Does entering nine-hole cards give you a better chance of reducing your handicap? Some would assume so, but I can tell you it didn't work for ...

Former Swindon, Hibernian and Crawley striker Harry McKirdy retires from professional football at the age of 29. Viral video shows how LA Rams coaches taunted Philadelphia Eagles fans after ...

I got called a sandbagger at my first Golf Digest outing. Here's my defense.

Raise your hand if this has happened to you. A narrow window opens in your schedule, so you sneak out to play 9 holes. You quite like it. You’re not alone. As golf has boomed in recent years, with ...

Handicaps in golf are the subject of public shame and personal aspiration. But they are also a crucial part of the game for many amateur players, an essential mechanism for allowing any two players of ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. Look, I’m not going to stand up here on a soapbox and profess that every golfer who ...

Are you a high handicap golfer looking to upgrade certain areas of your bag but are unsure as to which clubs you should choose? Well in this video, equipment tester Joe Ferguson runs through every ...

If you ask some golfers, “What’s your handicap?” be prepared to hear the humorous reply: “my swing” or “my lack of coordination.” The more accurate question is: “What is your handicap index?” So, what ...

You can find your golf handicap by taking the average score of the best eight of your last 20 scores. Use this equation to calculate your handicap for any course: Course Handicap = [Handicap Index * ...