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World Handicap System

14 May 2019 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

Photograph of a WHS Conversion Chart against a backdrop of Beverley & East Riding Golf Course, by kind permission of Beverley & East Riding Golf Club

The R&A and the USGA have developed a new World Handicap System (WHS) which delivers a unified and more inclusive handicapping system, which has been implemented globally on a staggered basis throughout 2020. In this article, Golfing Herald provides an overview (albeit from 50,000 ft.) of the key objectives and features of this worldwide initiative and how it will impact … [Read more...] about World Handicap System

Golf Competition Conundrum

20 February 2019 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

An image of the Fictional Golf and Country Club Competition Committee Meeting!!

Slow play is once again in the headlines. On this occasion the final round of the rain-interrupted 2019 USPGA Genesis Open, where golf commentators are openly discussing the pace of play of the winner J.B. Holmes rather than the quality of his golf. Golfing Herald’s take on the pace of play is expressed through 'Competition Conundrum', a fictional golfing story loosely based … [Read more...] about Golf Competition Conundrum

Honesty and Honestly

29 January 2019 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

An image of an Honesty Box, to provide an illustration of the actual Bamburgh Castle Golf Club Honesty Box

“Honesty and Honestly” is a personal golfing reminisce, turning back the clock to over 40 summers ago, to a week in time that whatever the question, golf was the answer. Itinerary I was about 16 or 17 years of age when my late father and I went on a week’s golfing holiday. Brilliant, as in those salad days I could actually play golf to a very reasonable standard and I … [Read more...] about Honesty and Honestly

Scorecard Semiotics

21 December 2018 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

The original artwork for the London Underground map, the brainchild of London Underground electrical draughtsman Harry Beck

The Tube Map is the iconic schematic for the London Underground system using a combination of colours and shapes. In Scorecard Semiotics, Golfing Herald examines a sample of golf course scorecards to present an argument that just like the Tube map, the golf scorecard should also be viewed as a design and semiotic icon. Semiotics Semiotics is the study of sign process. Signs … [Read more...] about Scorecard Semiotics

Carris Trophy 2018

5 August 2018 By Paul @ Golfing Herald

The iconic image of Bernhard Langer playing his 3rd shot from a tree during the 1981 Benson & Hedges International Open

Barclay Brown, from Hallamshire Golf Club, clinched the Carris Trophy with a narrow 1 shot victory at Fulford Golf Club, York. The 17-year-old England Boy International birdied the final 2 holes to overhaul Gregorio De Leo from Italy to claim his first major win with a score of 280 (8 under par). An opening round of 73 (which included 6 penalty shots) left Brown 7 shots off … [Read more...] about Carris Trophy 2018

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