Philling The GAP: Course Rating

One of the added benefits of being a GAP Member Club is Course Rating. Course Rating is included at no additional cost to GAP Member Clubs.

Some key facts and figures about GAP and its course-rating process.

• On a given day, up to 12 volunteers will work together to complete the rating.
• GAP measures each course using state-of-the-art GPS technology prior to the rating to ensure accurate yardages.
• The USGA mandates courses get rated every 10 years, GAP performs ratings on a seven-year cycle.
• Courses can request a rating if there were recent changes to the course.
• GAP will complete 40 course ratings in 2024.
• GAP currently has 71 course-rating volunteers.

Beginning in 2020, course rating data is now used in Stroke Index recommendations. A course’s stroke index is only changed at the club request, so a new rating does not always mean a new stroke index.

For more information, email Course Rating Coordinator Cory Reighard at creighard@gapgolf.org or Director of Membership Growth Jackson Beers at jbeers@gapgolf.org.

GAP

Celebrating Amateur Golf since 1897, GAP, also known as the Golf Association of Philadelphia, is the oldest regional or state golf association in the United States. It serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. The organization’s 345 Member Clubs and 110,000 individual members are spread across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. The GAP’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf.