GOLF handicaps are not fair, according to US researchers. Instead of making a
game between any two golfers an even contest, the handicap system leaves the
better player at an advantage.
“The idea behind the handicap system is to give players an equitable chance
of winning,” says Larry Kupper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. But with the handicap system, he says, it turns out that a bad golfer will
lose 60 to 70 per cent of games to a good one.
To calculate a golf handicap in the US, a player submits their 20 most recent…
