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Edgewood Country Club was started as a golf and social club near the Pittsburgh steel mills. The golf course was designed to promote fair and enjoyable play with a comfortable walking experience, consistent with Ross's statement, "Golf should be a pleasure, not a penance." [2] Like many Western Pennsylvania courses, it has a rolling terrain ...
The slope rating of a golf course is a measure of its relative difficulty for a bogey golfer compared to a scratch golfer.It is used by handicapping systems to equalize the field by accounting for the likelihood that, when playing on more difficult courses, higher handicap players' scores will rise more quickly than their handicaps would otherwise predict.
The Golf Australia Handicap System is maintained on GOLF Link, which was a world-first computerized handicapping system developed by Golf Australia's predecessor, the Australian Golf Union (AGU) in the 1990s. When GOLF Link was first introduced it contained two key characteristics that set it apart from other world handicapping systems at the time:
The Western Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (WPAC) is a junior college conference in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) for many technical and community colleges in western Pennsylvania. And it is one of two conferences within the Region 20 of the NJCAA. Conference championships are held in most sports and individuals can ...
Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) was a component of some golf handicapping systems that were in use prior to the implementation of the World Handicap System in 2020. It was used to adjust recorded scores in order to more accurately calculate a player's handicap. Its purpose was to avoid one or more very high scores on individual holes inflating ...
Washington Golf (WA Golf) formerly Washington State Golf Association (WSGA) was established in 1922 and is an allied golf association of the United States Golf Association (USGA). WA Golf provides handicapping services for its members and member clubs in Washington and Northern Idaho and creates opportunities to play and develop their passion ...
^1 Mesa View Public Golf Course in Bagdad, Arizona was long considered the exception to Buhl farms as another United States public golf course that was free, however as of August 6th, 2022, Mesa View Public Golf Course in Bagdad Arizona is no longer free except for city residents who carry their own equipment while walking or who provide and use their own push cart.
The Pennsylvania Open Championship is the Pennsylvania state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers. It is organized by the Pennsylvania Golf Association. It has been played annually since 1912 (except for war years) at a variety of courses around the state.