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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...