With Rory McIlroy's Masters success - and career Grand Slam - expected to inspire a surge in participation, golf bosses are warning humble hackers to avoid cheating on their handicaps. Millions of ...

In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most important things that every golfer needs to know. From handicap indexes to slope ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that we’ve got your attention, an important reminder: though your golf game might not get more accurate in 2024, your handicap will. On Jan. 1, the World Handicap System, which was established in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this video, Golf Monthly's Jezz Ellwood takes a detailed look at the world handicap system. He picks out the 8 most important ...

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 ...

For most golfers, the currency that measures our skill is a handicap. It is a measure not only of our scores, but the difficulty of where we play. Both factors are essential. Why don’t pros need ...

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 ...