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 ...

Golf’s new World Handicap System should be implemented in 2020, the governing bodies announced Tuesday. The system is designed to bring golf under a single set of rules worldwide, while encouraging as ...

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

Introduced in January 2020, the World Handicap System was based upon three key principles: Be welcoming, provide a consistent measure of ability, and remain modern. Four years later, with the first ...

The recommended procedure for the allocation of stroke index values in the Rules of Handicapping under the World Handicap System (WHS™) has changed from the recommendations found in the previous USGA ...

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 ...

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

The USGA does. As part of its year-end accounting, the governing body has tallied up the numbers from 2024 to produce its first report highlighting domestic golfer participation, drawing on ...

Towards the end of last year, the Kenya Golf Union informed clubs that as golfers prepare to get onto the World Handicap System, there would no longer be men or women tee boxes. Neither will there be ...

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 ...

In addition to revising the Rules of Golf for the upcoming year to stress simplicity, the USGA also released changes to their handicap system on Monday that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. The ...