I have been playing a few years now and still can't seem to decide what marks to put on my scorecard.

Now, I am using a software application and don't have much choice. Just curiously, do you guys have special ways of marking your card for the round that helps with stats, aesthetics, gameplay etc.

Pics would be appreciated. Thanks.

I just slash through my boxes, and put my score on the top left, and how many putts on the bottom right. Below me are my playing partners' scores, and with any remaining boxes I sometimes put GIR or Fairways Hit.

personally, I used dots or -'s for the score card.. just something I piced up from my bro-in-law..

-1 bird, - par *bogie, ** double boggie...

I also track, gir, putts, chips, sandshots... but for those I use good old fashion numbers.

Pete

each box looks like this:

2
4
x x



hole score with putts above. an x for a FIR and a GIR below. i mark a dash if i miss a FIR or GIR.


sometimes i add in the box below it distance from the pin on the green. gives me a good indicator of my accuracy of GIR's or how really bad my short game is.

I'm an over under kind of guy. I put the plus or minus of the hole so for a birdie -1 with a circle around it, bogey +1 with square, pars just your normal -, I also mark GIR by a dot on the top left of the box.

Pete'y

first row i write my name followed by the number i got on that hole
second row i write fair followed by eather a check mark if i hit it, blank if i miss and n/a for par 3
third row i write green followed by a check if i hit it or blank if i miss
fourth row i write putts followed by the number of putts for that hole
bottom half of scorecard used for notes of things i want to remember

I record scores after 9 holes, sometimes after 18...I write the score for each hole, underneath that goes the number of putts, either 1 or 3 or god forbid 4, otherwise blank for a two-putt. I make a note of fairway hits and misses, left or right.

This is at my home course, The Bridges Golf Club. The 4th hardest course in Nor Cal. Pretty short too. You guys should definitely vcome and try playing out here, Ther are like two ravines parallel to each hole, VERY narrow. You lose alot of golf balls.

Haha, I think half of that was to show off the 74.
I just have a scorecard to myself, with the total number for score/putts/chips/sand, and Xs for GIR/Save, blank otherwise.

That's how do it.

Circles and squares (hopefully more circles than squares )

I really like this.....I typically do not ever keep a scorecard at my home course. I keep super detailed statistics for my home course including the average score for each hole, % FIR, %GIR, and % of acceptable drives (one that could not be counted in FIR but were still good tee shots), and average putts for every hole.

I only keep this at my home course and I keep it all in my mind and play the round back when entering the new round's data into my spreadsheet.

I think I am going to create the same thing that I only use for rounds away from my home course and use the scorecard idea that is posted above. It is easy to playback a round from your home course, but that is much tougher when it was the first time playing a new course. I think a new, separate, spreadsheet will help me see how I am doing during my amateur etour events and I can see where I need the most work during competition rounds.

Other than tournaments, I haven't used a scorecard in 10 years!

During tournaments however, I don't do anything fancy, just write the number down and double check it at the end of the round.

As per Kurren for me. Circle the birdies and box the bogeys. Double circles/boxes for eagles and doubles. I also keep track of fairways/GIRs & approach club/putts per green as a bit of an analysis tool. The putts per round is always depressing, but the fairways hit isn't too bad and I hit a lot of GIRs generally to cheer me up. I also like to know what iron I hit in - as 16 GIRs isn't that impressive if they're all 9 irons and wedges.

you beast.

I wish...

I just play fairly regularly with some mid-handi friends and hit off the yellows for simplicity's sake. Even with my distinctly-modest power, 6400 yards is fairly short.

I just put my score for the hole and the putts below it. GIR can be figured off putts and the score, no need to write that in. Sometimes I'll put a check for fwy or X for not but that's not a stat I'm all that concerned with. I can usually remember that if want to later.

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4 2

Mine looks like this...The left dot represents "fairway", the right dot represents "GIR" and the 4 is my score and the 2 is number of putts.

Pretty similar to a previous post above.

I break up my score card into multiple lines.
First Line is approach distance (circle if in the fairway, small x if my tee shot put me into trouble...gave me a resitricted shot)
2nd line is second shot approach distance (par 5s)
3rd line is for greenside bunkers (check for good shot, x for poor one)
4th line is for putts (add a little tick for what I consider makeable birdies...double tick for makeable eagles...inside 12')
5th line is for score. (circle for birdie, double circle for eagle, box for bogey)
6th is for mistakes (missed approach, missed chip, bad putt, etc)

I circle the par to track GIR and circle the ladies yardage for penalties.

Sounds complex....but really isn't.
I then input all that info into my stats program and let iot do the calculations....then I can track where I'm losing strokes, which holes I'm playing well, which ones I'm not....my percentage of GIRs from x yards (approach distance)...from fairway and from rough...my driving distances/hole, etc....

i'm dizzy.

My cardmarks: I check my index before the round starts to determine the max strokes I am allowed per hole.

SCORE-- I circle and square
Fairway checks
GIR Checkmarks
"S" for bunkers hit
Putts used on that hole
Dots for length of putt. (one dot for every 5 feet) (this tells me the quality of my approach shots)

How do I mark my scorecard?................... with a pencil. And I put all 1's on it so stats are easy.

I use a piece of software for stat tracking call Scorecard that lets me print out my own scorecard based on information entered about where I'm playing.

As you can see in the attached image it covers most of the stats you would want to track.

(BTW I am in no way affiliated with Cynical Peak Software.. I just like to geek out on details/stats and I think the software is nice)

What do the U and S stand for in the up & down and sand save columns?

Max strokes on each hole???
Do you stop playing a hole when you get to this #, or finish it out, and what score do you put?

Been keeping stats on Golf Channel Game Tracker about 3 years now, it's pretty interesting to see trends, slumps, and to gather stats....they go a bit overboard, but nice I guess if that's what you want.

I carry separate scorecard, top row (player 1) is for fairways, next row, is for GIR, or Up/Down, 3rd row is putts, bottom row is score relative to par, so - (par) +/- 1, etc....

My partners and I when playing matches, 'dots', or whatever game for the round, keep bets, and =/- par per hole...makes math easy at end :-D

I use Intelligolf to track stats in my rounds. Here in Oz we need to hand our cards in to get our handicap adjusted and also to allow results to be calculated. We cant mark those cards with any additional info.

Just pick up a 2nd card....I do it all the time in tournaments.
One's the official card I pass off to my marker....the second is the one where I track my play.

From the manual

For statistics with “U/S” choices, “U” means “unsuccessful” and “S” means “successful.”
So if you fail to get a sand save, you’d choose “U” in the “Sand Saves” row on that hole.

Exactly how i do mine.With a few minor details.. If i miss a fairway i put a L or r instead of the dot. Same goes for greens.. This way you can keep track of which side you mis more on..Also for greems i can put l or s in place if i came up short or long

I just write the damn number. I don't care how I made birdie/par/bogey just that I did. No point remembering the past

Score, then upper right hand corner putts. I also track Fairways (FW, with a L, R, or check mark) Up/down (X for no, check for yes) and Sand Saves (ssX for no, SS check mark for yes). The whole thing fits on 2 lines of the car, and tells me a nice story of the whole round. If I hit a ball into the water, put a P1 (1 stroke penalty) or P2 for OB (stroke & distance, whcih amount to a 2 shot penalty).