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 ...

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

Additionally, given the nature of how a Handicap Index is calculated, a golfer should not expect one round to dramatically change their Handicap Index.

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.

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.

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 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 ...

More important, he helped introduce a handicap study that led to change in the USGA handicap formula. On Feb. 24, with his daughter and her family by his side, Dr. Scheid died at age 90 at The ...

Handicaps skew toward potential more than performance Like I said, I am a mediocre golfer. But my version of mediocre is reflected in a handicap formula that tends to be misunderstood.