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 ...
There's your score, and then there's your score for handicap purposes. Here's the difference and how to calculate them both ...
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 Masters is over and the federal tax deadline has arrived. But it’s not all gloomy news on this Monday morning. As of today, golf season is fully and officially underway. With every region of the ...
The Rules of Handicapping include safeguards to ensure a player’s Handicap Index accurately reflects their demonstrated ability. However, under some circumstances it will be necessary for the Handicap ...
This essay (split into two parts) is a follow-up to a recent article that detailed my first time shooting an even par round. My first even-par round occurred in July of 2022, giving me a whole ...
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 ...