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 ...

R&A chief executive Mark Darbon said the governing body believes the World Handicap System is “really positive” for golf ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FAR HILLS, N.J. -- The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced three major modifications to the USGA Handicap System, effective Jan. 1, 2008. The most significant revision clarifies the ...

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 ...

An annual handicap report from the USGA provides a data-driven snapshot of player performance and other trends in the game.Getty Images How’d you play last year? Don’t give us your gut feeling. Supply ...

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 ...