Awni K. Kaloti is an established presence in the South Florida entrepreneurial community who heads Global American Consulting and manages transactions in precious metals ranging from silver to platinum. An avid golfer, Awni K. Kaloti enjoys playing in the Miami and Orlando areas, and maintains a 19 handicap.
Designed to promote fairness and equity on the golf course, the handicapping system is one that enables golfers to accurately compare their relative performances when playing against better or less skilled golfers. The lower handicap is better, with a player who has an 18 handicap typically shooting 90 across 18 holes and a player with a 10 handicap shooting 82.
Determining this handicap typically requires playing between 12 and 20 rounds on a course and maintaining a record of the total scores for each round. This number is adjusted to the specific difficulty of the course and elements such as the course slope rating. Various calculations are then performed to arrive at the individual handicap.
With this mathematically derived system in place, players of widely varying skill levels in a competitive event can compete in a way that is meaningful. For example, if a person with a 20 handicap shoots an 85 on a par 72 course (7 under his or her handicap) against a player with a 10 handicap who shoots an 84 (2 over his or her handicap), the player with the higher handicap would win the match.
Since 1984, Awni K. Kaloti has served as the owner and director of Kaloti International Corp, an international food distribution company that specializes in specialty meats. Outside of his professional work, Awni K. Kaloti enjoys golfing at different courses in the Miami and Orlando areas. He currently maintains a golf handicap of 19.
For more than a century, golf handicaps have been relied on to allow players of different skill levels to compete against one another. Handicaps require players to win by a certain amount of strokes to get a victory. For example, a golfer with a handicap of 5 has to beat a golfer with a handicap of 15 by at least 10 strokes to win.
Handicaps are determined by how many strokes over or under par a player finishes on a course. A golfer that finishes 10 strokes over par on a course has a handicap of 10. Golfers compare their net scores, which are determined by total strokes minus the handicap, when playing with a handicap system. It should be noted that when traveling to other courses, the course difficulty becomes a factor in determining the handicap.