The handicap system in golf is what makes ours such a universally enjoyable sport. Elite golfers can play with and compete ...

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

Now that we’ve got your attention, an important reminder: though your golf game might not get more accurate in 2024, your handicap will. On Jan. 1, the World Handicap System, which was established in ...

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 ...

At the start of the New Year, many golfers around the country may have noticed a slight change in their handicap as the new World Handicapping System (WHS) went into effect. The global initiative, ...

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 ...

The World Handicap System (WHS) is ready to be launched in January 2020 and will provide golfers with a unified and more inclusive handicapping system for the first time. Though many countries are ...

Nearly two years after it was first unveiled, the World Handicap System (WHS) is about to take effect. The U.S. is one of several countries that will adopt the WHS, which was crafted by the USGA and R ...

The world of golf has long been seen as an entity resistant to change. That image may be on the way out since 2019 greeted golfers with a major revamping to the rules. As if that wasn’t enough, ...

A year after modernizing the Rules of Golf, the game’s governing bodies will institute revisions that create a world-wide handicap index system Jan. 1 With collaboration that meshes six international ...

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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