"What's your handicap?" Other than "Is that good?", that's probably one of the most frequently asked questions in golf. How to get a USGA golf handicap Figuring out how to get a USGA golf handicap is a question that a lot of golfers want the answer to but are too afraid to ask. However, there are several ways to obtain a handicap subscription. Do I need to be a member of a club to keep a USGA handicap index? If you want a USGA Handicap Index, you have to maintain a handicap by joining a golf club. That doesn't mean you have to join a country club. That means you have to join a USGA approved g ..read more

Golf is hard. There are no two ways about it. Most golfers are happy just to hit the ball straight -- or at least straight enough to avoid the woods, or the sand, or the water or any number of very bad places to find your golf ball. However, even bad golfers need to at least understand how to hit a draw (or a hook) and a fade (or a slice). If you know why you produce each shot shape, then you can have a better understanding of why your golf ball flies with the side-to-side shape that it does and, more importantly, have a better chance of being able to change your shot shape when you'd like ..read more

The PGA Tour FedEx Cup bonus pool purse has increased starting with the 2024 season to $100 million, with the winner's share coming in at $25,000,000 -- not a standard payout according to the PGA Tour's prize money distribution chart. The winner gets $24 million of that in cash up front, with $1 million deferred into their retirement account, which is a pension managed by the PGA Tour (very well, we might add). The top 30 players earn some cash from the prize pool, while other players receive money deferred into their retirement pension. After the top 30 players in the lineup, the remaining 1 ..read more

Tiger Woods' Florida house -- specifically located in the town of Jupiter -- is a sprawling $54 million mansion with a ton of square footage and plenty of land, including room for a four-hole practice facility, a pool and much more. Woods moved into the Jupiter Island home in 2010, near the time he was getting divorced from Elin Nordegren, his first wife. The property, which Woods used as collateral for paying his settlement with Nordegren, is on prime real estate stretching from the Intracoastal Waterway to the Atlantic Ocean. He has plenty of beachfront property, and on the other side is th ..read more

Most golf fans kind of take it for granted that a professional golf tournament -- at least on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and DP World Tour -- is almost always scheduled to be 72 holes, played in four rounds over four days. But why is a golf tournament 72 holes? What made that the standard for championship golf as opposed to 18, 36 or 54 holes? Why four full rounds instead of, say, two and a half? After all, the Open Championship -- the longest-running major and most significant golf tournament in the world -- wasn't always 72 holes. In fact, when the tournament started in 1860, it was a 36-hole ..read more

The 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship format remains unchanged this year, with the PGA Tour event played at Corales Golf Club in the Dominican Republic. The 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship field is 132 players. The Corales Puntacana Championship field is made up of a variety of players, but the opposite-field event is based on a set of criteria from FedEx Cup standing to sponsor exemptions. Corales Puntacana Championship format The Corales Puntacana Championship format is a 72-hole event. The 132 pros are split into threesomes for each of the first two days. The field is divided into mo ..read more

The 2024 RBC Heritage format remains unchanged this year, with the PGA Tour event played at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, S.C. The 2024 RBC Heritage field is 69 players. The RBC Heritage field is made up of a variety of players, but the Signature event field is limited to top players from the FedEx Cup standings from last season, this season and better players in the Official World Golf Ranking. RBC Heritage format The RBC Heritage format is a 72-hole event. The 69 pros are split into twosomes for each of the first two days -- except for Alejandro Tosti, who will play as a so ..read more

On the PGA Tour, about 10 tournaments each season are expected to end up in a tie after 72 holes, requiring a playoff to determine a winner. With the exception of The Players, the PGA Tour's playoff format is a classic, sudden-death format. Players in the playoff keep competing one hole at a time, trying to make the lowest score possible. The draw for the playoff is no longer a random number draw out of a hat. As of Feb. 22, 2021, the players tee off on the first playoff hole in the order in which they finished the 72-hole event. The first player in the house that gets in the playoff is the f ..read more

The 2024 The Chevron Championship format remains unchanged this year, with the LPGA Tour event played at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. The 2024 The Chevron Championship field is 132 players, including Lydia Ko, Jin Young Ko, Nelly Korda and Brooke Henderson. The Chevron Championship field is made up of players who get in off the LPGA Tour's priority order for this point in the 2024 LPGA Tour season, as well as former tournament winners, fellow major champions and some top amateurs. The Chevron Championship is played Thursday through Sunday. The Chevron Championship format ..read more

For Thursday's first round of the 2024 RBC Heritage, Alejandro Tosti found himself teeing off first and by himself in the 8:15 a.m. Eastern tee time. It turned out to be a blessing for the Argentine golfer who contended to win at the Texas Children's Houston Open. Tosti loves to play quickly. He often complains when his playing partners are playing too slowly, and he's definitely not in the mood to take his time around the golf course. There are plenty of stories of Tosti just trying to keep things moving. (There are also other Tosti stories, but many of them are not fit for publication.) Al ..read more