Course rating

[Rlburnside]

Does a person who does the rating have to come to a course to get more tees rated.

Or as I’ve been told can you send the relevant authority the length of each holes to get a rating?

 

[rulie]

Does a person who does the rating have to come to a course to get more tees rated.

Or as I’ve been told can you send the relevant authority the length of each holes to get a rating?

In our part of the world, we can discuss with the Golf Association responsible for the ratings and get an answer without a visit. The new information provided to the rating authority could be more than pure distance, eg, it may include an elevation change, or a "forced lay-up".

 

[Rlburnside]

In our part of the world, we can discuss with the Golf Association responsible for the ratings and get an answer without a visit. The new information provided to the rating authority could be more than pure distance, eg, it may include an elevation change, or a "forced lay-up".

Ok thanks for your reply

 

[VVega]

We had the course rated after some changes and I’m told that we are waiting on adding another tee (within existing tee boxes) after which it is going to be re-rated again but purely as a paper-based exercise.

 

[wjemather]

Does a person who does the rating have to come to a course to get more tees rated.

Or as I’ve been told can you send the relevant authority the length of each holes to get a rating?

It depends on the length and the location of the new tees in relation to existing ones, but raters will often want to see the tees for themselves even if the rating itself is almost always just a paper exercise in doing replication from the nearest existing tees, adjusting for yardage differences.