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Course Handicap Calculator

Your Handicap Index travels with you; your Course Handicap is what it becomes on the day. This is the number of strokes you actually receive from a specific set of tees.

Enter your Handicap Index and the tee's numbers from the scorecard.

Your Course Handicap

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Enter your Handicap Index, the Slope, the Course Rating, and par.

Don't know your index? → Handicap Calculator The building block → Score Differential

The formula

Course Handicap = Handicap Index × (Slope Rating ÷ 113) + (Course Rating − Par)

This is the current World Handicap System formula. The Slope part scales your index to how hard the tees play; the (Course Rating − Par) part — added since 2020 — accounts for tees where the scratch expectation differs from par, so the same index gives a consistent target whichever tees you choose. The result is rounded to the nearest whole number of strokes.

How to read the result

Your Course Handicap is the number of strokes you get for this course and tee — subtract it from your gross score for a rough net score, or use it to know which holes you receive a shot on. Every figure you need (Slope, Course Rating, par) is printed on the scorecard or the course's tee information. Don't have a Handicap Index yet? Estimate one with the handicap calculator.