There's nothing as much fun as a course with a high course rating and a low slope.
K
Can you name some?
Given that high and low are relative terms, I was specifically thinking of the course I play all the time. It is reasonably challenging for good golfers, without being impossible for the rest of of the golfing world.
It is, in fact, one of the few courses I have seen where it's easy to break 90, but relatively hard to break par. No low single-digit handicappers I know think it's an easy course. But when 20 handicappers from some local courses play it, they often play better than they are accustomed.
It's course rating from the back tees (6600 yards) is 72 (par 71) and is has a slope of only 120. I play tees @ 6300 where the rating is 70.8, and the slope is only 117.
I know that might not meet your definition of high course rating, but anything that's equal to or over par fits my definition.
The opposite are courses where the course rating from the reasonable-length tees for us shorter hitters is under par, but the slope is 130+.
I enjoyed Craig Schreiner's Prairie Highlands in Overland Park,KS, which has a set of tees @ 71.6 and 126. Compare that to Prairie Dunes whites @ 71.1 and 134. I haven't played PD, but walked it four days during the Women's Open, and as much as I loved it, I realize that I'd have a lot of unfun rounds there looking for golf balls in the bushes.
Perhaps I should have qualified that statement thusly: "Personally I seem to have more fun on courses where the course rating is at least up around par, but the slope is relatively low, say under 130."
Much higher course ratings are usually length related, and I can alway move up a set of tees. But slopes up around 140 and above usually mean too many forced carries, too much long grass and lost balls, and that's not my idea of a good time.
Your mileage may vary.
K