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Nothing gets and keeps a golfer's juices flowing like talk of handicap abuse. Dean Knuth's reply to a question on beating one's handicap got to Golf Digest reader C.T. Brown. Dear Editor: I wish to...

Monday, 1/5/2009 at 2:52PM

keywords:: Dean Knuth,; Handicapping

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See the well-researched piece on handicapping by John Paul Newport in the Wall Street Journal this weekend. Newport, after a trip to Atlantic City, lauds the handicap system's power to level a Buddies trip playing...

Monday, 11/3/2008 at 6:11AM

keywords:: Dean Knuth,; Handicapping,; USGA

Magazines / Editors' Blog

Golf Digest reader Donald G. Klein was one of the first to reply to Editor Jerry Tarde's request for suggestions and story ideas. Klein wants stories on handicapping, specifically on one question: Why do high...

Tuesday, 10/21/2008 at 7:33AM

keywords:: Handicapping

Magazines / Editors' Blog

Who knew it would come on a Tuesday, not even during a major week. But today a scientist at Purdue University revelaed the secret to lower golf scores. As you may have suspected, it's about...

Tuesday, 7/8/2008 at 10:43AM

keywords:: Equitable Stroke Control,; Handicapping,; Instruction

Magazines / Editors' Blog

Golf Digest reader Dwight Morgan of Saphhire, N.C. writes with a question that comes up often among my playing partners, especially when they include women. Thank you for the article "What is a 10 Handicapper?"...

Thursday, 7/3/2008 at 12:20PM

keywords:: Handicapping

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Alex Lavin, Highland Park, Ill., perhaps thinking that Tiger's knee injury makes him vulnerable, send this question. My friends and I have been engrossed in an argument over the past few days: The score Tiger...

Tuesday, 6/10/2008 at 10:43PM

keywords:: Handicapping, Tiger Woods, U.S. Open Contest

Magazines / Editors' Blog

"You're really doing this? He's going to play the Open course? He won't be able to think straight...Tour pros can shoot in the 80s on an Open course. What does that say for a 7-handicap?"...

Thursday, 5/22/2008 at 3:11PM

keywords:: Handicapping,; Slope Rating,; U.S. Open Contest

Magazines / Editors' Blog

For Tim Fulton of Davie, Florida, the U.S. Open Contest, and Guy Yocom's June-issue story in Golf Digest on what constitutes a 10-handicapper, unearthed a great deal of resentment about the USGA Handicap system. After...

Wednesday, 5/21/2008 at 3:11PM

keywords:: Handicapping, U.S. Open Contest

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When the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge is played at Torrey Pines on the eve of the U.S. Open, we'll see a test that is perfect in scale. A 10-handicapper trying to break 100 at...

Tuesday, 5/20/2008 at 1:36PM

keywords:: Handicapping,; U.S. Open Contest

Magazines / Editors' Blog

I love this letter from Stewart Thomson of Newport Beach, California. In it he reports on a pre-test of the whole US Open contest: Can a 10-handicap golfer break 100 on the Open course under...

Wednesday, 4/23/2008 at 3:40PM