It should fall between holes 3 and 7 so that the stroke will come into play...