A club runs the same competitions every week, for members who know each other, with prizes and a handicap system and a committee that has to stand behind the result. That is a different problem from a one-off event, and this page is about that difference.
A single medal day is manageable. A calendar of them, run by different people, with a committee reviewing the outcome, is where the cost actually sits.
The person at the desk on Saturday is not the person there on Wednesday. Roles, a fixed workflow and a gate that will not let a card through with an open must-fix exception are what make the two days produce the same quality of result.
When a result carries a prize, somebody eventually queries it. Every correction is kept with who made it and when, and the photograph of the signed card stays attached to the result.
Competitions are not independent events. They feed an honours board, an order of merit and a set of club records that somebody is maintaining by hand.
A scorer can photograph cards, settle exceptions and mark a card as checked. Only an admin can lock it and publish the result. That is enforced by the software, not agreed in a meeting.
The person photographing cards at the desk
Switch role and watch the publish control change.
A club keeps records for decades. Software does not always last that long, so the export is deliberately complete.
| player | playing_handicap | h1 | h1_pts | … | h18 | h18_pts | gross | points | back9 | back6 | back3 | last | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. Bhengu | 8 | 4 | 3 | … | 5 | 2 | 81 | 35 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| A. Fourie | 13 | 5 | 2 | … | 5 | 2 | 88 | 33 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| S. Dlamini | 10 | 4 | 3 | … | 5 | 2 | 85 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| P. Nel | 17 | 5 | 2 | … | 6 | 1 | 98 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
The real export's columns, in the real order. Copy it into a spreadsheet.
Individual competitions and their history are live in the product today, and every one exports. Rolling those into a season-long order of merit is configured to your club's own series rules as part of a Club Platform implementation, because no two clubs count a season the same way.
Priced on player-rounds a month, not on how many competitions you run.
up to 500 player-rounds a month · about 125 cards
up to 1,000 player-rounds a month · about 250 cards
Larger groups or volumes · quoted on the season
Yes, and this is enforced by the software rather than by agreement. There are three roles, and all of them are committee members or staff you invite — golfers never scan or touch anything.
A scorer, a staff member you invite, can photograph cards, resolve exceptions and mark a card as checked. Only an admin can lock a card or publish the result, invite staff, or change what someone else is allowed to do. The person who checked a card and the person who published the result are both recorded.
Superadmin is a protected role rather than a more powerful one: an admin can already do everything, and what the superadmin role adds is that their own role cannot be changed from the users screen, so a club cannot demote its last owner by accident.
As many as you need. Staff accounts are not charged for; the price is based on the volume of player-rounds you process, not on how many people help you process them.
Four, each with its rules, rounding and countback behaviour covered by automated tests: individual Stableford, four-ball alliance, two-ball alliance (better ball) and combined Stableford.
For the alliance format you choose how many scores count on each hole, from one to four. The handicap allowance percentage is adjustable per competition, so a format played off 85% is scored off 85%.
If your club plays a format that is not on the list, ask: formats are added on request, and we only list one publicly once its behaviour is under test, because a format that is nearly right is worse than one we do not offer.
Yes, as a percentage across the competition, with the common ones a tap away. The playing handicap is calculated from the exact handicap and the allowance, rounded half away from zero, and the leaderboard shows what each player is playing off.
Change the allowance after cards are in and every result is recalculated. You do not re-enter anything.
You do. The competitions, the cards, the scores and the results are your club's records.
Every competition exports to CSV, with a row per player, the gross and points for every hole, the totals, the countback figures and the rank. That export is deliberately complete: if you ever stop using ScribbleScore, you leave with your records in a format anything can read.