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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For this first time in history, Nigeria will officially unveil the World Handicap System (WHS) that will provide golfers in the country with a unified and more inclusive handicapping system. 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 ...

It’s not controversial to suggest the World Handicap System is divisive. There are countless positives and hundreds of thousands of golfers around the world are pleased it came into being in 2020. I ...

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 ...