CONGU Unified Handicapping System 2008 - 2011

A golf handicap allows players of all levels of golfing ability to compete against each other on a fair and equal basis. Thus a handicap system is effectively essential to the popularity and prosperity of the game of Amateur Golf. The System developed and refined by the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) provides a player with a golf handicap that reflects their playing ability relative to that of all other players handicapped by the CONGU® Handicapping System. In 2004 CONGU® incorporated Ladies’ golf handicaps within the system and this effectively completed the objective of providing a golf handicap that allowed players of all levels of ability to compete on an equal basis at Club, District, Provincial, National and International levels.

CONGU® handicaps are ONLY allocated to players who are members of clubs or organisations affiliated to a National Union/Association or CONGU® and authorised by CONGU® to utilise the Unified Handicapping System (UHS). Such clubs/organisations are obligated to administer the UHS in a tightly controlled and uniform way thus ensuring that the members’ golf handicaps are maintained with consistency and uniformity.

A CONGU® Golf Handicap is a unique guarantee that its possessor has a golf handicap that reflects his ability and has the standards expected of a recognised golf club, thus it provides a universally accepted passport to the pleasures that golf has to offer the world over!

The Council of National Golf Unions Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee comprising golf handicapping experts from all the Golf Unions and Associations that administer golf in Great Britain and Ireland.

Develop and maintain a Golf Handicapping System that provides CONGU Handicaps for all players of the Clubs affiliated to the National Unions and Associations. Also to assist and support these Organisations, and their Affiliated Clubs, in administering golf handicaps on a day-to-day basis.

To promote the development of golf at Affiliated Clubs by providing a Handicapping System which produces golf handicaps that allow amateur players, male and female, of significantly varying abilities to compete against each other on as equitable a basis as possible.