Handicaps

There are two ways to maintain a handicap on our web site. We feature support for the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, U.K., Scotland, Ireland, Wales, continental Europe and more!​

There are two ways to maintain your handicap on this web site:

1) The quick way

2) The proper way

​Our calculator will show you all differentials and will even highlight which scores were used by the handicap formula.

You may store the results simply by creating an ID number for yourself and inventing a password to protect your entries from internet mischief so that your handicap will be unaltered when next you visit to retrieve them.

Membership is not required to use our handicap calculator. But you will not receive any charts. Nor will your score cards be available online.

THE PROPER WAY

By joining up for a 100% free Classic Membership, or one of our Premium Membership Plans, your handicaps will be automatically calculated and maintained for you.

You simply enter hole-by-hole results onto our online electronic score card and we do the rest. We apply Equitable Stroke Control.

Not only will you receive instantly updated handicaps. You'll also receive charts, score card summaries and a useful handicap history page, suitable for printing to paper.

You'll also be able to track putts, greens-in-regulation, fairways made and up to five other statistics.

To register for an official handicap, click HERE

Helpful Golf Tips

The single most important - and frequently overlooked - full swing fundamental in golf is the setup position. So here's a step-by-step guide of what makes a great golf setup. We start with ...

ALIGNMENT

At address your body (feet, knees, hips, forearms, shoulders and eyes) should be positioned parallel to the target line. When viewed from behind, a right-handed golfer will appear aimed slightly left of the target. This optical illusion is created because the ball is on the target line and the body is not.

The easiest way to conceptualize this is the image of a railroad track. The body is on the inside rail and the ball is on the outside rail. For right-handers, at 100 yards your body will appear aligned approximately 3 to 5 yards left, at 150 yards approximately 8 to 10 yards left and at 200 yards 12 to 15 yards left.

FOOT

The feet should be shoulder width (outside of the shoulders to the inside of the heels) for the middle irons. The short iron stance will be two inches narrower and the stance for long irons and woods should be two inches wider. The target-side foot should be flared toward the target from 20 to 40 degrees to allow the body to rotate toward the target on the downswing. The back foot should be square (90 degrees to the target line) to slightly open to create the proper hip turn on the back swing. Your flexibility and body rotation speed determine the proper foot placement.

BALANCE

Your weight should be balanced on the balls of the feet, not on the heels or toes. With short irons, your weight should be 60-percent on the target side foot (left foot for right-handers). For middle iron shots the weight should be 50/50 or equal on each foot. For your longest clubs, place 60% of your weight on the backside foot (right foot for right-handers). This will help you swing the club on the correct angle on the back swing.

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POSTURE

Your knees should be slightly flexed and directly over the balls of your feet for balance. The center of the upper spine (between your shoulder blades), knees and balls of the feet should be stacked when viewed from behind the ball on the target line. Also, the back knee should be cocked slightly inward towards the target. This will help you brace yourself on this leg during the back swing, thus preventing lower body sway.Your body should bend at the hips, not in the waist (your buttocks will protrude slightly when you are in this correct posture).

The spine is the axis of rotation for the swing, so it should be bent towards the ball from the hips at approximately a 90-degree angle to the shaft of the club. This right angle relationship between the spine and the shaft will help you swing the club, arms and body as a team on the correct plane.

Your vertebrae should be in a straight line with no bending in the middle of the spine. If your spine is in a "slouch" posture, every degree of bend decreases your shoulder turn by 1.5 degrees. Your ability to turn the shoulders on the back swing equals your power potential, so keep your spine in line for longer drives and more consistent ball striking.

BALL POSITION

The ball placement varies with the club you select. From a flat lie:•

• Play your short irons (wedges, 9-iron and 8-iron) in the center portion of your stance. These clubs have the most upright lie angles and they must be swung at the steepest angle, and you should take a divot in front of the ball.•

• Your middle irons should be played one ball toward the target-side foot from center (a ball left of center for the right-handed golfer). These clubs have a slightly flatter lie angle and you should take a slightly shallower divot than with the short irons.

• The correct ball position for the long irons and fairway woods is two balls toward the target-side foot from center (two balls left for the right-hander). With these clubs, the ball should be struck directly at the bottom of the swing arc with very little divot.

• The driver is played farthest forward (three balls left of center for the right-hander) to strike the ball on the upswing.