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", November 1, 2008, by John Paul Newport


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This video from kusi.com is one of five live segments that KUSI's Kerry Lane did at San Diego Country Club on January 18 with Club President Dean Knuth to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the San Diego Open--the first professional tour event to be played in San Diego.

Click here to view this video on KUSI.

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Sports Legend Revealed: Does the course at Ko'olau Golf Club exceed the maximum slope rating?
Sandbagger's Hell at the World Am
Frank Hannigan on the Stimpmeter and Slope
How Tough Is Augusta National?
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
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Was Madoff A Cheat at Golf, Too?
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Dean after playing golf with the Blue Angels

 
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2011 Masters, Suzanne and Dean on TV

 
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Dean/Chuck at R&A Autumn Meeting

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