How Do You Compute A Golf Handicap?
A golf handicap is calculated to reflect your optimal playing ability rather than your average round. As a result, players will only play better than their handicap about a quarter of the time. To determine your handicap, you need the scores from your last five rounds as well as the course rating and slope rating for the courses at which you played. Course rating and slope rating are determined by the U.S. Golf Association and represent how hard a particular golf course plays. This makes the handicap scoring system more equitable across all golf courses because not all golf courses have similar difficulty levels. Determine the course rating and the slope rating for the golf courses at which you have played your last five rounds of golf by using the USGA’s database. Subtract the course rating from your score at each course. For example, if you shot an 89 on a course that had a rating of 72, you would get 17. Repeat this for each of your five scores. Multiply the numbers you found in ste
