Golf Handicaps

[Robbr25]

Do professional golfers have handicaps ?
Or
Because they are professional they have a 0 handicap ?

[thrash1294]

yes zero handicap.
also anyone who is a scratch goler has no handicap.

[Reel Deal]

Actually you can have a hdcp better than zero... Tiger's hdcp is probably around -3 or -4

[eejit101]

actually, its more like - 15.

The professional at my local course,w ith was a British Open championchip qualifying course, is -4, and tiger would cream him

[PShabi]

Your education system failed you miserably.

Eejit and Swa are cousins.

[Dodoubled]

Even if a professional golfer had a scratch handicap, a negative handicap or an 0.6 or a 1, none of it would matter. The handicap system is in place to allow average or novice golfers to compete on a balanced playing field with elite golfers. That's why at golf clubs, tournaments are generally broken down into a gross format (stroke-for-stroke) and a net format (stroke-plus-handicap), to make things fair.

You have to be a member of a golf club to establish a true handicap, which I think sucks. You also only need five rounds to establish an initial handicap, which I also think sucks. I think it used to be 10.

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