How do you work out your Golf handicap? This page will help you.

So what formula do you use? It's simple... almost!

But first what is a handicap.

A Golf handicap is a guide to the standard of your game, the lower the handicap, the better you are. A handicap also means a level playing field no matter who you are playing.

Now to work out your handicap.

First of all take your adjusted gross score and then subtract the golf course rating. This can be found on your scorecard, and is in decimal form. The result you get from this is called a differential.

Next divide the differential by the slope of the tees you played from and x by 113 this is called a adjusted differential.

Still going?

Then take the lowest 10 of your last 20 rounds of golf add them together and x by 96%, then divide by 10, drop everything after the tenths and this is your index score.

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