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 ...

It’s designed to be universal but the World Handicap System has always been implemented in slightly different ways depending ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As of Monday (April 15), every state in the U.S. is officially in "posting season" for handicap scores, so now is probably a good time to brush up your knowledge of how the relatively new (since 2020) ...

Your golf handicap isn’t just a number—it’s the key to fair competition and tracking your true playing ability. From understanding course and slope ratings to using GHIN for posting scores, knowing ...