Everybody knows someone in their inner circle with a vanity handicap. It’s the player who claims to be a single-digit—but ...

The Long Game tracks the Handicap Index progress of four Golf Digest editors of different abilities throughout the 2024 golf season. Catch up on last month’s story. A month into this season-long ...

We’ve been tracking the YouTube Golf Power Rankings for several months now and the leaderboard continues to evolve as more ...

Golf handicaps are an essential aspect of the game. But there’s a lot to learn about them, and at times they can get complicated. Whether you are a beginner golfer who is trying to get their first ...

Handicaps in golf are the subject of public shame and personal aspiration. But they are also a crucial part of the game for many amateur players, an essential mechanism for allowing any two players of ...

Outside of perhaps your putter, it's the driver that remains the most important and perplexing club in your bag. Hitting your driver well — and by that we mean, far and relatively straight — is really ...

Data relating to the three leading amateurs at the 2026 US Women's Open shows how their Handicap Indexes changed noticeably ...