Golf Features Articles

by M. James Ward

The calendar on 2018 is coming to an end, but make no mistake about it, the golf season just completed produced a number of key news items of special note. The return of Tiger Woods to competitive golf - and doing so in grand fashion leads the way. But, there are other key contributors, some which will spill into 2019.

Yangtze Dunes, the newly renovated 18 at 36-hole Lanhai International Country Club, celebrated its grand re-opening in late October with lavish, weeklong ceremonies that drew a throng of local dignitaries and an international assembly of media, course raters and tour players.

Below we have laid out the importance of a handicap to a golfer in his or her development and why there must be a profound change in how the game is administered.
England Golf has just released a briefing document to usher in a greater understanding of the new World Handicap System. This new handicapping system will set golf back many years and the R&A and England Golf are both responsible for this most brazen act of stupidity. They have managed to make the new handicap system far more complex than it need be, and it will only be accessible through the England Golf website.