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You’re about to play a match with your buddies, and it’s time to figure out who gets strokes. Puzzled? Here’s how it works:
The low-handicapper in the group gets no strokes, and everyone else gets the difference between their handicap and the best player’s handicap. So in a group that has, for example, a 14-, a 10-, a 9- and a 7- handicapper, the player who carries a 7 gets no strokes. The 9 gets strokes on the two hardest holes, the 10 gets strokes on the three hardest holes and the 14 gets strokes on the seven hardest.
Some golfers mistakenly think the 14-handicapper would get a shot on the 14 most difficult holes, a 10 would get 10, and so on.
If you did it that way, it wouldn’t be fair. Higher handicappers would get strokes on relatively easy holes, and lower handicappers would get them on tougher holes, says Dean Knuth, former senior director of handicapping at the U.S. Golf Association and creator of the Golf Digest Handicap. (Get yours free at www.golfdigest.com/handicap.)
Using the correct method greatly improves the chances of every hole being halved–which is the goal of handicapping, Knuth says.

Article from Golf Digest.

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