New Courses Tab

The "Courses" tab at the top of the blog is now complete. On it, you will find a Google map showing the location of most of the courses in the league rotation. Currently it doesn't seem to work in IE... but it should work in Firefox, Chrome and on your iPhone.

If you CAN see the map locations (little blue golfer guys on the map), you can get a decent idea where we play in relation to where you live. Might be useful. Click the blue guy to get the name and address of the course.

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Below the map is the Course Handicap Calculator. This allows you to determine how many strokes you get on a specific course. Enter in your handicap index (found on our handicap tab), enter the slope of the tees you're playing, and press the calculate button. It's that simple. Play around with the different slopes on each course. Maybe you'd be better moving back a set of tees (more on this in a moment).

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After the Calculator, you'll find a list of courses in the rotation. Each course has the approved tee boxes for our league, with their slope and distance. Clicking on the name of the course takes you to the course page. There you can find the scorecard, a brief description, the address, which tournaments we've played there, average cost to play there by month (using real data after tax), and difficulty.

Difficulty is based off actual net scores during league play by league members. The higher the difficulty %, the harder the course. It's also traffic-light-color-coded to give you a visual.

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Let's look at Quail Hollow this Sunday.

On the Courses tab you'll see that you can play the white, blue or black tees. The one time we've played there everyone was on the white tees. It's one of the shortest tees we play... but still challenging with a 120 slope.

Using the handicap calculator, you might discover you get an extra stroke playing the blue tees. If you want to do so... go for it.  Dan likes playing the tips at most courses, so he's a great example of someone who might want to move back in order to give less strokes to the field. He also hits a 3-iron 230+ yards.

If you ever want to "tee it backward," just let us know.

Clicking on the Quail Hollow link... you'll see the difficulty rating is currently 18%. This is in relation to ALL other courses our league has ever played. It also has a median score to par of +1. So historically, you'll need to shoot under net 72 to be near the top of the leader board.

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So why do all this? We want all information to be found in one convenient spot. If you're curious about a scorecard, you no longer have to hunt for it on the web. In the off season you can find a course to play that is in your price range, and then link directly to their website to book tee times. Before a tournament you can get a sense of how difficult a course is. You can review your previous league rounds. And guys like me, Faz and Darren now have another view to crunch numbers.