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 ...

Our big survey shows general play rounds are at the heart of club golfer concerns about the World Handicap System ...

Do you support ditching the World Handicap System to go back to CONGU? This is what you told us in our huge survey ...

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 ...

There is so much discussion about how regularly amateurs should submit an official score towards their handicap index, but what if I never did it again?

When the World Handicap System (WHS™) was implemented in January 2020, three new safeguards designed to protect the integrity of your Handicap Index® were built into the system. Now that more golfers ...

The idea for a new, unified system was conceived by the USGA and The R&A and developed following an extensive review of systems administered by six existing handicapping authorities, going into effect ...

In retrospect, golf is one of the most complicated sports out there. However, after a keen understanding of the game, its simplicity reveals itself and many difficult terms turn out to be extremely ...