World handicap system

September 22nd, 2025

Australian rules of handicapping updated with the launch of Golf Australia’s new digital platform

Claire Bates, Golf Australia, Golf Australia CONNECT, handicapping, James Sutherland, Simon Magdulski, World Handicap System

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January 1st, 2024

Three things you need to know about the new changes to the World Handicap System for 2024

Here are three things to remember as you begin posting scores in 2024:

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November 9th, 2023

Changes ahead for the World Handicap System in 2024 will make your handicap more reliable and timely

Starting in January 2024, the WHS will use an “expected score” formula to take nine-hole scores and adjust them to 18-hole score differentials.

December 3rd, 2020

A score to settle

Their popularity can’t be questioned, but are ambrose events as fair as they could be?

February 7th, 2020

How Many Strokes Am I Getting Now?

Welcome to the new World Handicap System.

January 3rd, 2020

EVERYTHING you need to know about the new World Handicap System

November 5th, 2019

World Handicap System ready to roll out in January

Though many countries, including Australia, are planning to adopt the new system in January, the system will go live in other parts of the world throughout the year to accommodate different implementation plans and variations in the golfing calendar.

May 1st, 2019

New World Handicap System on track for implementation in 2020

Golf’s new World Handicap System is on course for its implementation date in 2020, with a new campaign released today reminding golfers of the eight key features.

April 27th, 2018

Handicaps: Spanning The Globe

Coming soon: a handicap you can use anywhere.

March 16th, 2018

Your handicapping questions answered

Australia’s head of handicapping Simon Magdulski answers the questions our readers commonly ask on why a GA Handicap is determined by averaging the best 8 of the recent 20 rounds multiplied by 0.93

Australia to adopt World Handicap System

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Wyndham Championship - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
T1	Michael Brennan	-16	F	3
T1	Beau Hossler	-16	F	3
3	Tom Kim	-15	F	3
T4	Alex Smalley	-14	F	3
T4	Alex Noren	-14	F	3
6	Davis Thompson	-13	F	3
7	Kevin Yu	-12	F	3
T8	Nico Echavarria	-11	F	3
T8	Harry Hall	-11	F	3
T8	Jordan Smith	-11	F	3
T11	Erik van Rooyen	-10	F	3
T11	Hideki Matsuyama	-10	F	3
T11	David Skinns	-10	F	3
T11	Sahith Theegala	-10	F	3
T15	Matt Wallace	-9	F	3
T15	Jackson Koivun	-9	F	3
T15	Kevin Roy	-9	F	3
T15	Zach Bauchou	-9	F	3
T15	Billy Horschel	-9	F	3
T15	Ben James	-9	F	3
T21	Ben Kohles	-8	F	3
T21	Webb Simpson	-8	F	3
T21	Jordan Spieth	-8	F	3
T21	Justin Thomas	-8	F	3
T21	Sungjae Im	-8	F	3
T21	Joel Dahmen	-8	F	3
T21	Chandler Phillips	-8	F	3
T21	Tyler Collet	-8	F	3
T21	Jackson Suber	-8	F	3
T21	Denny McCarthy	-8	F	3
T21	Rico Hoey	-8	F	3
T32	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-7	F	3
T32	Andrew Novak	-7	F	3
T32	Austin Eckroat	-7	F	3
T32	Brandt Snedeker	-7	F	3
T32	Rafael Campos	-7	F	3
T32	Hayden Springer	-7	F	3
T32	Eric Cole	-7	F	3
T32	Doug Ghim	-7	F	3
T40	Austin Smotherman	-6	F	3
T40	John Parry	-6	F	3
T40	Justin Lower	-6	F	3
T40	Thorbjørn Olesen	-6	F	3
T40	Patrick Fishburn	-6	F	3
T40	Bud Cauley	-6	F	3
T40	Kevin Streelman	-6	F	3
T40	Michael Kim	-6	F	3
T40	Joe Highsmith	-6	F	3
T40	Chad Ramey	-6	F	3
T50	Patton Kizzire	-5	F	3
T50	Andrew Putnam	-5	F	3
T50	Kristoffer Ventura	-5	F	3
T50	Aaron Rai	-5	F	3
T50	Neal Shipley	-5	F	3
T50	Lee Hodges	-5	F	3
T50	Ricky Castillo	-5	F	3
T50	Tom Hoge	-5	F	3
T58	Davis Chatfield	-4	F	3
T58	Keegan Bradley	-4	F	3
T58	Tony Finau	-4	F	3
T58	Matt McCarty	-4	F	3
T58	Trace Crowe	-4	F	3
T58	Danny Walker	-4	F	3
T58	Matti Schmid	-4	F	3
T65	Kensei Hirata	-3	F	3
T65	Keith Mitchell	-3	F	3
T65	Chris Kirk	-3	F	3
T65	Alex Fitzpatrick	-3	F	3
T65	Mackenzie Hughes	-3	F	3
T65	Maverick McNealy	-3	F	3
T65	Brooks Koepka	-3	F	3
T72	Kihei Akina	-2	F	3
T72	Pontus Nyholm	-2	F	3
T72	Rasmus Højgaard	-2	F	3
T72	Adrien Saddier	-2	F	3
T76	Cam Young	-1	F	3
T76	Nick Taylor	-1	F	3
T76	Taylor Pendrith	-1	F	3
T76	Max Greyserman	-1	F	3
80	Marco Penge	E	F	3
81	Peter Malnati	+2	F	3
CUT	Brian Harman	-2	F	2
CUT	Ryan Gerard	-2	F	2
CUT	Karl Vilips	-2	F	2
CUT	Ben Griffin	-2	F	2
CUT	C.T. Pan	-2	F	2
CUT	Emiliano Grillo	-2	F	2
CUT	Mac Meissner	-2	F	2
CUT	Brian Campbell	-2	F	2
CUT	Zac Blair	-2	F	2
CUT	Brice Garnett	-2	F	2
CUT	Johnny Keefer	-1	F	2
CUT	A.J. Ewart	-1	F	2
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-1	F	2
CUT	J.T. Poston	-1	F	2
CUT	Marcelo Rozo	-1	F	2
CUT	Luke Clanton	-1	F	2
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	E	F	2
CUT	Patrick Rodgers	E	F	2
CUT	Lucas Glover	E	F	2
CUT	Max McGreevy	E	F	2
CUT	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	E	F	2
CUT	Jeffrey Kang	E	F	2
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	E	F	2
CUT	Sam Stevens	E	F	2
CUT	Harris English	E	F	2
CUT	Stefano Mazzoli	E	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	E	F	2
CUT	Ben Silverman	E	F	2
CUT	Gordon Sargent	E	F	2
CUT	Zecheng Dou	E	F	2
CUT	William Mouw	+1	F	2
CUT	Matt Kuchar	+1	F	2
CUT	Mark Hubbard	+1	F	2
CUT	Ryo Hisatsune	+1	F	2
CUT	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	+1	F	2
CUT	William McGirt	+2	F	2
CUT	Seamus Power	+2	F	2
CUT	Hank Lebioda	+2	F	2
CUT	Camilo Villegas	+2	F	2
CUT	Steven Fisk	+2	F	2
CUT	John VanDerLaan	+2	F	2
CUT	Troy Merritt	+3	F	2
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	+3	F	2
CUT	Sepp Straka	+3	F	2
CUT	Christo Lamprecht	+3	F	2
CUT	Jimmy Stanger	+3	F	2
CUT	Adam Svensson	+3	F	2
CUT	Jason Day	+4	F	2
CUT	Blades Brown	+4	F	2
CUT	Keenan Huskey	+4	F	2
CUT	Dylan Wu	+5	F	2
CUT	Davis Riley	+5	F	2
CUT	Haotong Li	+5	F	2
CUT	Chandler Blanchet	+5	F	2
CUT	Jesper Svensson	+5	F	2
CUT	Aldrich Potgieter	+8	F	2
CUT	David Lipsky	+8	F	2
CUT	Lorenzo Rodriguez	+9	F	2
CUT	Cooper Hrabak	+9	F	2
CUT	Cam Davis	+9	F	2
CUT	Vince Whaley	+11	F	2
CUT	Luke List	+11	F	2
CUT	Nick Dunlap	+13	F	2
WD	Pi Coody	-	-
WD	Adam Schenk	-	-
DQ	Aaron Wise	-	-

New York 2026 Leaderboard

PlayersTeams

Pos	Player	Tot	Rnd
1	Joaquin Niemann	-14	4
2	Harold Varner III	-12	4
3	Lee Westwood	-10	4
4	Tom McKibbin	-7	4
5	Sergio Garcia	-6	4
T6	Byeong Hun An	-5	4
T6	Thomas Pieters	-5	4
T6	Richard Bland	-5	4
9	Scott Vincent	-4	4
T10	Lucas Herbert	-3	4
T10	Paul Casey	-3	4
T10	Younghan Song	-3	4
13	Ian Poulter	-1	4
T14	Caleb Surratt	E	4
T14	Yosuke Asaji	E	4
T14	Dustin Johnson	E	4
T14	Charl Schwartzel	E	4
T14	Abraham Ancer	E	4
T19	Richard T. Lee	+1	4
T19	Branden Grace	+1	4
T19	Danny Lee	+1	4
T19	Anirban Lahiri	+1	4
T23	Victor Perez	+2	4
T23	David Puig	+2	4
T23	Peter Uihlein	+2	4
T23	Björn Hellgren	+2	4
T23	Laurie Canter	+2	4
T23	Travis Smyth	+2	4
T23	Charles Howell III	+2	4
T23	Marc Leishman	+2	4
T23	Thomas Detry	+2	4
T32	Brendan Steele	+3	4
T32	Jon Rahm	+3	4
T34	Michael La Sasso	+4	4
T34	Talor Gooch	+4	4
T36	Josele Ballester	+5	4
T36	Tyrrell Hatton	+5	4
T36	Carlos Ortiz	+5	4
T39	Martin Vorster	+6	4
T39	Cameron Smith	+6	4
41	Bryson DeChambeau	+7	4
T42	Sebastian Muñoz	+8	4
T42	Dean Burmester	+8	4
T42	Miguel Tabuena	+8	4
T45	Matthew Wolff	+10	4
T45	Adrian Meronk	+10	4
T45	Do-Yeob Mun	+10	4
T45	Anthony Kim	+10	4
T45	Minkyu Kim	+10	4
T50	Bubba Watson	+11	4
T50	Martin Kaymer	+11	4
T50	Cameron Tringale	+11	4
T53	Jason Kokrak	+13	4
T53	Ben Campbell	+13	4
55	Sam Horsfield	+14	4
56	Graeme McDowell	+18	4
57	Luis Masaveu	+21	4

World handicap system

Australian rules of handicapping updated with the launch of Golf Australia’s new digital platform

Three things you need to know about the new changes to the World Handicap System for 2024

Changes ahead for the World Handicap System in 2024 will make your handicap more reliable and timely

A score to settle

How Many Strokes Am I Getting Now?

EVERYTHING you need to know about the new World Handicap System

World Handicap System ready to roll out in January

New World Handicap System on track for implementation in 2020

Handicaps: Spanning The Globe

Your handicapping questions answered

Australia to adopt World Handicap System

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Pos	Team	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	TORQUE GC	-1	18	4
2	LEGION XIII	+1	18	4
3	MAJESTICKS GC	+5	18	4
T4	4ACES GC	+7	18	4
T4	CRUSHERS GC	+7	18	4
T4	RIPPER GC	+7	18	4
7	KOREAN GOLF CLUB	+12	18	4
8	HYFLYERS GC	+14	18	4
9	SOUTHERN GUARDS GC	+15	18	4
10	CLEEKS GOLF CLUB	+18	18	4
11	FIREBALLS GC	+22	18	4
12	OKGC	+23	18	4
13	RANGEGOATS GC	+36	18	4