Getting back into golf after a few months off, very helpful to keep track of my score this way to know which areas need the most work.
*side note: before I’m accused of slow play/holding people up for logging this info, I was the first to tee off today as a solo at 6:30 AM and I was finished with the round by 9:15
by alexboortz
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Great way to track your stats to find your misses and improve. Great work!
I use theGrint and it does all that and saves it for futrue reference/comparison.
Looks like homework
Nice. I don’t know if you want advice but here’s something I do all the time that helps.
Pick the 1 thing you’re the worst at and practice the crap out of it. Eventually it won’t be the worst thing in your game. But that’s when you pick the “new” worst thing about your game and practice the crap out of that.
I got good really quick doing this.
I track score, putts, and penalties. I also use Arccos, which gives me the distance information on your card. For a while I tracked “anyway shots,” which essentially are the shots that you aren’t committed to, or know isn’t the right shot to play but you do it “anyway.” Hitting the wrong club because I didn’t want to go back to the bag to get the right one, trying to squeeze a shot between some trees instead of just dumping it into the fairway, that kind of thing.
I’m sorry but that’s clunky as hell. Stats are important, won’t deny that, but even for basic stats just use golfpad and you’ll get more outta it then that and you won’t have all the scorecards laying around afterwards.
That’s too much fucking work.
GolfShot app
A lot of work for shooting 89 (not that I’m better)
Pretty much what I was taught by a club pro many years ago but I add drive shape in there too.
impressive !
I feel like an app would’ve worth it at this point
Fairways hit and driving distances line up.
Sorry, I’m just kidding, I couldn’t help myself.
My course has small images of the layouts on the card, I mark where I hit each shot. I usually remember all my shots through a round but it’s good to keep the cards and help identify course management issues.
I’ve never seen the Driver/Approach/Putt distances. I’ll have to see how I may add that to mine! Cool idea. Thx for sharing!
I do something similar, but not as detailed. It’s based on the 18birdies app. I don’t use my phone during the round, so I prefer to write it out on the scorecard.
Name: score, just a number, no circle/boxes (cuz i’d be drawing boxes all day)
(edited to add*) Putts: just a #. I expect a 2 average per hole, highlight the 1-putts and cry at the 3+. My best average was 33, I’m back up to 37 unfortunately.
FIR: check for achieved, directional arrow for miss
GIR: same as FIR
Chip/Bunk: a fraction. The goal is 0/0 per hole, 0/0 per round. I’ve been at 1/0 -> 18/0 since 2026 started!
Penalty: any drop penalty. I lose about 5 per 18, 2 max on 9.
I do the same if I can but only make notes on misses or unexpected results.
Looks like everything my app does but with a pencil
I do something similar. I put my drive distance below the row that shows what par the hole is, then, inside the square where you put your score on each hole, a small black triangle in the southwest corner indicating a fairway hit in regulation and a small black triangle in the northeast corner designating a green hit in regulation.
I don’t know how to add a picture to show my card or I would.
lotta lunatics out there…. welcome to the club
You might want to add left/right arrows to missed fairways so you can keep track of which direction your driver is missing
I love the granularity of tee distance choices. Some folks might think that’s overkill but more should do that many imo.
4 putt bogey from 30 feet on a par 5.
Would have walked straight to the bar, wouldn’t matter if it was 8am. Card would have been thrown away in disgust, stats be damned
4 putt for bogey is brutal lol
What happened on #3? Putting for eagle from 30ft and ending with a bogey is rough.
4 putt after getting on in 2. Thats a kick in the nuts!
I like to do this too, to a lesser extent. One improvement I’d recommend: for fairways and GIRs, instead of Xs for misses, use arrows to indicate where the miss went. That way you can tell if you’re slicing more drives, leaving too many approaches short, etc.
My dad’s nickname is Moose. Love it.
I do similar but specific right/left for fairways misses.
Almost the exact same. Except instead of drive distance at the bottom, I do the length of putt I made.
I use apps with GPS to track all my distances on the course.
The Grint has options for some of this detail – first putt distance – if you wanted to input there. Doesn’t/didn’t translate stats to GHIN, so now I just input there
They have apps for this
I do the same thing when I’m alone or in a twosome. The only one I don’t do is drive length, but I add a made putt length to get an idea of my total feet of made putts reach round. In days like today where I missed 9 putts inside 8 feet, the number is depressingly low lol
Mine is super similar, triangles for triple and squiggly squares for quad. Although I typically take 1st putt length and total putt feet. Will on occasion use arrows with gir and fairways to indicate direction missed.. I also agree score helps me get dialed phone.
Morgan Creek! My parents live on the course, finally a course on I’ve played on this sub
Looks like you bomb it pretty good. 3/14 fairways tho sheessh.
Do a dot top left for Fairway, dot top right for GIR,
Number of putts bottom right, main score in center.
How we used to keep stats in high school
If I’m waiting for you to write all that shit down and pace out your Approach Proximity – I’m pissed. If you leave the green before I do, or close enough – we’re good.
Download the 18Birdies App. I do every bit of these stats, plus more with immensely less work while playing on my Apple Watch.
If you don’t have an Apple Watch. Your phone would suffice. But the app is a great way to put this in a log somewhere, so you don’t have to carry all your scorecards over time.
Just good for thought.
18Birdies in the App Store !! Give it a try.
Honest review: 8.2/10
Arccos does that for me.
What was your big take away from this round?
Try adding the Golf Sidekick 6 so you can see where you are losing strokes
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You drive the ball too far for this score.
It looks like you are better at hitting GIR in the fairway (of course), but only hit three fairways. You might try a 80ish% driver swing and see if you put yourself in better positions to score. Also, you go through way more pencils than me.
Very nice. Also side note, I’ve seen a few clubs that use the exact colour scheme and layout a couple of times, seems like quite the common one