Handicap
What is a good golf handicap?
A single-figure handicap — under ten — is a strong marker of a golfer's game, scratch (zero) is as good as the handicap system goes, and most club golfers play off a higher figure than that.
Scratch — a handicap of zero — is the reference point everything else is measured against: a scratch golfer is expected to play to the course rating on any given round. Single figures, anything below ten, mark a genuinely strong amateur game, the sort of player who contends in club knockouts and is watched closely in a four-ball. Mid-teens and twenties cover the bulk of everyday club golfers — a wide band, because handicap measures consistency as much as raw ability, and plenty of good ball-strikers carry a higher number than their best rounds suggest. There's no single figure that counts as "the" average, since it varies by club, region and how actively members play. What stays constant is how it's worked out — see how a golf handicap is calculated. Mark the number that matters with our golf gifts for men.
Written by Craig Fearn, The Golf Gift Co.
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