Golf
Every golf calculator on CalcEngines — rates and averages, scoring and standings, and plain explanations of the rules behind them, each one naming the governing body and the season its numbers come from.
8 calculators in this section
- Golf Course Distance and Yardage ConverterYards to metres and back, for a scorecard printed in the other system. The factor is exact and definitional — a yard has been 0.9144 metres since 1959 — so this converter has no approximation in it anywhere, which is rarer on a golf page than it sounds.
- Golf Match Play Status and DormieWhether a match is already decided, from the holes won, lost and played. The Rules of Golf settle it in one sentence — a player wins when the lead is greater than the holes remaining — and the equality case, where the lead exactly matches what is left, is the one golf gave its own word: dormie.
- Golf Penalty Strokes and ReliefWhat a situation costs and which relief the Rules of Golf allow: one penalty stroke, the general penalty, or none at all. The combinations that catch people out are the ones where the option you want is not available — lateral relief from a yellow penalty area, or anything but stroke and distance for a lost ball.
- Golf Score to Par and Scoring TermsWhat a hole's score is called, in the Rules' own language and in the birds. The Rules of Golf say “one under fixed target score” and never say “birdie”: the nicknames come from somewhere else, two published histories of them disagree, and this page prints both rather than picking one.
- Golf Scoring Average and Strokes to ParYour strokes per round and how far above or below par that lands, from the totals you already have. A gross average, plainly: nothing here adjusts a score, caps a hole or produces a handicap, and the page says why it will not.
- Greens in Regulation and Putts CalculatorGreens hit in regulation as a percentage, putts per hole and per round, and how often you got up and down from the greens you missed. Three conventions that no governing body defines — which this page states rather than attributing.
- Stableford Points CalculatorPoints for one hole, from the table the Rules of Golf actually print: nought for more than one over the fixed target score, then one a stroke up to six. The handicap strokes you receive on the hole come from you, because working them out is the one piece of arithmetic this site will not reproduce.
- The World Handicap System, ExplainedWhat a Handicap Index is, who issues it, why 113 is in every formula, and where to get your own Course Handicap. This page computes none of it, and the reason is a clause in the rulebook rather than a limitation of the arithmetic — which is set out below, quoted, so you can judge it.