Course Rating for 9 holes?

This may sound like a dumb question but how do you figure out the course rating of a course for 9 holes. Do you just divide it by two???? I'd like to know so i can figure out my handicap. Any answers would be great

or, should i just times my score by two and say it was an 18 hole round?

Neither option is good, since you would just be making up a score, front nine and back nine are different. A better option if you only have time to play nine, is play the front one day and the back later and combine those two scores. Still not exactly legal, since the fatigue factor is not included. Physical fitness comes into play on the last few holes.

The European version of the handicap rules do this (not quoted, but from memory):

When regulating handicap over 9 holes (only valid for handicaps OVER 36), use your score for the front 9 and add 18 stableford points.

Problem is, of course, calculating the correct number of strokes allowed, and if the course have no seperate rating for the front and back nines, you can't do this 'correctly'.

But since most courses have the hole-handicaps ranked alternating between the front and back nines (the front nine being hcp 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 & 17, and the back nine being 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16 and 18), you can fairly assume that you will have half the strokes allowed on the full course rating (if that is an uneven number, then you're lucky ).

In Europe, this method should be legal down to - and including - handicap 37, but if it is only to get a 'yardstick', it should be relatively usable for any handicap.

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I'd just ask one of the staff at your course. I imagine they probably have that information somewhere.

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