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 ...

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 ...

What will the new minimum length requirement be for a course and/or set of tees to be issued a Course Rating and Slope Rating? The World Handicap System has approved a low-end limit for courses to be ...

Educational campaign launched in Great Britain and Ireland as clubs are urged to call out offenders Golfers who “manipulate” handicaps through the use of general play scores within the World Handicap ...

Golf’s new World Handicap System, which is designed to bring the game of golf under a single set of Rules for handicapping and provide a more consistent measure of players’ ability between different ...

Golfers will be embracing a whole new handicap system when they return from the second lockdown. The much-anticipated introduction of The World Handicap System came just as the government announced ...

Although October signals that the end of the golf season is approaching for many golfers in the United States, there may still be plenty of opportunities to post scores toward your Handicap Index® ...