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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

There is so much discussion about how regularly amateurs should submit an official score towards their handicap index, but what if I never did it again?

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 ...

Golfers will be embracing a whole new handicap system when they return from the second lockdown. The much-anticipated introduction of The World Handicap System came just as the government announced ...

In retrospect, golf is one of the most complicated sports out there. However, after a keen understanding of the game, its simplicity reveals itself and many difficult terms turn out to be extremely ...

Educational campaign launched in Great Britain and Ireland as clubs are urged to call out offenders Golfers who “manipulate” handicaps through the use of general play scores within the World Handicap ...