If you have ever examined a scorecard or posted a score for handicap purposes, you have probably seen the terms Course Rating™ and Slope Rating®. While most golfers know they pertain to course ...

Some things in golf puzzle even the most avid, seasoned golfers. How course ratings and slopes—aka the difficulty of a course—are calculated would be up there. We’re not talking about the course ...

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Information on The List was obtained from the United States Golf Association's Course Rating and Slope Database. Data was compiled as of August 28, 2025. In case of ties, the toughest golf courses are ...

Golfweek's course raters rank the top 200 courses built in the United States since 1960. Many of them are in Georgia and South Carolina.

Golf courses across the country are rated for their difficulty by the U.S. Golf Association in different ways. The Phoenix Business Journal, as it has for the past few years, collected a pair of ...

What’s the toughest golf course you’ve played? Any answer you provide will likely be a mix of fact and opinion. In golf, as in life, after all, difficulty is often subjective. Some players are ...

Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2025 ranking of top residential golf courses in the United States. The hundreds of members of our ...