You completed a great round of golf over the morning. You had fun with friends. It was a beautiful day.
Now finish the tournament properly with accurate, legible scorecards. An incomplete, incorrect, or sloppy scorecard can ruin the feeling. Take as much time on your scorecard as you would caring for your favorite clubs.
Tips To Accurate and Quick Scorecards (thanks to Tom King)
- Each foursome / threesome should keep 2 course scorecards, 1 on each cart.
- Get good pencils – and perhaps a couple for each cart. The course and Metro Sr have plenty available. Many errors in your score totals and data entry are caused by writing too faint to read.
- Mark Start Times on both Course Scorecards when the Tee Group takes the tee box (when the first player addresses their ball). Most tee group starts have about 10 minutes separation at tee off, when the group ahead has moved out of range (200 to 250 yards).
- At the end of play, these cards should be exchanged so that the other cart can check a card for legibility and accuracy, for scores, totals, times as well as names and player numbers. If you can’t read a scorecard, we can’t either.
- Any discrepancies should be resolved among the playing group BEFORE transferring the information to the “green card”.
- The guy with the best handwriting should record them on the Universal Scorecard (“green card”).
- Have 1 or 2 players make a quick, final check of scorecard scores and totals, to find transposition errors.
- The most legible Course Scorecard checked for completeness, signed, and turned in with the Universal Scorecard.
It may take a couple extra minutes to do it right, but wouldn’t you rather spend 5 minutes on your scorecard so the 5 hours you spent on the course is recorded accurately?