Tee ratings

Could someone please explain the different tee ratings? I see black,blue.red.etc with different yardage & ratings posted. Maybe this has to do with handicaps?? Thanks in advance.

Exactly, when you post your score you also need to enter the tees you played from. The back tees have a higher slope (more difficult) and higher rating (more difficult). Soooo, a score of 85 from the front tees will have a higher differential than from the back tees. The higher the differential which is machine calculated but basically your (acutal score - the rating of the course) the higher the handicapp.

So basically if I score say 100 on a 73 course my handicap would be 27 only on the tee I played from correct? But how would I compare that with someone who scores the same on the same course but different tee? In other words how would I rate who had a better game if we both have the same handicap? Sorry for all the questions but I can't seem to find these answers. Thanks again.

Slope and rating have to do with your handicap, and how many strokes you get on a given hole. It also has to do with Equitable Stroke Control (ESC), IIRC.

For example, your effective handicap may be higher on a tougher course, therefore how you apply ESC changes. I may be wrong, however, and ESC is applied based solely on your handicap.

Your official handicapp is determined after posting 20 scores. To keep it simple,

1) The course rating and slope (difficulty) is different for different tees. The slope is a number from lets say 113 to 134. The higher the number the more difficult the course. The rating for a par 72 can be anywhere from 68 to 74 for example.
2) So if you both post the same score from different tees, the person who plays from the back tees will have a lower handicapp than the person playing from the more foward tees.

For example the course par maybe 72, but from the white tees the rating (which is different from par) may be 70 and from the blue tees the rating may be 74. So if you both shot 100, your handicapp from the blues would be 26 and from the whites 30. (Actually it would be a percentage of this).

Anyway, I hope I clarified this. If anyone else can explain this more precisely go ahead.

I think I've got this. By shooting identical scores from the 2 different tees, the farther tee has a higher difficulty rating & therefore lower handicap. Actually makes sense once I grasped the concept. Thank you both for your resonse.