When you make a new scorecard or event, or when you select an existing player's round that you want to display or change, The Scoring Machine displays that information on the scoreboard.

 

 

Hole Handicap Stroke Allocations

At most golf courses, the “hole handicaps” or “stroke allocations” assigned to holes on either men’s or women’s tees are identical – each of the men’s tees use the same numbers and each of the women’s tees use the same numbers.

The Scoring Machine makes use of that general “rule” to automatically assign hole handicaps to the holes on a tee when entering hole handicaps for another tee. If your golf course has 3 or 4 men’s or women’s tees, automatically adding (or changing) hole handicaps mitigates entering each tee individually.

The individual and team rounds are grouped by scorecard - using a header line that identifies the scorecard by name.

The currently highlighted (active) round has a white background and is usually placed at the top of the scrolling list. You can highlight a round simply by tapping on it.

Use the blue info control to reveal the complete hole-by-hole gross and net results for the competitor.

 

Hole Pars

At most golf courses, the par assigned to holes on either men’s or women’s tees are identical – par for men is the same from every tee and par for women is the same from every tee (and may differ from men’s par).

The Scoring Machine makes use of that convention to automatically assign par to the holes on a tee when entering par for another tee. If your golf course has 3 or 4 men’s or women’s tees, automatically adding (or changing) pars mitigates entering par from each tee separately.

This scorecard area includes the active player's name and is filled with the yardages, pars and hole handicaps in effect for that player.

You can scroll the scorecard with your finger toward the 1st hole on the left or the 18th hole at the far right.

To enter a score for a particular hole, just tap in the line marked Score at that hole. As you enter scores, The Scoring Machine will record your scores and scroll to the next position automatically.

 

The Toolbar

At the bottom of the scoreboard is a toolbar that provides useful features of the scoreboard:

 

Tap Edit to make changes to information shown on the scoreboard - either changes to the scorecard or event or perhaps to a player's information, like their handicap or tees played. (See Using Players, Using Scorecards or Using Events for information about making changes.)
Tap the Dots control to show or hide handicap "dots" on the scoreboard. Dots indicate the number of strokes received by a player at each hole.
Tap the Match Play control to show a special presentation of match play competition results for the selected active competitor on the scoreboard vs. each of the other competitors.
Tap the Leaderboard control to show a special leaderboard-style presentation of competition results. The leaderboard includes team and individual gross, net and allowed scores, skins (if enabled) and putts (if enabled).

 

 

Entering Scores

Start by selecting the player or team round for which you're going to enter scores. The Scoring Machine inserts the blinking cursor at the first hole, and displays the scoring keyboard:

As you type a score at each hole, The Scoring Machine uses that score to calculate any related net score, points or team scores.

The input cursor moves to the next hole, unless you've typed a “1” and it's waiting for the next digit of the score.

Use the other keys on the keyboard to…

 

Finally

When you have entered all the scores for the players or teams, the scoreboard represents the final results:

 

Tap to return to The Scoring Machine's lists of courses, players, scorecards and events.