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Golf handicaps went global in 2020

The World Handicap System replaced six separate schemes in January that year The R&A and the USGA developed the system with handicapping authorities around the world so a handicap would mean the same thing everywhere. It is based on the best eight of a player's last 20 scores, adjusted for the difficulty of the course. Golfers can now take a handicap from one country to another. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The World Handicap System replaced six separate schemes in January that year. The figure is taken from The R&A, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.