Rankings Guide

Most golf rankings judge courses. MyGolfHoles lets golfers choose holes, and those choices build the rankings live.

Nobody scores a hole out of 10 or writes a review. Each verified golfer simply chooses up to three holes that stand out at a course.

Played reflects the holes golfers chose after playing a course. Want to play reflects the holes golfers most want to experience.

They are never combined into one ranking.

For each course and each status — Played or Want to play:

percentage = golfers who chose the hole ÷ golfers who submitted holes for that course and status

For example, if 8 verified golfers submit Played holes for a course and 6 choose Hole 7, Hole 7 is shown at 75% · 6/8.

A golfer can choose up to three holes, so percentages across a course don’t need to add up to 100%.

A hole becomes eligible for ranking once at least two verified golfers have submitted choices for that course and status.

With only one golfer, the result is still shown with its count, but the percentage displays as — and it stays unranked, listed after ranked results.

From two golfers onwards, the normal percentage and ranking method applies.

Rankings are ordered by percentage, highest first. Where percentages are equal, the result based on more golfers is shown first. This affects display order only — holes with the same percentage still share the same rank, for example #1, #1, #3.

Filters change the ranking universe, not the underlying community percentage.

Location, Hole, Par and Reason decide which holes appear. Ranks are then recalculated within the filtered set, while each hole keeps its normal percentage and golfer count.

Location filters use the geographic level MyGolfHoles has configured for that country. In the United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are shown separately.

On a Golf Hole page, the Location rank uses the same Location geography as the filters. In the United Kingdom, that means England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland; elsewhere it normally means the country.

Reasons add context to the rankings. A golfer may choose a hole because of its Design, Challenge, Scenery or another quality. Filtering by a Reason shows holes that golfers have explicitly associated with it, while the underlying community percentage remains unchanged.

• Reasons apply to Played only.
• Reasons are optional — up to three per hole — so a missing Reason is never treated as a negative response.
• A Reason filter is an inclusion filter: it shows holes that at least one golfer associated with that Reason.
• Each hole keeps its normal percentage and golfer count.

Top 18 has one slot for each Hole number, 1 to 18.

• Only ranked holes (two or more golfers) can fill a slot.
• Each slot takes the strongest eligible hole with that number, using the normal ranking order.
• If no hole with that number is ranked yet, the slot shows that there isn’t enough community data.
• Played and Want to play each have their own Top 18.
• Choosing a Location builds the Top 18 from holes in that Location, so a newer Location may have some empty slots.

The number on each row is the Hole number, not a ranking position. The RANK #N chip always shows that hole’s overall worldwide MyGolfHoles rank, regardless of the Location being viewed. Filters determine which holes you see, but they do not change this overall rank. Top 18 is live and changes as golfers choose.

My 18 uses only your own current selections, with one slot for each Hole number, 1 to 18.

• If you’ve chosen several holes with the same number, MyGolfHoles uses the strongest ranked one from your choices.
• If none of them are ranked, the one you saved most recently is used.
• Numbers you haven’t chosen stay empty.
• Played and Want to play each have their own My 18.

RANK #N shows the hole’s overall worldwide MyGolfHoles rank for the current Played or Want to play view, where one exists. My 18 is a view of your choices — it doesn’t add anything to, or change, the community results.

For each course and status, every verified golfer has one current set of choices. Updating replaces the previous choices rather than counting twice. When a golfer plays a course they wanted to play, their Want to play holes for it stop counting.

A hole at a smaller course can rank above one at a world-famous course. A hole chosen by 36 of 60 golfers (60%) ranks above one chosen by 900 of 3,000 (30%).

Rankings use the plain percentage only. Nothing is weighted by course fame, editorial opinion, price, location or par.

Rankings reflect current MyGolfHoles community data — they are the community’s view, not an objective measure of quality.