Work out your golf handicap

Working out your golf handicap, your handicap in golf is quite an important factor in golf - you may need to join a club and get them to recognise your normal score at their course. If that score is, say, 90, and the par for the course is 72, your handicap is the difference (90 - 72 = 18).

You can work out an unofficial handicap the same way.

In case you don’t know much about this: if a hole is short (say under 250yards), it’s called a par 3 (it should be completed within 3 shots by a professional). 250-500yds (roughly) = par 4; and anything bigger is a par 5. Adding all the 18 holes’ pars together (say 10 par 4s, 4 par 3s and 4 par 5s) gives you the par of the course (par 72 in my example).

As for a UK maximum, I don’t think you’re allowed to use a handicap higher than 36 in any legitimate way. If you’re playing a professional, with a 0 handicap, the most you can have deducted from each hole is 2 strokes (36 handicap).

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