Golf Handicaps

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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.

Here's some more information: