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Learning How To Calculate Handicap In
Golf!
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Learning how
to Calculate Handicap
in Golf can be very confusing for some.
Luckily for us, in most cases your local golf club will take on the
burden of Calculating your Golf
Handicap for you. However, it is always
nice to have an understanding of how the golf handicapping system works.
If
you are new to golf then i'm sure there will be loads of questions that
you need answers too, so once you have learned how to calculate your
handicap in golf, please have a look at my Golf Handicap Explained page! This will help to answer some
of the other burning questions you may have such as 'What is a Golf
Handicap?' or What does
a Golf Handicap Mean?'
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Standard Scratch & Slope Rating!
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As
i mentioned above, your local golf club committee will take on this
responsibility of Calculating your
Golf Handicap for you.
However, most
of them will require to you submit at least 5 score cards, fully
completed, with all the gross scores marked down, so they can give you
an initial golf handicap. If
these score cards are from different golf
courses, then you will also need to make a note of the following:
The
Standard Scratch Score of the Course - which is the measure of
the
playing ability of a golf course for a scratch golfer under normal
course and weather conditions.
The
Slope Rating of the
Course - which indicates how much harder the golf course plays
for the
average golfer, i.e. not a scratch golfer.
Both of these can
normally be found on
the golf score card, however if
not, then simply ask at the golf course concerned.
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Calculating Golf Handicaps!
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Once
you have submitted your 5 score cards, they will then take each card
and subtrack the appropriate standard
scratch score from the gross
score recorded. This will give them 5 new totals to work with.
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With these 5 new totals they will then multiply each one by 113, which
is the unniversal number used for official
US golf association
handicaps. Again, this will give them 5 new totals to work from.
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Once they have these new totals they will divide them by the slope
rating figure of the appropriate course, which will give them
what is
commonly referred to as the golf differential.
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Finally, to give you your official
golf handicap they will take the
lowest of the 5 xcores calculated and multiply this figure by 0.96 and
this will then be your official golf handicap.
Once
you have an official golfing handicap
it will be regularly monitored and
adjusted when you play in competitions and submit more golf score cards.
I
hope you have found this information useful and that it has given you
some idea with regards to: 'How to
calculate your golf handicap!'.
If
you are interested in a great piece of handicap
tracking software that
is fantastic value for money and will enable you to monitor every
aspect of your game for future reference and give you that extra mental
edge then i would recommend 'The Perfect Golf System'.
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