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**Mediconlinee** · 04-02-2008, 04:14 PM

Basically the whole thing. How you figure it, how it applies to your score and what it means exactly.

Basically it allows players with lesser talent to compete. I've got a 9 handicap and one of my buddies has a 19. I give him 10 strokes and we can gamble then.
They flight tournaments by handicap, A flight, B, C, D. Then people of relatively the same talent compete against each other and have a chance to win.
The way it's figured, put simply, is you take your best 10 of your last 20 rounds. Then you add them up and divide them by 10. However many strokes you are over par would be your handicap.

That's a simple explanation but there are a lot of other things that factor in. Difficulty of the course you play, what set of tees you play, course rating and course slope.

04-02-2008, 04:14 PM	#6
Mediconlinee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Basically the whole thing. How you figure it, how it applies to your score and what it means exactly. Basically it allows players with lesser talent to compete. I've got a 9 handicap and one of my buddies has a 19. I give him 10 strokes and we can gamble then. They flight tournaments by handicap, A flight, B, C, D. Then people of relatively the same talent compete against each other and have a chance to win. The way it's figured, put simply, is you take your best 10 of your last 20 rounds. Then you add them up and divide them by 10. However many strokes you are over par would be your handicap. That's a simple explanation but there are a lot of other things that factor in. Difficulty of the course you play, what set of tees you play, course rating and course slope.
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