The World Handicap System was rolled out in 2020. Here's how to find your handicap index for any course, plus some famous celebrity handicaps.

The World Handicap System was rolled out in 2020. Here's how to find your handicap index for any course, plus some famous celebrity handicaps.

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

Your Handicap Index is a portable number that represents your demonstrated golfing ability. It is based on your past scores relative to the difficulty of the course and tees played, as well as the ...

Mining the data gathered from the 100 million scores posted yearly around the world under the WHS, a model scoring formula for every handicap index for males and females has been developed.

Nearly two years after it was first unveiled, the World Handicap System (WHS) is about to take effect. Here's what you need to know.

Course rating. Slope rating. You’ll see both numbers posted on the scorecard of the course you’re playing. Here's what they actually mean.

Short courses and 9-hole rounds are wildly popular, but you can't post scores from them toward your handicap. That's about to change.

Instead, the handicap formula is like the New Jersey property equalization formula, in that it seeks to remedy the potential distortion in raw numbers.

The No. 1 handicap hole often is not the most difficult hole on a course. The No. 1 handicap hole is the hole where the higher handicap player is most likely to need a stroke for an equalizer.

The handicap system isn’t perfect, but what’s apparent is it gets more accurate and more useful the more golf it can assess. This is underscored by our season-long project in which three ...