What device do you use to keep score?

[meenman]

My skycaddie touch and the screen is just small enough that I really cant see my total untl I am done (i only really look at the end of each 9)

[Judah Ben-Hur]

I use my Skycaddie SG5.  It's quick and easy.  The hole score and putts are really big characters and a scroll to the bottom lets you input fairways hit, missed left or right.  I can input the sand bunker and penalties later.  Not that I have a lot of penalties. The paper and pencil method has let me down a few times when I first started.

[Moppy]

I think a lot of the serious long time golfers forget how much a new golfer has to think about just to get around the course. Routines aren't settled. There's lots of frustration, blowup holes, blading it over a green, lost balls, excitement when a ball does what you want, stroke counts over 100 for a round even without penalties. At this point, the less to think about the better.

I am thinking about going with a click counter to keep me honest hole to hole, and coming up with a system for the score card to count stats, like using the other player lines for whatever stat I am working on at the time.

Game Golf would do the trick.

I saw a guy using this the other day, which is what brought up the question. I didn't know what it was until your comment and I googled it. Maybe after I stop hitting so many fat shots, which plays havoc with my iron distances, except I already promised myself a new set of irons once I start hitting them consistently. Right now I might as well be using a set of garden implements with as much digging as I am doing.

I cannot figure out why I like this game so freaking much.

[GangGreen]

I use a golf app on my phone (Golf Shot). I enter my score/stats after each hole (usually on my way to the next tee). I use a pencil/scorecard as a back-up too.

[Spitfisher]

When I play alone Or with a friend or two, I keep track in my head the number of birdies vs bogies. With a low handicap, I don't count pars, just par variables. I do the same with fairways and green in regulation. Sometimes with out keeping track or reviewing it in my mind I just know what I shot, someone could ask what I shot, I respond with I shot 78 many times I am dead in right. The difference for me when I shoot 78 vs a 82 is enormous. It means 4 x 3 putts or a couple wayward drives or penalties OB, water hazard, lost ball etc.

[The Recreational Golfer]

The Other is my head. I know what I shot on each hole but I don't write it down until the round is over. The last thing I want to be aware of is my score -- gets my mind going in wrong directions.

[Fourputt]

The Other is my head. I know what I shot on each hole but I don't write it down until the round is over. The last thing I want to be aware of is my score -- gets my mind going in wrong directions.

I can do that on my home course, or one that I play regularly, but not on a relatively unfamiliar course.  After I play a new course, I can't just sit down and picture the 13th hole unless there is some particular reason that makes it memorable.  I'm more focused on playing my ball than I am on noting the nuances of each hole, and in particular noting which hole is attached to each number.  I may be able to describe most of the holes, but not necessarily in the proper order.  I have to record the scores as I go or I'd just be guessing half the time.

[BuckeyeNut]

I always keep my own scorecard separate from the group to record stats.  I then enter them on the GHIN site online for tracking purposes.

[trickyputt]

I can also use the pencil to clean the grooves on my clubs, and I am sure the graphite helps lower my side spin numbers.

[Phil McGleno]

I can also use the pencil to clean the grooves on my clubs, and I am sure the graphite helps lower my side spin numbers.

There is just one spin so if that worked it would reduce all spin plus it would be against the rules.

[trickyputt]

[quote name="trickyputt" url="/t/79996/what-device-do-you-use-to-keep-score/36#post_1105212"]I can also use the pencil to clean the grooves on my clubs, and I am sure the graphite helps lower my side spin numbers.

There is just one spin so if that worked it would reduce all spin plus it would be against the rules.[/quote] So pencils are illegal? I never would have thought it. Lol- Next thing somebody is gonna tell me is that a steeper swingplane wont effect my ball flight. Oh well, I guess putting sunblock on my driver must only be good for keeping the paint from fading.

[Phil McGleno]

So pencils are illegal? I never would have thought it. Lol- Next thing somebody is gonna tell me is that a steeper swingplane wont effect my ball flight. Oh well, I guess putting sunblock on my driver must only be good for keeping the paint from fading.

Look up Rule 4-2b. You said it would alter your ball flight. A steeper swing plane will not change your ball flight by itself-This is not the topic for here though.

[treebound]

Pencil and scorecard during the round,website when done. My scorecard ends up looking like a doodle pad because I make marks as I play, curving tick marks for slices or fades or draws or hooks, W for water, other graphics or notations for other stuff that happens to the ball. Then I tally up the tick marks and graphics and notes and penalties and write down the strokes per hole along the way as I wait for greens to clear. This also gives me a graphical idea of where my issues are that day. Too many W's and I might as well have gone swimming, too many curving tick marks and I can see where I need work, excessive duffs and flubs readily show up, and strokes between putts and I know it's time for more putter practice. Just don't ask me to keep score for a group, I tend to use up the whole card just for my stuff. Anyway, pencil and paper.

[b101]

In a group it's with pencil and card, but Game Golf for myself due to the stats aspect - it's a great device which I'd thoroughly recommend.