One of the most important factor at golf is to track everything you do when you play golf.
Why? Because every parameters are important at golf (success on drive, number of shots to be on the green, number of putts, etc)
I will post soon an article on which data are essential to be tracked but today let's talk about calculating and tracking your golf handicap.
How to calculate your golf handicap?
- Take the scores from the last five rounds (18 holes each) that you played.
- Look up the rating and slope for the course that you played for each of these scores. This information is usually printed on the scorecard, although you can also get the rating and slope by calling the course.
- Subtract the course rating from the score you earned on that course.
- Multiply that number by 113.
- Divide that number by the slope of the course. This number is the differential.
- Take the lowest of your five differentials and multiply it by 0.96, and you have your handicap.
Online Handicap Calculator
Okay, I know that you do not want to to this manually every time so let's go straight to the easy solution.
You will find on the internet many websites that will help you to calculate your handicap automatically.
Some of them will even help you to track your score which is very convenient.
To add your golf handicap online is very simple, you just need to login and input the following:
- Select Golf Club Name
- Enter where you started (Blacks, Yellows, Whites, reds)
- Enter the date
- Enter your score
The system will calculate your handicap automatically based on a USGA formula.
USGA Handicap Index Formula
The USGA Handicap Index Formula is based on the best handicap differentials in a player's scoring record. If a player's scoring record contains 20 or more scores, then the best 10 handicap differentials of the most recent 20 scores are used to calculate his USGA Handicap Index.
The percentage of scores used in a scoring record decreases from the maximum of the best 50 percent as the number of scores in the scoring record decreases. If the scoring record contains 9 or 10 scores, then only the best three scores (30 to 33 percent) in the scoring record will be used. Thus, the accuracy of a player's Handicap Index is directly proportional to the number of acceptable scores he has posted.
A USGA Handicap Index shall not be issued to a player who has returned fewer than five acceptable scores. The following procedure illustrates how authorized golf associations and golf clubs calculate a player's Handicap Index if the number of acceptable scores in the player's
record is less than 20.
Apply the handicap on your score
Once you know how they calculate the handicap, you can apply the following rule on your score once you finished playing.
Golfer Handicap | Maximum Number On Any Hole
9 or less | Double Bogey*
10 through 19 | 7
20 through 29 | 8
30 through 39 | 9
40 or more | 10
Source: USGA Handicap Formula and Thaigolfer.com
Keep Golfing!
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