Slope Spa

ROYAL BELGIAN GOLF FEDERATION
Course Rating Committee
Asbl F.R.B.G. –
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Royal Golf Club des Fagnes
USGA Course & Slope Rating
Brussels, 22/11/2007,
Dear President, Captain and Secretary,

The Course Rating Committee has approved the results of the USGA Course & Slope Rating as recently performed at your Club.
The results are to be found in the table on the next page.
I will send you, together with these data, the adjusted EGA Playing Handicap Tables.
Please publish these Tables in color at valves in your club.
I would like to draw your attention to the following:

• The general set-up of your course should be constant. If you cut the rough drastically or if you stop cutting the rough, it would have huge implications for the Course & Slope Rating.

Important Information :

• Shortening or lengthening the Course with 20m will change the Course Rating with 0,1.

• Shortening or lengthening the Course with 85m will change the Course Rating with 1,0.

• Advancing or moving back the tee-markers with more than 10 m relative to the Permanent Distance Marker would lead to a completely different Course & Slope Rating. Your competition would no longer be played under Qualifying Conditions!

• The same principle applies to lengthening or shortening the Total Course with more than 100m.

• Excessive watering of the fairways will influence the roll and thus the Effective Playing Length of your course.

• Narrowing the fairways with 9m on every hole increases the Course Rating with 0,3 and the Slope with 2.

• The speed of the Greens has a great influence on the Course & Slope Rating.
A wrong Course & Slope Rating has a great impact on the EGA Exact Handicap of your playing members, which would mean that a realistic comparison with other courses would be impossible.

ROYAL BELGIAN GOLF FEDERATION
Course Rating Committee
Asbl F.R.B.G. –
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Website : http://www.golfbelgium.be – E-mail : info@golfbelgium.be If major changes are to be made to your course, the Royal Belgian Golf Federation should be informed as soon as possible. It speaks for itself that you cannot adjust the official ratings yourself.
For any additional questions or remarks, please contact the Royal Belgian Golf Federation by email (j.verbiest@golfbelgium.be) or by telephone (02-672.23.89).
Kind regards,

Johan Verbiest
Sports Secretary, member of the Course Rating Committee
MEN MEN LADIES LADIES
HOLE ..PAR ........White...... Yellow .......Blue......... Red

IN ...........36........ 3027........ 2828 .......2675 .......2497
TOTAL ....72 ........5928 .......5598 ...... 5247........ 4955

CR ......................71.6........... 69.7........ 73.2....... 71.3

SLOPE ..............124.......... 121 .........125 ........122