handicap

He has an 8 handicap in golf and can drive a ball 300 yards from the tee, so if you need a ringer for a charity tournament, Goroyan will play the role.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Shah admits that Uncle Sam could contribute to volatility, as markets try to handicap these potential worries.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

His golf handicap just went up in my book.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

There was further history for I Am Maximus, with a handicap of 11st 12lb, becoming the first top weight to triumph since Red Rum carried 12st in 1974.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

From infancy, he had some kind of hernia condition which was to handicap him physically for the rest of his life.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

As far as handicaps go, if you are sweeping your putts, you’re only hurting yourself and no one else…keep it enjoyable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

It also created a ranking system, Spindex, with the hopes of making it a ratings scale similar to golf handicaps.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

More than 40% of the district’s voters are Democrats, while 28.3% are Republicans and 23.3% registered as having no party preference, according to the nonpartisan California Target Book, which handicaps congressional races.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

Administrators admit the system is open to abuse and some players artificially manipulate handicaps to improve their chances of winning amateur competitions.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

From then on we bandaged handicaps to pass them off as wounds.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He was an excellent fifth to Jagwar at last year's Cheltenham Festival and is now much better handicapped with that rival.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Byron Callan, a defense analyst at Washington, D.C.–based Capital Alpha Partners, which advises investors on government policy matters, has handicapped five possible outcomes in Iran.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

Those failures handicapped heroic efforts from fire crews on day one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Cognitive fluency and watery judicial eyes aside, Arriaga and I are still handicapped without a PC.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024

We attracted a lot of attention when we traveled because we were poor and Jewish and my mother was handicapped.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Three smart financial thinkers recently did some handicapping for us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

The new Siri is proving to be difficult because Apple came into the AI race by handicapping itself.

From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025

"The rules of golf and handicapping rely on the integrity of players," Moir added.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

You can hit another button and get minimal handicapping information that, essentially, is worthless to someone who really wants to play horse racing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025

We, at our worst, had a certain limit, a certain stage where we exclaimed: "No, this is playing it too low down," because we had scruples that acted like handicapping weights.

From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad