Three Key Changes for 2024 to the World Handicap System
2023 Rules of Golf - Amendments
There is ONE new rule, the players with disabilities rule.
The categories are: Players who are blind (which includes certain levels of vision impairment; amputees (those with limb deficiencies and those who have lost a limb); players who use assistive mobility devices; and players with intellectual disabilities.
Modifications include, depending on category of disability: allowing the setting down of objects to help with aiming, stance and swinging; anchoring; and touching sand in a bunker with a club in front or behind the ball.
The New Rules of Golf 2019