Medal Play
The purpose of providing team scoring capabilities is to allow you to compute and display results of competition - not only between players, but between teams of players. The Medal Scores Window provides a way to rank competitors (whether individuals or teams), break ties, and compute "skins."
To open a new empty Medal Scores Window, choose New Medal Window
from the Golf menu or type
L (Shift-Command-L)
from your keyboard.
You can quickly
open a new Medal Scores Window by clicking the New Medal button on the toolbar.
Medal Scores Window
To add a player's score to the Medal Scores window, just drag the player's icon from a scorecard, a Team window or drag a selected previously saved round from an open Player document window to the Medal Scores window.
To add a team's score to the Medal Scores window, just drag the icon for the team's round into the Medal Scores window.
After dragging all of the rounds we're interested in comparing into the Medal Scores window, in our example the scores for our four players would look like this:
Medal Scores Window with 4 Players' Scores
You may drag as many rounds to the window as you wish. The window can be scrolled up or down to display as many results as necessary. The colored "tee marker" helps identify which tee each player played from.
Placement Selection Buttons
The number to the left of each competitor's score is their placement relative to the other scores in the window (net placements are shown in italics). You can compute placement according to gross score, net score, gross or net score (but not both - giving priority to either gross or net scores), or both by clicking the appropriate placement button. The placements of each competitor will be re-calculated as required.
Note: Team scores which have already had handicap strokes applied hole-by-hole during their calculation are treated as "gross" scores - they have no net score.
Sort Buttons
To sort the competitors into order based on their gross or net score, click one of the Sort buttons. (Note that competitors without net scores will sort last).
Tie-Breaker Selector
If you want to have Golf Personal break ties, select one of the tie-breaking methods from the Tie-Breaker selector. If you want to allow ties to remain unbroken, just select "none" from the menu. The available tie-breaking methods are:
- Last 9/6/3/1 holes - The USGA's recommended method of breaking ties - the best score for the last 9 holes, then the last 6 holes, then the last 3 holes, then the last hole.
- Backward from last hole - Beginning with the last hole, going backward, the first hole at which one competitor's score is lower than the other's designates the winner.
- Forward from first hole - Beginning with the first hole, going forward, the first hole at which one competitor's score is lower than the other's designates the winner.
- Most Handicap - The player or team with the highest handicap allowance is the winner.
- Least Handicap - The player or team with the lowest handicap allowance is the winner.
"Skins" Calculation Checkboxes
If you have scores available for two or more players, Golf Personal can calculate "skins" - holes on which one player's score is better than all of the other players. If you want to display skins, click the Skins checkbox. If you want to display net skins - calculated after applying handicap strokes, click the Net checkbox too. Golf Personal will highlight the holes at which a "skin" was won.
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