FIND OUT ABOUT ACCEPTABLE SCORES UNDER THE WHS

One of the key aims of the World Handicap System is to provide golfers with more opportunities to submit counting scores.

The WHS will allow golfers the freedom to submit a score for handicapping purposes at anytime and anywhere in the world. This can be done in either competition or general play.

Some of the factors that will allow a score to be acceptable for handicapping purposes, as outlined in the new Rules of Handicapping, include:

• An authorised format of play; Strokeplay, Stableford & Par/Bogey.
• Over a minimum number of holes; 9 for 9 holes and 10 for 18 holes (all scores will be scaled up into an 18-hole differential).
• By the Rules of Golf.
• With at least one other person.
• On a course with a current Course Rating and Slope Rating.
• During an active season.
• Certified in accordance with Rules of Handicapping

General play scores can be submitted direct from the Scottish Golf App.

Players must pre-register their intent to submit a score for handicap purposes in general play before they start their round, and in the manner prescribed by the Handicap Committee or Scottish Golf.

To find out more about Acceptable Scores:
https://scottishgolf.org/find-out-about-acceptable-scores-under-whs/