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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
There are many vendors that provide handicaps to clubs. GHIN is simply the network of the USGA. The other vendors can be less expensive but usually the difference is not significant. They all, however use the USGA handicap system to compute your handicap.
The change, if it comes is not to your handicap system. It is simply to the company that computes your handicap and issues your little cards. All handicaps have to be computed by the USGA handicap system or they are not recognized in this country.
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Correct. I actually copied the USGA logic into a program I wrote for my work league back north. That way I could customize a little and slant towards the course we played EVERY week. Worked out great - we had very, very close matches every week.