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How to calculate golf handicap: best 8 of your last 20
A Handicap Index averages your best 8 Score Differentials from your last 20 rounds. The formula, a worked example on two real courses, and how to get one.
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Golf relief area: four reference points, one gives two club-lengths
Golf relief has four reference points outside a penalty area, and only one gives two club-lengths. Work out which point applies to your ball and the distance follows.
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Golf penalty strokes: OB is 1, bunker sand is 2, flagstick is 0
Three mistakes that feel alike carry three different penalties. Out of bounds costs one stroke, testing bunker sand costs two, and the flagstick costs nothing.