Tracking Your Progress and Performance
RedGate believes that establishing a USGA handicap index is the best to track your progress and performance level; a handicap is used to quantify playing ability based on recent scores. As such, a handicap is continually adjusted as scores are posted, reflecting increases or decreases in player scoring. RedGate offers handicap tracking via GolfNet and we encourage all golfers to participate in the handicap program. Some amateur tournaments, for example, require that players maintain USGA handicaps to qualify. Handicaps managed by RedGate Golf Course are part of the Maryland Handicap Program network.
How to Establish Your Handicap at RedGate
The cost of a basic handicap at RedGate is $30.00. A handicap with membership in the RedGate Tournament Players Club (RTPC), our yearly tournament series, is $45.00. Score posting for your handicap is now available online! Visit GolfNet to learn more or contact us in the RedGate Pro Shop to establish your handicap.
A minimum of five scores (with a maximum of 20) at any sanctioned USGA course are used to calculate a handicap. The USGA course rating and slope rating for the course(s) played are also needed, so it is important to keep all scorecards (even bad rounds!). And remember, an accurate handicap is a reflection all rounds played at any course, not just those a Redgate.
The course rating is a value used for each set of tees at a golf course to simulate the number of strokes it would take for a scratch golfer (someone with a handicap of zero) to complete the course. The slope rating is an value given to approximate the difficulty of the course for a "bogey golfer." It can range from 55 (least difficult) to 155 (most difficult); a slope rating of 113 is considered average. Unlike the course rating, the slope rating does not correlate to strokes. The course rating and slope rating are used to determine a handicap by "leveling" the relative disparity between courses.
