When do you check your scorecard?

[Smallville]

Ever since I was on a course and played the first six holes, then to avoid a big backup, groups were jumping over to 11, playing thru 18, then going back to 7 and then playing thru 10, I have not added up either nine nor kept track of where I was scoring throughout my round. I used to be anal about it, even keeping track after every hole.

Since I quit keeping track, I have shot my three best scores ever and now regularly shoot in the middle to upper 80s (with some 90s thrown in to keep me from getting too big a head!). I figure I'm gonna get what I get, and if I know I have to get a certain score at the last hole to shoot a personal best, or to avoid shooting a BAAAD score, chances are good I'm gonna choke!

How do you keep track of your scores throughout your rounds?

EDIT: I don't mean there is anything wrong about being anal about keeping track after every hole; I used to do it! And besides I am way to anal about almost everything else and that's not going to change any time soon!

[GregZ]

I simply dont keep track of my overall score during play. I know if im having a terrible day or not and i know that seeing the big number wont do anything for my confidence. At the end i like to add it up and review what i did hole by hole before leaving the course.

A word of advice from the one and only lesson i have ever taken was that the only shot that matters is the one your on. Forget about the shank you just did and the 5 snowmen on the score card, concentrate only on this one shot.

Hope that relates.

G

[Fourputt]

I know generally if I'm doing well or not, but I don't add anything until I finish. When I'm playing really well, I don't need to, because if I'm making a lot of pars with just a couple of bogies, it's pretty easy to track that. I just sort of automatically keep a running total of how much over par I am in my head. I just don't usually think much about it while I'm on the course.... I try to play each shot as it comes, then I do the same with the next one.

I've been surprised at times by ending up with a much better score than I expected. I like those surprises too much to spoil the fun by totaling too early.

[CG031]

I always check how many over par I am after every hole or two. It's just the way I play. I like to know where I stand. I don't usually crack from the pressure or anything, but some it bothers them.

[lucky7]

When i get off the 18th hole i add it up. I almost killed my friend the other day when he told me i was 2 over going into the 9th hole :(

[Franco!]

I don't add things up officially until the end.
I usually know where I am after every hole though.

[iacas]

I don't consciously stay aware of my scorecard, but since I'm generally +/- 6 of par, it's not like I don't know where I stand anyway.

You can know where you stand, what you need to shoot, etc. if you can handle the pressure of knowing. If you can't, you've gotta try to trick yourself into not counting, I suppose.

[949 Golf]

I keep track in my head.

[Smallville]

I don't consciously stay aware of my scorecard, but since I'm generally +/- 6 of par, it's not like I don't know where I stand anyway.

It's a little easier to know where you stand without checking your scorecard for people who shoot as well as you do; it's hard not to know you parred 5 straight holes before you got a bogey, then got 4 more pars and then you got a birdie, then you finished with 8 straight pars. I thought I had fool-proofed the thread by giving plenty of options, guess I messed that up huh?! For myself, and some of us others who don't shoot almost nil handicaps or even high single-digit handicaps, it's a little easier not to know where you are when you shoot a bogey, par, double, bogey, triple, par, par, par, bogey, double, etc., all the way through a round. Not that it's a bad thing, and not complaining that I don't shoot as well as a lot of the people on this board; if I was good enough to know I was shooting approximately par all the time, then I'd be changing my vote to option #3 real quick!

[iacas]

I thought I had fool-proofed the thread by giving plenty of options, guess I messed that up huh?!

My answer wasn't a criticism in any way of the poll (which I didn't notice until now - I guess #3 is closest, so I chose that). I was just answering the question. Wasn't trying to brag in any way either - just answering the question.

[firstcut]

I check at the turn and then at the end.

I used to play with a guy who consistantly shot under par. He didn't really keep score, just counted how far up/down he was at the end of each hole.

[Smallville]

iacas-

Didn't take it as criticism, just an observation and realizing I didn't think the poll through as well as I should have first. All good.

[Billiam]

I keep track hole by hole

[gsu_paintballer]

I add it up after nine. SOMETIMES I add up every three holes. I find that makes me push for a certain total score though.

[iQuest Golfer]

The beauty of a good Sun Mountain V1 cart is the ability to have the score card right at your fingertips. It's easier to keep all my stats now than it was when carrying the bag on the back.

[N.V.M.]

The beauty of a good Sun Mountain V1 cart is the ability to have the score card right at your fingertips. It's easier to keep all my stats now than it was when carrying the bag on the back.

pretty sure most 3 wheelers have that. and many two wheelers for that matter.

[Jay-Bird]

How can you not know where you stand at any given time? I always know where I am in relation to par. I mark the scorecard with the number of strokes per hole and I note my +/- very small in the same box. Sometimes I even circle birdies and square bogeys. But for me, whether it's a great round or a struggle, I always try to tell myself to "concentrate on what you're doing, not HOW you're doing."

[Smallville]

How can you not know where you stand at any given time?

If you don't mark your +/- very small in the box you write your score and don't circle birdies and square bogeys (what do you do for doubles and triples or if you happen to get an eagle?) and just write your score and go on, it's pretty easy not to know EXACTLY where you stand at any given time. I mean, you know if you are shooting decent or crappy but not an exact score. I know how I did in relation to par after I play every hole (I definitely know when I get a birdie, for example) but after a few holes, the birdie is still remembered, but the pars, bogeys and doubles (and maybe worse!) are just a number on the card that I don't worry about til I get done. Easy for me, maybe difficult for some if your scores don't tend to jump all over the place. I'd say, the closer you shoot to par, the harder it would be to NOT know where you stand at any given time because you are only talking maybe a few over par; if you shoot mainly pars, it's easier to remember those few bogeys and birdies. Oh to have that problem!