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Opening a New Scorecard

Although you may usually want a scorecard for a particular player, Golf Personal allows you to display a blank scorecard with no players on it one which you can add players to later, if you wish.

You can open a blank scorecard by choosing New Scorecard from the Golf menu or entering S from your keyboard.

To open a new, empty scorecard window even faster, you can click on the New Scorecard button on the toolbar.

A Blank Scorecard Window

The new blank scorecard on your desktop is ready to have one or more players added to it, but first, let's look in more detail at all the parts of the scorecard.

The Club Selector

The club selector includes all of the Club document files that Golf Personal knows about. Click the selector to choose the club where you played.

The Course Selector

Once you've selected the right club, the course selector will change to reflect the courses available at that club, and you can choose the course you played.

The Tee Selectors

There is a tee selector popup for each side you played. You set the front side tee selector to the tees you played and the back side tee selector will automatically be set to match it. You can set the back side tee selector independently.

The Nine Selectors

Usually, you don't need to adjust the front or back nine selectors except when the course has more than two nines, you played the nines in an unusual order (like backwards) or you played only nine holes. For a nine-hole round, select "none" from the back nine selector and enter your scores on the front side of the scorecard.

When you select the club, course, nines and tees on a scorecard, they apply to the rounds of all the players on the scorecard. If you want to record rounds for players who played together, but from different tees, you'll need a scorecard for each.

The Date and Time Entry

Golf Personal needs to know the date on which a round of golf was played to analyze your play correctly. If you play more than one round in a day, it needs to know the order of the rounds, which you can indicate by providing the time you teed off.

When you open a new scorecard, the date is automatically set to today's date. You can adjust the date forward or backward by clicking in the top or bottom of the little arrows to the right of the date. You can also type a date in the date field. For a shortcut, you can just key the day (like "4") and tab and the date will be set to that day (i.e.: the 4th) in the current month.

You need to enter a time only if you are recording more than one round played on the same date. Just type in the time you teed off (like "8:30 AM") and don't forget the "AM" or "PM" part.

Yardages, Pars and Handicaps

When you've selected the club, course, nines and tees, the scorecard is updated to show the appropriate yardages, pars and hole handicaps for your round. The hole numbers are shaded with the color of the tees you've selected.

Rating and Slope

The course rating and the Slope rating are also shown for the course and the tees you have selected. For certain handicapping methods, these are the values used to compute a "Course Handicap" for each player on this scorecard.

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