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Just as not all golfers are created equal, not all golf courses are clones. Designs vary. Degree of difficulty fluctuates, too. What does that mean? For one thing, it means that a score of, say, 82 on ...

On the fifth anniversary of WHS, Sarah Barter, England Golf’s head of handicapping, discusses more key questions around the ...

Not all golf scores are created equally. That’s why, in 2020, the United States Golf Association adopted a handicap rule called Playing Condition Calculation (PCC). Depending on how golfers perform on ...

Your Course Handicap is the number of strokes you’ll receive (or give) on a specific golf course. For an 18-hole round, it's calculated as follows: Course Handicap = Handicap Index X (Slope Rating / ...

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

It’s easy to sit around with some beers at the 19th hole and hypothesize about who plays golf in America, how they score and how much they play. The National Golf Foundation has provided much of that ...

As the World Handicap System marks its 5th anniversary, Sarah Barter, England Golf’s handicap chief, told critics they need to work with it ...

Last week SI launched its new SI World Golf Rankings, a data-driven list powered by Golf Intelligence. The calculations include new metrics to rank the best players in the world across all tours. This ...