Looking ahead to the new playing season, it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the key changes to the World Handicap System™ for 2024. There will be a change in the way we calculate Course Handicaps™ so that it will give golfers the number of strokes they need to play against Par (rather than the Course Rating™), making a golfer’s target score to ‘play to handicap’ more intuitive.

Currently, your Course Handicap™ is calculated by multiplying your Handicap Index® by the Slope Rating™ of the set of tees you are playing from, divided by 113. Read more