In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most important things that every golfer needs to know. From handicap indexes to slope ...

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 recommended procedure for the allocation of stroke index values in the Rules of Handicapping under the World Handicap System (WHS™) has changed from the recommendations found in the previous USGA ...

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 R&A and USGA announced Wednesday that they have formed a joint committee in order to develop a single, world handicap system. Under the current system, more than 15 million golfers across 80 ...

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 ...

One of the core principles of the World Handicap System (WHS) is fairness. For golfers of all skill levels to compete equitably, handicaps must reflect a player’s demonstrated ability as accurately as ...

Now that we’ve got your attention, an important reminder: though your golf game might not get more accurate in 2024, your handicap will. On Jan. 1, the World Handicap System, which was established in ...

The holiday season is all about traditions, and this year the USGA is starting a new one. For the first time ever, the governing body of golf in America has released the data of more than 77 million ...

If there is one thing that has been the embodiment of Murphy’s law, it has been the process of implementing the World Handicap System. Anything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong at some point.

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