You can find your golf handicap by taking the average score of the best eight of your last 20 scores. Use this equation to calculate your handicap for any course: Course Handicap = [Handicap Index * ...

The World Handicap System, launched in January 2020, includes safeguards designed to protect the integrity of your Handicap Index®. One of them is the playing conditions calculation (PCC). What is it ...

In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most ...

Golf is hard, though some rounds come easier than others. Why the variance? Well, golf is fickle. But that’s not all. The skill and experience of the player matters. So does the difficulty of the ...

today for some much needed R&R, and, of course, golf. For the next ten days, we'll be thinking not of New Jersey property taxes and demographics, but of our most important personal statistic -- the ...

For the first time, you finally tamed that long par 4 with trees down the left side and one squarely in the middle of the fairway. And water is in play on the right. In addition, two bunkers protect ...

The USGA tracks the 9 and 18-hole scores of millions of golfers through their handicap system with about 3.2 million players in the United States currently posting their scores to maintain a Handicap ...

Nearly two years after it was first unveiled, the World Handicap System (WHS) is about to take effect. The U.S. is one of several countries that will adopt the WHS, which was crafted by the USGA and R ...

As golf’s popularity has surged since the COVID-19 pandemic—3.3 million people in the United States played on a course for the first time in 2022, according to the National Golf Foundation—so too has ...

Among the highlights of the June 2024 presidential debate was a lively back and forth between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – about golf. Trump cited his golf skills as ...