NET SCORE
The net score is a player's gross score minus the strokes his or her course handicap allows to be deducted during the course of the round.
A golfer may have a gross score of 92 (gross score being the actual number of strokes played), but with a course handicap of 9. So 92 minus 9 equals the net score, in this case 83.
Net score and gross score are often confused because of the closeness of their definitions. Also the fact that net score is created from the gross score leads to the confusion between the two terms.