Our Heated Office Debate About The World Handicap System Unearthed A Worrying Divide Between Low- And High-Handicappers…

Golf scorecards on a table with the letters WHS written across them.

It’s not controversial to suggest the World Handicap System is divisive. There are countless positives and hundreds of thousands of golfers around the world are pleased it came into being in 2020. I count myself as one of those.

But there are plenty of others who oppose the new framework and preferred the old CONGU system, the previous iteration in the history of handicapping.