Golf handicaps are an essential aspect of the game. But there’s a lot to learn about them, and at times they can get complicated. Whether you are a beginner golfer who is trying to get their first ...

The Long Game tracks the Handicap Index progress of four Golf Digest editors of different abilities throughout the 2024 golf season. Catch up on last month’s story. A month into this season-long ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Look, I’m not going to stand up here on a soapbox and profess that every golfer who ...

You can find your golf handicap by taking the average score of the best eight of your last 20 scores. Use this equation to calculate your handicap for any course: Course Handicap = [Handicap Index * ...

Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. My ...