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 ...

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 ...

It would be fair to say the World Handicap System (WHS) has not been universally popular since its introduction to the UK in 2020. I have written quite a bit on my concerns over the system and ...

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 way golfers around the world will calculate their handicaps is set to be transformed by a new system developed by the USGA and The R&A, with key features designed to provide all golfers with a ...

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 ...

Golfers who “manipulate” handicaps through the use of general play scores within the World Handicap System (WHS) have been branded as “cheats” by The R&A, with golf clubs being encouraged to play ...

I’m not writing that to show off, I’m doing so to reveal something I think needs attention in the World Handicap System.

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 ...

Nach 45 Jahren als Head Pro in St Enodoc kritisiert Nick Williams das World Handicap System: Netto-61er-Runden seien früher undenkbar gewesen.