Abstract: A golf handicap calculator is provided including a housing and a display mounted on the housing and adapted to depict numerical characters. Also included is a numeric keypad mounted on the housing for entering numeric data along with a plurality of function keys. Positioned within the housing is a controller that is connected between the display, the keypad, and the function keys. The controller serves to display and store a handicap index upon the depression of one of the function keys with the subsequent entry of a number via the keypad, to display and store a slope upon the depression of one of the function keys with the subsequent entry of a number via the keypad, and to calculate and display a handicap from the handicap index and the slope.