Calculate your average score differential. Five is the minimum rounds you need to play before you can determine your handicap index. From those five score differentials, you take your lowest score.

Whether you have an official handicap index or maintain your own, you can apply this metric to any golf course to calculate your handicap for that course.

The World Handicap System was rolled out in 2020. Here's how to find your handicap index for any course, plus some famous celebrity handicaps.

To calculate your Handicap Index, your 8 best Score Differentials from your most recent 20 scores are averaged, and additional safeguards are included that: Prevent excessive upward movement within ...

Thanks to updates to the World Handicap System, your 9-hole score can be used to calculate what you likely would have shot over 18 holes. The post How are 9-hole scores counted toward your ...

Here we are, more than 40 years later, continuing to innovate and modernize the platform. Most avid golfers know what a Handicap Index® is — a single number that measures your playing ability.

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 WHS formula will be average-based, pulling from a golfer’s last 20 rounds (though all you need are three to establish a handicap) to calculate an index based on your best eight scores.

If, for instance, your low handicap index is 10.0 and your newly calculated number jumps to 14.0, or a 4 stroke increase, the soft cap will limit the increase to half of 1.

Whether you’re new to having a Handicap Index® or have seen some of the added flexibility with the 2024 changes, here's how to post with confidence.