Former Senior Director of United States Golf Association Handicap Department Dean Knuth, as the developer of the USGA's Course Rating and Slope Rating System, became known in golf circles as: The "Pope of Slope".
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"Golf Digest Contributing Editor Dean Knuth, is the Tiger Woods of number crunching (he invented the Slope System)" ---Golf Digest, March, 2008, page 64.

The odds of scoring better than your handicap in any given round are one in five, according to Dean Knuth, the former USGA handicapping official who devised the Slope rating system and whose Web site, popeofslope.com , is a fount of fun facts about handicaps. The chances of beating your handicap by three strokes? One round in 20. By eight strokes? One round in 1,138. For most of us, that's once in a lifetime. Wall Street Journal,
"The Genius of Handicapping", Nov 1, 2008, by John Paul Newport

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  2009 Edition: Dean's Scottish Golf Vacation Guide
Over 250 links
89 pages
How to get tee times
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Average Slope Rating
Beating Your Handicap by Nine Strokes
Competing from Different Tees
Dancing About Architecture
Making a Case for Net Double Bogey
Play From Multiple Tees
Scrambles
Vanity Handicaps
Was Madoff A Cheat at Golf, Too?
What's a Sandbagger?
What does "bonus for excellence" mean?
Why 96 percent?


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Dean/Chuck at R&A Autumn Meeting


Tiger wins 2008 Buick Invitational. Dean in the background.

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