If you're like us, you play golf regularly enough to be tempted to join a golf club or website service just to track your own handicap. Also like us, you probably don't want to fork out the yearly membership dues just to be able to tell fellow golf buddies what your handicap is.
So what did we do about it?
We set out to understand what a golf "handicap" really is and how to calculate it! We then simply entered the formula into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and inserted the course ratings of the courses we played into the correct positions in the formula. It did not take long to see a simple spreadsheet was not going to work!
We found entereing data for more than just a couple courses became extremely tedious, and the spreadsheet was rather.....ahem, ugly! What to do now? Well, we said "What if?". Yes, "What if we could develop the spreadsheet with enough features to make it simple to enter all data and actually useable for every round we play?". "And what if we could do all of this so anyone could use it?". Then we brainstormed and layed out several ideas, and then we set out to implement them.
After what amounted to three golf seasons on the calendar, we now have a product that we are extremely happy with, so much so, we are offering it to the masses - the seasoned low handicapper to the weekend hack!
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions for much more information, including why our product - the Personal Handcap Wizard - is a great alternative, or even a supliment, to an official USGA handicap.