How to keep score in golf
The whole task, once, cleanly: what counts as a stroke, how par works, filling in the card hole by hole, totalling the nines, and gross vs net — with a worked example scorecard.
Read the guide →Guides on scoring, working memory, and why the simplest job on a golf course is the one everybody drops.
The whole task, once, cleanly: what counts as a stroke, how par works, filling in the card hole by hole, totalling the nines, and gross vs net — with a worked example scorecard.
Read the guide →Every row explained on a labelled card: par, the stroke-index (handicap) row, yardages per tee, the OUT/IN/TOT columns, and what course and slope rating actually mean.
Read the guide →Breaking 100, 90 and 80 explained, what the average golfer really shoots, and good beginner and nine-hole scores — with a reference table by skill level.
Read the guide →What the circles and squares mean, and a plain-English glossary — birdie, bogey, eagle, par, gross, net, stroke index and the rest.
Read the guide →What the Rules of Golf actually say when you don't know your score, how to reconstruct a hole honestly, and the three fixes that work because none of them ask you to try harder.
Read the guide →Pencils, clickers, playing partners, big golf apps: every standard fix for losing count fails ADHD golfers in the same specific way. Here's why, and what a fix has to look like to survive a real round.
Read the guide →Core scoring is free on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch, with no account needed to start. Prefer not to download? Play right now in your browser.