How can I calculate my golf handicap?

Answer 1

Generally unless u become a member at a club a handicap is not true. All golf clubs have a handicapper which calculates 3 cards which they derive an average of and then they give u your handicap. I'm sure there are websites which supposedly work it out for u...but u wont be able to play in comps without a home course handicap. So theoretically.... u must play 3 rounds at the same club...then add all 3 rounds together then divide by 3 and minus the course par. Happy golfing. Just keep in mind it will only be a social handicap...not an accredited handicap.

Answer 2

I use: http://keepmygolfscore.com

It has pie charts, grpaghs, bar graphs, everything. It keeps all of your statistics and it is all for free!



Golf Handicap Calculation - Step 1
A minimum of five scores and a maximum of 20 is required to get started. For each score, the USGA Course Rating and Slope Rating for the courses played are also required. Using those figures, calculate the handicap differential for each round entered using this formula:

(Score - Course Rating) x 113 / Slope Rating

For example, let's say the score is 85, the course rating 72.2, the slope 131.

The formula would be (85 - 72.2) x 113 / 131.
This differential is calculated for each round entered.

Golf Handicap Calculation - Step 2
Figure out how many differentials are being used. Not every differential that results from Step 1 will be used in the next step. If only five rounds are entered, only the lowest differential will be used. If 20 rounds are entered, only the 10 lowest differentials are used. A chart at the bottom of this page shows how many differentials are used based on the number of rounds entered.

Golf Handicap Calculation - Step 3
Get an average of the differentials used by adding them together and dividing by the number used (i.e., if five differentials are used, add them up and divide by five).

Multiply the result by .96 (96-percent). Drop all the digits after the tenths (do not round off) and the result is handicap index.

Thankfully, you don't have to do the golf handicap calculation on your own. Your golf club's handicap committee will handle it for you. You can also use our free handicap index calculator - give it a try!

And here's that chart we promised:


Number of Differentials Used

Rounds Entered Differentials Used
5-6 1 lowest
7-8 2 lowest
9-10 3 lowest
11-12 4 lowest
13-14 5 lowest
15-16 6 lowest
17 7 lowest
18 8 lowest
19 9 lowest
20 10 lowest

Answer 3

A simple way that will get you pretty close to the actual handicap without all the hassle of calculating is to do this:
Find out the course rating
Record your last 20 scores (18 holes is best)
Throw out the worst 10 of those 20 scores
Take the average of the 10 scores that you kept
Subtract the course rating from the average of your best 10 scores
That number will closely represent your handicap

For example
If the best 10 out of my last 20 rounds are an average of 80 and the course rating is 69. Then my handicap is about 11.

Keep in mind that course rating and par are not the same. The same course from the longer tees will have a higher course rating but will likely have the same par.

Answer 4

In the United States (and elsewhere) each officially rated golf course is described by two numbers, the course rating and the slope rating. The rating of a particular course is a number generally between 67 and 77 that is used to measure the average "good score" by a scratch golfer on that course. The slope of a particular course is a ratio generally between 105 and 155 that describes the difficulty of a course for a bogey golfer (defined above). These two numbers are used to calculate a player's handicap differential, which adjusts a player's score in relation to par according to the slope and rating of the course.

For each officially posted round, the player's handicap differential is calculated according to the following formula:

Handicap differential = (gross score − course rating) × 113 / (slope rating).

The differential is rounded to the nearest tenth.

The handicap index is then calculated using the average of the best 10 differentials of the player's past 20 total rounds, times 0.96. Any digits in the handicap index after the tenths are truncated. If a golfer has at least 5 but fewer than 20 rounds posted, the index is calculated using from one to nine differentials according to a schedule. Updates to a golfer's index are calculated periodically according to schedules provided by state and regional golf associations.

The handicap index is used with the course's slope rating to determine the golfer's course handicap according to the following formula:

Course Handicap = Handicap index * Slope Rating / 113. The course rating is not used to determine a course handicap. The result is rounded to the nearest whole number.

The course handicap is the number of strokes to be deducted from the golfer's gross score to determine the net score.

Answer 5

Yahoo has a free web-site you can do this on. All you need to do is enter the course, rating, slope & your score and your handicap will be calculated for you, it will update with each new score you enter.
You can also do this at a cost on other web-sites, such as PGA.com.
Unless you were just wanting to know how to actually do the calculations.

Answer 6

There is one real simple way to do this. Not official but it will be very close.
Determine what your normal round usually is.
Let's say 90.
Simply subtract that number (90) from par (72) -answer = 18.
Your handicap is approx. 18.

Answer 7

dicksportinggoods.com and got to golf shop, it has a handicap tracker, or u may even try to make an excel spreadsheet to do it for you. Good Luck

Answer 8

yes you can buy adding up about ten or so score and divided by nine of 18

Answer 9

Are you using a wheelchair or cane?