We don’t mean ‘How do you think you have been playing.’ We’re asking how you’ve actually been performing. There’s often a difference between feel and real. The good news is, your answer doesn’t have ...

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 ...

Among the highlights of the June 2024 presidential debate was a lively back and forth between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – about golf. Trump cited his golf skills as ...

Most elite golfers have a positive handicap and give extra strokes to the course. Take Tiger Woods’ +9.4 handicap, for example. But why would any golfer willingly give strokes away, and what does the ...

I just started playing and am not sure what a Handicap Index is. A Handicap Index® is a portable number that measures your demonstrated ability; for example, 15.2. The maximum Handicap Index is 54.0 ...

Thursday night’s presidential debate hosted by CNN featured a topic that no one could’ve predicted—golf handicaps. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump raised the issue when ...

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 ...

When you think of golf hotbeds in the United States, places like Florida, California and Arizona come to mind given the sheer number of golf courses found in each state. Yet according to data the USGA ...

One of the most burning questions to come out of the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle had absolutely nothing to do with politics. Rather, viewers have spent the past few hours ...

We’ve all played with someone who turns up on the first tee and responds to the question about their handicap with something along the lines of: “I’m not sure really, I don’t have an official index. I ...