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Anyone know the formula for calculating a handicap index? Setting up a spreadsheet to track my progress over time. Thanks……Greg
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Anyone know the formula for calculating a handicap index? Setting up a spreadsheet to track my progress over time. Thanks……Greg
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Anyone know the formula for calculating a handicap index? Setting up a spreadsheet to track my progress over time. Thanks……Greg
The info is at http://www.usga.org . Since you ar eobviously interested in your game, perhaps you’d like to know more about it than just your HC. If so, stop by our site and have a look at what we’re doing. Thanks, Jeff — Jeffery J. Bohl, President Bohl Consolidated Technologies http://www.sover.net/~smasher/ Statmaster Golf Statistiscs Software the Professional’s Choice Official Stats program of the Independent Professional Golfer’s Assoc. Rank your whole game, not just your scores, against the world
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http://www.usga.org/handicap/manual/c2-10.html
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Anyone know the formula for calculating a handicap index? Setting up a spreadsheet to track my progress over time. Thanks……Greg
(Adjusted Gross Score – U.S.G.A. Course Rating) x (113/U.S.G.A. Slope Rating). Why set up a spreadsheet? I recommend using one of the commerically available programs. I like and use Golf Digest Scorecard 4.0.