How to Calculate Your Golf Handicap

Calculating your golf handicap is a great way to figure out where you stand in comparison to other golfers. It's also a great way to track the progress in your golf game. Seeing your handicap improve is as good a feeling as a double birdie! Calculating your handicap used to be a complicated process for a golfer. However, with the online tools available at GolfLink.com, if you can remember your score for a round, you can easily calculate your handicap.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet access
• Scorecards, or an accurate memory of your previous golf scores.

1. Direct your browser to www.GolfLink.com.
2. Click on Golf Courses in the header. Once there, search for your course by entering course info like the course name, city or state, etc. When the search results are returned, click on the course you played.
3. Once you are on the course detail page, click on the "Record a Round" link just under the course description. You might be prompted to sign in or sign up for a subscription. If you're not a GolfLink subscriber already, the sign up process is quick and comes with a 14-day free trial - more than enough time to find all your old scorecards, enter them and calculate your handicap.
4. Once you've clicked on the "Record a Round" link, you'll be taken to a Round Recorder page. Enter the date you played, total holes played and your total score in the fields as marked. Then, click the "Record this Round" button. Your score will be saved automatically in the My Game tracker in your account.
5. Repeat the process (search for your golf course then record your round) for four more rounds. Then, click on "My Game" in the navigation bar at the top of the page, and voila! You'll be taken to a the My Game homepage which automatically calculates your golf handicap based on your last 5 rounds of golf!

Tips & Warnings

• GolfLink.com makes calculating your golf handicap very easy. In its database, GolfLink has stats like course difficulty, slope, etc. that are used to calculate a handicap for virtually every golf course in the United States and Canada.
• Make use of GolfLink's other subscription features that make recording a round easy: print detailed scorecards and course maps, record your hole-by-hole score with My Game, save your favorite courses and create a course wishlist.
• Check out the GolfLink community - membership is always free! Meet other golfers and compare your handicap.
• Make use of GolfLink's database of tips and videos to IMPROVE your handicap!