Calculating Handicaps: Do the Math

What they say about making sausage and making laws could also be said about calculating handicaps. The handicap calculation isn't pretty - but it gets the job done. Better still, it's not a calculation you have to do on your own. But that doesn't mean it isn't interesting to discover just how it's done. Take a look at this explanation of the math involved in calculating handicaps.
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