One person, no cover
The formulas live in one head. Anyone else can photograph cards and settle exceptions in ScribbleScore, because the rules are in the competition setup rather than in somebody's memory.
The same crowd, the same formats, none of the spreadsheet
A society is the same forty people, playing the same formats, at a different course each month, organised by one person who is not being paid for it. Everything here is aimed at that person.
The society problem
The spreadsheet works. That is the trouble with it.
Most societies are run off one spreadsheet that one person understands. It works right up until they are away, and then nobody can produce a result.
A different course every month
A new card with a new par and stroke index each time. ScribbleScore reads those off the card itself, so a new course is not a setup job before you can score anything.
Everyone wants the result at the bar
Not on Tuesday. The result is published from a link while people are still in the clubhouse, and nobody has to install anything to open it.
Set it up once
Your formats and your allowances, month after month.
Societies tend to run the same two or three formats forever, with a house allowance that was decided years ago and is not up for debate. Set that once and reuse it.
- Four-ball alliance, properlyChoose how many scores count on each hole, from one to four. Every option is covered by automated tests.
- Your roster carries overImport the society list once from a CSV. Handicaps are updated as they change, not retyped every outing.
- Countback settles the bar argumentLast nine, last six, last three, last hole, applied the same way every time, and marked on the board when it decides something.
Live in the productLive in the product
Format
Handicap allowance
One result per player.
| # | Player | Plays off | Points | Back 9 | Back 6 | Back 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T. Bhengu | 8 | 35 | 17 | 12 | 6 |
| T2 | A. Fourie | 13 | 33 | 16 | 10 | 5 |
| T3 | S. Dlamini | 10 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| 4 | P. Nel | 17 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
Two results are level on points. Countback has separated them on the back nine, and the ranks are marked so nobody has to wonder why.
Switch either. Everything recalculates.
Across the season
The order of merit somebody maintains by hand
Almost every society runs a season-long standing, and almost every one of them is a spreadsheet tab nobody else can edit.
| # | Player | Played | Best 6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T. Bhengu | 9 | 214 |
| 2 | S. Dlamini | 8 | 206 |
| 3 | A. Fourie | 10 | 201 |
| 4 | P. Nel | 7 | 188 |
| 5 | N. Adams | 9 | 184 |
Synthetic. Configured to your society's own counting rules during implementation.
Be clear about what this one is.
Individual outings, their results and their full history are live in the product today, and every one exports to CSV. The season roll-up above is configured for your society as implementation work, because best-six, best-eight, drop-two and count-them-all are all in use and none of them is a default.
Pricing
What a society pays
Quoted on your society — your field, and how often you play — rather than sold off a price list. Tell us the shape of your outings and we quote it plainly.
Recurring society
Quotedper society, sized to your outings
Scanning, exception review, scoring, live results and the published leaderboard · sized to your field and how often you play
One-off golf day
Quotedonce, for the event
The same product a club runs, set up for your day · sized to your field
A society of forty playing once a month, and a society of sixty playing twice, are different amounts of work — which is exactly why the quote follows your outings instead of a table.
Questions
What society organisers ask
Which competition formats are supported?
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.
Do golfers need to install an app?
No. That is a deliberate design decision, not a limitation. A player opens a link in their browser and sees the result. No account, no download, no password.
If someone wants it on their home screen they can add it, and it opens full screen like an app. That is their choice, not a requirement, and nothing is withheld from people who do not.
What is a player-round?
One player's score processed for one round. A four-player card is four player-rounds.
We price on player-rounds rather than on competitions because that is what actually varies. A club running one big monthly medal and a club running four small midweek competitions do a similar amount of work, and should not pay wildly different amounts for it.
How are ties broken?
By countback, in the standard sequence: the last nine, then the last six, then the last three, then the last hole.
If two players or teams are still exactly level after all four, they share the rank and the next rank is skipped, so two players tied on first are both shown as first and the next is third. The leaderboard marks a result where countback did the separating, so nobody has to wonder why one player is above another on the same points.
So does using ScribbleScore replace our handicap system?
No. Keep your handicap system exactly as it is. ScribbleScore handles the paper-to-results workflow: reading the cards, resolving exceptions, applying the competition rules and publishing a reviewed result.
Golfers do not need a second handicap identity, and they should not be asked for one.
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