What Would I Shoot At Shinnecock Hills

World Famous Shinnecock Hills Golf Club

Nestled in the rolling dunes of Southampton, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is a testament to the timeless allure of links golf in America.

With a heritage stretching back to the origins of the USGA, this course is a crucible where golf’s fundamental challenges—wind, topology, and sand—are embraced in their purest form.

Imagine navigating the same fairways that have tested golf’s legends.

Our calculator uses your handicap to sketch a potential score, offering a hint of how you might fare on this hallowed ground, where the game is stripped back to its raw, majestic essence.

The Magic Behind the Calculator

Our calculator uses your Handicap Index to determine your Course Handicap, applying the formulas used by the USGA. But what does that all mean?

Handicap Index: This is your golfing fingerprint, an average of your best scores, adjusted for the difficulty of the courses you’ve played.

It’s a number that levels the playing field, allowing golfers of different abilities to compete fairly.

Course Handicap: This number adjusts your Handicap Index for the specific difficulty of a course, allowing you to determine the number of strokes you get on any given course.

For Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, with its Course Rating of 76.1 (the score a scratch golfer should shoot) and Slope Rating of 140 (how much harder the course is for bogey golfers than for scratch golfers), the Course Handicap gives us an idea of what you’d shoot there.

How It Works

Enter Your Handicap Index: Simply type in your current Handicap Index into our calculator.
The Prediction: Like a crystal ball, our calculator works its magic to reveal your Course Handicap and the score the USGA thinks you would shoot at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
We’re going to show you your score if you shoot your handicap (this only happens 15-20% of the time), your expected high and low scores and then adjust it 3 strokes for tournament play.

The Reality Check

Now, for a bit of fun — we all know that golf is unpredictable.

That’s why our calculator also gives you a “Reality Score.”

This score takes into account the jitters, the wind that just picked up, and, of course, “MacKenzie Bunkers” that could make or break your round.

It also assumes Major Championship conditions and that you are playing in the Major alongside the pros. So we add 7 strokes for tournament pressure.

We also bump up the course rating by 2 and the slope because the course will be made more difficult when hosting a Major golf tournament.

So go ahead, give our calculator a whirl, and see how you’d fare at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

Whether you’re gearing up for your next round, dreaming of playing a course like Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, or just looking for a bit of fun, our calculator is a great way to engage with the game we all love.