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 ...

Understanding how golf handicaps work is essential for fair play and for tracking your improvement. The World Handicap System™ (WHS), administered by Golf Canada, provides a unified and accurate way ...

Raise your hand if this has happened to you. A narrow window opens in your schedule, so you sneak out to play 9 holes. You quite like it. You’re not alone. As golf has boomed in recent years, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you submit a score, or will the competition count for handicap, if there are flooded bunkers? Is there is a limit to the ...

The R&A, in collaboration with the golfing associations of GB&I has launched a social media and e-newsletter education campaign to address concerns about handicap manipulation under the World Handicap ...

There's your score, and then there's your score for handicap purposes. Here's the difference and how to calculate them both ...

Thanks to updates to the World Handicap System, your 9-hole score can be used to calculate what you likely would have shot over 18 holes. The post How are 9-hole scores counted toward your Handicap ...