What is a Playing Handicap™? Your Playing Handicap is the number of strokes you give to, or receive from, an opponent for the round being played. It’s based on your Course Handicap™ but can be ...

The USGA Experience and World Golf Hall of Fame Experiences are located on the USGA’s Golf House Pinehurst campus, situated between Pinehurst Resort’s Carolina Hotel and its Main Clubhouse. The ...

U.S. Adaptive Open RecordsAge Oldest Champion, Men's Overall (years/months/days) 27/0/3, Kipp Popert, 2025 26/0/4, Kipp Popert, 2024 Oldest Champion, Women's Overall 44/4/23 Kim Moore, 2025 41/4/24 ...

5.7 Low Handicap Index The Low Handicap Index represents the demonstrated ability of a player over the 365-day period preceding the day on which the most recent score in their scoring record was ...

There is no longer a penalty for merely touching the line of play on the putting green (the term “line of play” applies everywhere on the course including the putting green, and the term “line of putt ...

There is no longer a penalty if a ball played from the putting green hits a flagstick left in the hole. Players are not required to putt with the flagstick in the hole; rather, they continue to have ...

Are you an average golfer? And what would it mean if you were? After all, this is golf, a sport of such random, unforeseen outcomes it tends to mock the notion that anything hews to an average – or ...

The USGA Green Section explains how to properly repair ball marks.

Sand Valley Resort, in Nekoosa, Wis., has been selected by the USGA to host four future amateur championships, starting with the 2026 U.S. Mid-Amateur.

World Handicap System resources dedicated to the 2024 revision.

Building on their shared passion to showcase golf’s legends, the USGA and the World Golf Hall of Fame will create a new visitor experience in Pinehurst, N.C.

When you hit a shot that you think might result in a lost ball or in your ball coming to rest out of bounds, you have the option of playing a provisional ball to save time.