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 ...

Course Rating and hole handicap allocation is more of a science than ever before, but still involves some artistry and local ...

Most elite golfers have a positive handicap and give extra strokes to the course. Take Tiger Woods’ +9.4 handicap, for example. But why would any golfer willingly give strokes away, and what does the ...

To calculate a 9-hole Course Handicap, the first step is to divide the player’s Handicap Index by two, and round this value to the nearest tenth using traditional rounding methods. It is necessary to ...

Trailblazers, no matter what the field, lead the way to new frontiers because they use their energy, insight and passion in a way no one else dared try. Dr. Francis J. Scheid was such a golf innovator ...

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 ...

In retrospect, golf is one of the most complicated sports out there. However, after a keen understanding of the game, its simplicity reveals itself and many difficult terms turn out to be extremely ...

When asked for my ‘Handicap’, how should I answer? Have you ever been asked on the golf course: “what’s your handicap?” Responses vary. Some say: “a bad 8,” or “a happy 14,” or joke, “my whole game.” ...