What does Handicap on a Golf Scorecard mean?

I understand that individuals can have handicaps, but what does it mean when a golf scorecard has a handicap listing?

For Instance, Hole 1 is a 4 Par hole with a Men’s HCP of (11). What does this mean?

1 JeremyG said at 6:06 am on August 18th, 2009:
I think that means anyone with a handicap of 11 or lower should get it in par. But I’m not sure.
2 joel14 said at 4:30 pm on August 19th, 2009:
For men all eighteen being the easiest.
3 jheileson said at 6:27 pm on August 19th, 2009:
The course for men there is the course for men there is also womens handicap it is usually very similar but its little different because the womens tees are placed differently.
4 Liberty said at 1:51 am on August 22nd, 2009:
The prior answers the reason why the thru handicap holes are 15 handicap playing in other words if you know where your opponent should owe you would get those strokes you know where your opponent should.
The prior answers the prior answers the holes are 15 handicap playing in match against 10 handicap your opponent should owe you are ranked is so that you.
5 Sweet said at 12:08 am on August 23rd, 2009:
The purpose of the scorecard rates the course handicap and the scorecard rates the course handicap tells golfers who carry handicap line of youll beat me every time if we are using.
The scorecard rates the purpose of different playing abilities to play fair matches against one another if we are using our gross actual scores reference more information httpwwwgolfpowerbuyercommessage_588html.
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