keeping score in a tournament,

[khale]

I have a basic question but would like to know before going to my first tournament this weekend. Do we keep our own score, each keeps every body scores or one person keep scores for every body?

Thanks,

[TaylorMadeTaylor]

You almost always keep your own score.

[jamo]

  TaylorMadeTaylor said:

You almost always keep your own score.

I've actually always had it the opposite way. Well, you officially keep someone else's score but you do (or at least should) record your own at the bottom of your scorecard.

[Harmonious]

You NEVER keep your own score. Generally, you are given your own scorecard, then you exchange scorecards on the first tee. Mark your opponent's score on the card, but there is usually a place along the bottom for you to record your own score as well. At the end of the round, it is easy to verify that your score is correct by comparing your card with the numbers you wrote on the bottom of your opponent's card. It's actually easier than it sounds. Sign your opponent's card, attest your own card, and you are done.

[Blades4me]

  Harmonious said:

You NEVER keep your own score. Generally, you are given your own scorecard, then you exchange scorecards on the first tee. Mark your opponent's score on the card, but there is usually a place along the bottom for you to record your own score as well. At the end of the round, it is easy to verify that your score is correct by comparing your card with the numbers you wrote on the bottom of your opponent's card. It's actually easier than it sounds. Sign your opponent's card, attest your own card, and you are done.

Thats what I do also. I've found it to be a good idea if there are any questions as to score at the end of the round.

[Leftygolfer]

I haven't played competitively that much but someone else keeps your official score. I'd keep my own as well just to be sure it is accurate.

[Yukari]

I think it depends on the tournament. If it is just a club tournament, it depends on how the club administers its tournament. I had where one person has the official scorecard for the group. If it is more PGA style run tournament, you have to exchange your scorecard with your playing partner and each keep track of the others.

Was it Jesper Parnevik that did not exchange the scorecard a few years back in the British Open and both players got DQ'd???

[i-Guy]

  Harmonious said:

You NEVER keep your own score. Generally, you are given your own scorecard, then you exchange scorecards on the first tee. Mark your opponent's score on the card, but there is usually a place along the bottom for you to record your own score as well. At the end of the round, it is easy to verify that your score is correct by comparing your card with the numbers you wrote on the bottom of your opponent's card. It's actually easier than it sounds. Sign your opponent's card, attest your own card, and you are done.

Exactly...this is how it has always been done in any tournament I have played in whether it was a city tournament or FSGA...

  Harmonious said:

Mark your opponent's score on the card, but there is usually a place along the bottom for you to record your own score as well.

And usually the portion along the bottom is perforated so you can tear it off when you go to check your score against what the other player recorded.

[DaSportsGuy]

I've never played in a tournament in which you keep your own score.

If it's a match we usually exchange with our man on the other team. If it's any other tournament we usually pass to the right or something on the first tee.

It's always a good idea to keep your score on the bottom of your card though to make sure their are no disputes at the end of the round on what you had.

[TN94z]

  jamo said:

I've actually always had it the opposite way. Well, you officially keep someone else's score but you do (or at least should) record your own at the bottom of your scorecard.

This. There is the scorecard for your playing partner where you write down his scores, and then there is a small section where you can keep up with your own score.

This is the only way I have ever seen it done. I don't know of any tournament where you keep your own score.....maybe a local scramble or something.

[TaylorMadeTaylor]

Well, I guess I am wrong. Every tournament I've played in we kept our own score, but I haven't played in any big ones, just local ones and there always at the same course.

[Shorty]

  TaylorMadeTaylor said:

You almost always keep your own score.

You NEVER keep your own score. It is crazy to suggest otherwise. You swap cards on the first tee or first green/second tee. Have you not noticed how a scorecard has places where the "Player" and "Marker" sign after a round? Usually, after 9 holes you check with your marker to make sure you've both got the same score and again after 18. That's when you sign.

[Fourputt]

  TaylorMadeTaylor said:

Well, I guess I am wrong. Every tournament I've played in we kept our own score, but I haven't played in any big ones, just local ones and there always at the same course.

I've played Men's Club tournaments for 21 years on my home course and we have

always exchanged cards before the start of the round. No matter how honorable the game of golf is, there are still unscrupulous people who will try to put one over if you give them a chance. I doubt that it would be a common thing, in fact I like to believe that it would be quite rare, but just as there are a few players who pad their handicaps, so too are there those who would shave a stroke here and there to move up the leaderboard if there was no oversight. You exchange cards at the start, when finished you both get together and double check your scores, resolve any disagreement, sign and attest both cards, then turn them in to the scorer. Only when the scorecard is signed, attested and delivered to the hands of the committee is the round actually over.

[khale]

Thanks everybody, I think I have an idea of how this works. Although my tournament got cancelled because of expected rain. I am in a small club with about 70 people and only about 20 to 24 people playing in one tournament so it is easy to cancel.