Why have handicaps?

Posted May 16th, 2008 by admin

It’s difficult to think of any other sport which operates a handicap system. At amateur level, I suppose snooker would qualify (I’ll give you five blacks start). But can you imagine pro golfers, playing on any of the major tours, agreeing to play from different handicaps? Tiger could probably give the field a shot per [...]

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Golf’s Biggest Handicap

Posted July 20th, 2007 by admin

Golf is one of the few sports in which players of widely differing abilities can compete fairly with each other, by dint of a handicapping system. That is the theory. For the system to work fairly, a player’s handicap should reflect his best game. From my experience of organizing competitions five days each week, it [...]

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