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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you support ditching the World Handicap System to go back to CONGU? This is what you told us in our huge survey ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last weekend, we got the special treat of watching the best golfers in the world go head-to-head in match-play competition in the Ryder Cup. Unlike the weekly stroke-play events in which only a ...