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2. How does a golf handicap work? Here's how to calculate your ...

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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.

3. Handicap (golf) - Wikipedia

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   The handicap index is not used directly for playing purposes, but used to calculate a course handicap according to the slope rating of the set of tees being used with an adjustment based on the difference between the course rating and par. The result is rounded to the nearest whole number.

4. Slope rating - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Equitable Stroke Control - Wikipedia

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   It was used to adjust recorded scores in order to more accurately calculate a player's handicap. Its purpose was to avoid one or more very high scores on individual holes inflating the handicap calculation. Equitable stroke control was a sliding scale system, based on the course (or playing) handicap of the golfer.

6. Competition Stableford Adjustment - Wikipedia

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   In golf, Competition Stableford Adjustment (CSA) is a method used to adjust a player's score at the end of a round before calculating any handicap adjustments. Its purpose is to compensate for occasions when scores deviate significantly from the expected average under normal conditions.

7. Talk:Handicap (golf) - Wikipedia

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   A "handicap index" is the number used to determine the "handicap" on a given course, from a given set of tees, for an individual. The USGA determines a handicap index (often bi-weekly). This index is constant (for the two-week period), but the actual handicap varies from course to course and one set of tees to another.

8. Par (golf scoring format) - Wikipedia

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   Par, or bogey, is a scoring system used mostly in amateur and club golf.It is a stroke play format played against the course, with match play scoring based on the number of strokes taken on each hole compared to a fixed score, [1] usually the par or bogey; in this context, bogey is meant in the traditional sense as the score a good player would expect on the hole, usually par but occasionally ...

9. Climbing 50 stairs a day may stave off heart disease - AOL

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   A new study found taking just 50 stairs a day can improve your physical health. Climbing 50 stairs a day may stave off heart disease — while living near a park or lake can keep you mentally well.