(Brisbane, AUSTRALIA (March 9, 2020) – MPower MSL (ASX:MPW) (MSL) today announced the successful Stage 1 completion of the implementation of the World Handicap System (WHS) across Australia, Norway, Iceland, Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
The WHS is a joint initiative of golf’s two international governing bodies, The R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA). These two bodies have worked together with the world’s major handicapping authorities to develop a single handicap system for the game to enable as many golfers as possible to obtain and maintain a handicap index and use that handicap to compete or play a casual round with players from other regions on a fair basis.
“At the end of January Australia was the first country to go live with WHS outside of the USGA. More than 400,000 golfers were successfully re-handicapped on GOLF Link, Australia’s national computerised handicapping service, across millions and millions of rounds of golf, with the data synced and updated on the Golf Australia website,” Nick Thornton, General Manager of MPower Golf. “We have also successfully implemented WHS across a number of European Golf Federations through our GolfBox entity across February and March, bringing the number of our customers’ golfers re-handicapped by WHS to over 1 million.”
MSL will be facilitating further implementations of WHS for other European golf federations, including Denmark and Switzerland over the coming months.
MPower MSL is a global provider of hosted, SaaS and on-site solutions to clients in the sport, leisure, and hospitality sector. We serve more than 1,200 organisations in over 25 countries across APAC, EMEA and North America. With a single view of the customer, MSL remove the silos that traditionally exist across the operational layer and empowers operators to perform the appropriate strategic analysis required to deliver better products and services and new levels of brand loyalty in real time.
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MPower MSL (ASX:MPW) is transforming the sports, leisure and hospitality sectors globally. Some of the world’s iconic sports and entertainment companies and PGAs rely on MSL every day. We create the systems that connect every department of a business from point of sale and club membership to marketing, financials and the workforce to deliver real time visibility on staff levels, customer engagement, profits and revenue. It’s these pieces that work together that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary memories.
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