handicap, a system of scoring...

handicap: System of scoring that allows good players and not-so-good players to compete on equal terms. Your first handicap will probably be 36. This means that when you finish playing you deduct 36 strokes from your score. As you get better your handicap becomes smaller. Some players become so good that they actually have to add strokes to their score, rather than taking them off.

my first handicap was 66 and will always be officially stay the same. but me'll score anyway, me'll add strokes, rather than taking them off...

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