DSGA
Different Strokes Golf Association
Different Strokes Golf Association
For members:
click on http://www.GHIN.com to access the the handicap website.
How do I set up a handicap?
As a member of DSGA, you can have access to the GHIN handicap system.
The cost for this handicap service is $20 per year. See membership page for payment info.
Once you pay, you will recieve a GHIN membership number to access your account.
Start entering your scores! Remember to have the slope and course rating to enter also with each round.
You can enter rounds of 9 holes or 18 holes.
After 5 rounds (18 holes) or 10 1/2 rounds (9 holes), you will have an established handicap and will receive an official card! Your handicap is updated monthly.
Why get a handicap?
A handicap allows you to participate in competitive league play and golf tournaments.
A handicap is a good way to keep track of your game..for better or worse!
What's in a handicap?
An official handicap - one that is established through the auspices of a USGA affiliated club - is called a "handicap index." To establish a handicap index, a golfer needs a minimum of his five most recent scores (18h hole score), plus the course rating and slope rating of the courses played.
A USGA Handicap Index is a numeral, to one decimal place, that represents a golfer's potential for scoring. A handicap index of 14.5, for example, indicates that a golfer will, on his or her best days, shoot somewhere around 14 or 15 strokes over par.
USGA Course Rating is an evaluation of the difficulty of a golf course for scratch golfers. Actually, the number is an estimate of the average scores of the best 50-percent of rounds played by scratch golfers at the course being rated.
USGA Slope Rating is a number ranging from 55 to 155 that represents the difficulty of a course for bogey golfers relative to the USGA Course Rating (which represents the difficulty for scratch golfers).
