There were six different handicap systems in use around the world before the United States Golf Association and R&A brought them all the under the wing of the World Handicap System in 2020. Each ...

The USGA and The R&A today announced the first update to the World Handicap System™ (WHS™) as part of an ongoing review of the Rules of Handicapping™ and Course Rating System™ with a continued ...

The World Handicap System (WHS) aims to bring six different handicap systems together into a single set of Rules for Handicapping, enabling golfers of different abilities to play and compete on a fair ...

Understanding how golf handicaps work is essential for fair play and for tracking your improvement. The World Handicap System™ (WHS), administered by Golf Canada, provides a unified and accurate way ...

These are divisive times in golf. But the game still has a unifying force. The handicapping system, designed to keep us all on a level playing field. In January, 2020, the USGA and the R&A expanded ...

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 ...

The Masters is over and the federal tax deadline has arrived. But it’s not all gloomy news on this Monday morning. As of today, golf season is fully and officially underway. With every region of the ...

Can you submit a score, or will the competition count for handicap, if there are flooded bunkers? Is there is a limit to the ...

Thanks to updates to the World Handicap System, your 9-hole score can be used to calculate what you likely would have shot over 18 holes. The post How are 9-hole scores counted toward your Handicap ...

There's your score, and then there's your score for handicap purposes. Here's the difference and how to calculate them both ...

It’s not controversial to suggest the World Handicap System is divisive. There are countless positives and hundreds of thousands of golfers around the world are pleased it came into being in 2020. I ...