#SCRATCH GOLFER PRO#
We know that he turned pro with a handicap of +8. There's not much of anything about Woods' career that hasn't been explored. Has anyone calculated what Woods' handicap would be if he carried one as a pro? Of course. The pros' handicaps, in other words, would be even lower than the figures derived from using the USGA course and slope ratings. We laymen can't know how much of an adjustment that would make to a golfer's handicap, just know that any figure you derive, if you put in the work of doing the calculations described above, is going to be a little high. We say "approximation" because the golf courses the tour pros play are even tougher than their stated course/slope ratings: The pros aren't playing those courses as they are set up for daily play, after all.
Then plug that info into one of the golf handicap calculators that you can find online, and you have an approximation of a tour pro's handicap. For tour golfers, that info is easy to get.
#SCRATCH GOLFER PLUS#
All you need is the golfer's last 20 scores, plus the USGA course rating and slope rating of the golf courses on which those scores were achieved.
Professional golfers don't carry official handicaps, but enterprising fans can figure out approximations. So Woods, at +8, would have had to add eight strokes to his score if playing a handicap round. Ninety-nine percent of golfers use their handicaps to adjust their scores downward a plus-handicapper has to adjust his score upward. And by the time Woods turned pro, which he did at age 20, his handicap was a remarkable +8. That means his handicap was zero at that point. He became a scratch golfer at the age of 13. Tiger Woods was a 2-handicapper at the age of 11. And we also have some information about Woods' handicaps during his junior and amateur golf career. But that doesn't mean we can't answer the question! There are ways to figure out what a professional golfer's handicap index would be if, in fact, he or she had one. As soon as a golfer turns pro - any golfer, not just touring pros - they stop carrying a handicap index. No professional golfer has an official handicap. But if he did, it would be an amazingly low one, as we'll see below.
Trick question: Tiger Woods doesn't have a handicap.
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