In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most ...

Our big survey shows general play rounds are at the heart of club golfer concerns about the World Handicap System ...

More golfers maintained handicap indexes, and they posted more scores than ever in the World Handicap System. Which states ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An annual handicap report from the USGA provides a data-driven snapshot of player performance and other trends in the game. The post Average U.S. handicaps, best states plus 7 other facts from 2025 ...

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 ...

FAR HILLS, N.J. -- The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced three major modifications to the USGA Handicap System, effective Jan. 1, 2008. The most significant revision clarifies the ...

The R&A and USGA announced Wednesday that they have formed a joint committee in order to develop a single, world handicap system. Under the current system, more than 15 million golfers across 80 ...