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The World Handicap System was rolled out in 2020. Here's how to find your handicap index for any course, plus some famous celebrity handicaps.
The Golf Australia Handicap System is maintained on GOLF Link, which was a world-first computerized handicapping system developed by Golf Australia's predecessor, the Australian Golf Union (AGU) in the 1990s. When GOLF Link was first introduced it contained two key characteristics that set it apart from other world handicapping systems at the time:
U.S. Girls' Junior – girls with a handicap index of 9.4 or less, established in 1949; And two for senior golfers: U.S. Senior Amateur – no gender restriction, players age 55 & older, handicap index of 7.4 or less, established in 1955; U.S. Senior Women's Amateur – women age 50 & older with a handicap index of 18.4 or less, established in 1962
A handicap race in horse racing is a race in which horses carry different weights, allocated by the handicapper. A better horse will carry a heavier weight, to give him or her a disadvantage when racing against slower horses. The handicapper's goal in assigning handicap weights is to enable all the horses to finish together (in a dead heat).
The GVB is required for entrance into a golfing association or to play on an official golfing association course [citation needed] although most clubs have their own admittance policy. Some clubs and courses (like in a lot of other countries) demand a handicap certificate or certifiable level of play (i.e. handicap 24) for guests.
The slope rating of a golf course is a measure of its relative difficulty for a bogey golfer compared to a scratch golfer.It is used by handicapping systems to equalize the field by accounting for the likelihood that, when playing on more difficult courses, higher handicap players' scores will rise more quickly than their handicaps would otherwise predict.
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Top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for Week 21 (the Open is Week 29). Top finishers in the previous season of selected golf tours: European Tour's Race to Dubai (30), PGA Tour's FedEx Cup (30), Japan Golf Tour (2), PGA Tour of Australasia (1), Sunshine Tour (1). Performance in the current year on selected golf tours for Week 25: