Golf Monthly on MSN

How is golf's World Handicap System calculated?

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

Golf handicap breakdown: Why it exists, if you need it, and how to calculate yours

Most elite golfers have a positive handicap and give extra strokes to the course. Take Tiger Woods’ +9.4 handicap, for ...
National Club Golfer

Club committees need to stop using the World Handicap System as a shield

Lots of the issues golfers tell me they have with WHS could be easily resolved if clubs just used the powers at their ...
Golf Digest

What Golf Digest editors learned from their GHIN Handicap Rewinds—and the best tips that worked for them

The USGA is sending a little gift to all golfers once again this holiday season. To all golfers who have an official handicap index, that is. As has become a bit of tradition since the development of ...
Golf Channel

R&A, USGA developing world handicap system

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 ...