The 10 Toughest Golf Courses in RI by Slope Rating – 2024
What is the toughest golf course in Rhode Island in 2024?
GolfNewsRI looked at the slope ratings from the tips for each course.
“A simplistic explanation of how a Slope Rating is determined is to consider the method in which both the Course Rating and Bogey Rating are computed. When a Course Rating Committee visits a facility to conduct a rating, two distinct ratings are calculated. One rating is for scratch golfers; the second is computed for Bogey golfers. Within these two ratings, two main items determine the degree of difficulty of a course: yardage (length) and obstacles,” writes the USGA.
GolfNewsRI last did this in 2021, however, it we did it from the men’s tees and not from the “championship tees.”
Find the slope rating for the courses you play HERE
See the Toughest RI Golf Courses Below:
1. Newport National – 139
T2. Shelter Harbor – 135
Newport CC – 135
4. Rhode Island CC – 134
5. Point Judith – 133
T6. Triggs – 132
Quidnessett – 132
Fenner Hill – 132
Meadowbrook – 132
T10. Aquidneck Club – 131
Cranston CC – 131
Wannamoisett????
Not in the top 10. Their slope is 130
This list is a joke!!
Thanks for reading. The list is according to the USGA’s slope rating. Merry Christmas
Good list, not great but it was done by “slope rating”. I get it.
Wannamoisett should be on this list…who cares about the Slope-Great test from any tees. Newport CC from the tips on a windy day is brutal. Slope ratings don’t offer much.
Barrington on a non-Windy day is a long putt-putt. Triggs Memorial hosted many amateur tourneys in years past cuz it is a great test. RI is blessed to have many nice tracks, but also some just over the state lines are phenomenal.
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