Handicaps in golf are the subject of public shame and personal aspiration. But they are also a crucial part of the game for many amateur players, an essential mechanism for allowing any two players of ...

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A 12-handicap golfer attempts to play PGA National's Champion course from the pro tees. Can he break 100?

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 ...

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 ...

Scottie Scheffler recently revealed his golf handicap and it has shocked more than one fan. According to Scheffler’s home club authorities, he is a +7, and that’s the handicap he uses when playing ...