I intended on getting this out before the U.S. Memorial, Holiday weekend, because this is the unofficial kickoff of summer, but I got caught up in travel preparation and the fact that gas was going to deplete my wallet this weekend, that I didn’t get a chance.

One of the many things American’s, including myself enjoy doing during these warm summer months, is golfing. Hitting up the green grass, drinking a few cold ones and screaming out expletives in what is a so called “Relaxing Game”. I’ve loved it since I was probably eight or nine years old and although my game has improved, I’m likely never going to improve my mediocre play that I have right now. One way I have discovered improving upon it though, is tracking your scores online and measuring it with an official/unofficial handicap.

I started searching for one earlier this week, and quickly discovered there are many, many options out there:

Google: Golf Handicap Tracking

The one of which was free, allowed me to use an account I already had, contained almost every course and was the most user friendly, is Yahoo’s Golf Handicap Tracker. You enter your scores, the tees you hit from and it does the calculating for you. If they don’t have your course in the system, you can enter the yardage, the rating and the slope, which you can find typically on the scorecard for the course you are playing, so then you can essentially have any course you need.

There are other options, including paying $20/year to make it an official USGA handicap, but I’d prefer to keep mine “unofficial” at this point and time.

Some people would prefer not to track all of the scoring throughout the year, but I’m going to give it a shot this year and see if I can approve upon my game this year.

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