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Golf Monthly
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Jeremy Ellwood

How A Playing Partner Holing A Putt Could Increase Your Handicap Index

Golfer holing putt in fourball format.

We recently received a letter in the Golf Monthly offices about the World Handicap System (WHS) in relation to golf's four-ball better-ball format that had us all scratching our heads and saying, “That can’t possibly be true... can it?”

I’m not quite as up on all things Rules and handicapping as I was, having passed that particular baton on to someone else a year or so ago, but I had a vague recollection that my colleague Rob Smith had mentioned something about this very subject, although I couldn’t remember the details.

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