Ravenwood (Blacks) 6642 yards – 72.1 Rating – 130 Slope – 87 Score Day 32; May 22nd, 2017 Sometimes, less is more. I can’t necessarily point to any one hole or even course characteristic of Ravenwood that makes me so fond of the course; it’s more the sustained quality of the holes, one after the […]
Ravenwood
Golf Nerd Alert – a bit on course rating and slope
For some time I’ve known that (speaking very generically) course rating is for scratch golfers and the slope is for bogey golfers. While I am, on my good days, typically the afore mentioned bogey golfer, I’ve always determined which tee’s to play based on the course rating and yardage. Most often this has worked for […]
Course Introduction – Ravenwood Golf Club
One of the most challenging parts of putting this trip together was selecting courses in places like New York. Depending on who’s numbers you go by, New York has somewhere between 800-1000 golf courses most of which are great, some of which are utterly mind blowing. So how do you choose? Sometimes, it is as […]