The Rules of Handicapping include safeguards to ensure a player’s Handicap Index accurately reflects their demonstrated ability. However, under some circumstances it will be necessary for the Handicap ...

Sure, your golf game is good. But chances are it’s even better — or maybe worse — than you actually thought. We’ll let you be the judge. The USGA updated its handicap index statistics — compiling the ...

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 ...

When you think of golf hotbeds in the United States, places like Florida, California and Arizona come to mind given the sheer number of golf courses found in each state. Yet according to data the USGA ...

For years, that sentence defined not only my golf game, but also my golf life. While the shanks, slices, pushes and pulls came and went, that sentence remained. It’s not that I didn’t want a handicap ...

One of the core principles of the World Handicap System (WHS) is fairness. For golfers of all skill levels to compete ...

Florida is arguably the first state many people think of when asked about golf. Sunshine year-round, great temperatures and countless high-level courses. That’s why its position on this list is a bit ...

Joel Tadman had had enough of his woeful iron play and during his first lesson for over 10 years, discovered the fix for his card-wrecking problem ...