No app required. Install it if you want it.
The organiser operates ScribbleScore. A member opens a link and sees the result. That asymmetry is the product decision everything else follows from.
No app required. Install it if you want it.
A member taps a link in a WhatsApp group and the result opens. That is it. It works for the ninety-year-old life member, for the corporate guest who has never heard of your club, and for the person whose phone is four years old and nearly full.
If somebody wants it on their home screen, they can add it, and it opens full screen like an app with your club's badge on it. That is an option, not a step, and nothing is withheld from the people who never take it.
What a member is never asked to do
- Create an account
- Download an app
- Remember a password
- Keep a second handicap identity
- Enter scores on a phone during the round
- Learn anything new on the first tee
Every one of these is something a competing approach would ask for, and every one of them is a reason a member would rather the club just put the result on the noticeboard.
The result, on the phone they already have
Branded to the club where a club has had that configured, and legible either way.
Opened from a link. No account, no app, no password.
What changes with the club
- Colours and badgeApplied across scoring, results and the home-screen icon.
- The addressscoring.rooiberggolf.co.za rather than a supplier's domain.
- What members doNothing. It is still a link, and still needs no account.
Invented clubs, invented players.
The reasoning, since it looks like a gap
It is the most common question we get, and the answer is deliberate rather than defensive.
GolfRSA is the official World Handicap System authority in South Africa, and HNA operates the technology behind it. They already hold the relationship with the golfer: the official handicap, the score entry, the identity.
Building a second golfer app would ask your members to maintain two overlapping accounts in order to solve a problem that belongs to the person running the competition. Members would not do it, and the ones who did would resent it.
So ScribbleScore does not compete for the golfer. It takes the paper-to-results workflow instead, and leaves the golfer relationship where it already sits. A member does not need to know ScribbleScore exists to benefit from it, which is the strongest version of this product working.
ScribbleScore runs an HNA-compatible workflow. It does not submit scores for official handicap purposes, does not calculate an official Handicap Index, and is not integrated with HNA. See the full boundary.
However your club already talks to members
The result travels through the channel your members already use, rather than through a channel we would prefer.
https://scribblescore.co.za/demoThree ways a result travels
- A linkWhatsApp, email, the club newsletter. Live today.
- The phone's own share sheetStraight from the result screen. Live today.
- A printed codeFor the bar, the tee box and the prize table. Set up for your club during implementation.
Real, scannable codes.
A member's own record
Configured for your club during implementation, because what counts towards a season is a club decision.
| # | 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 player, synthetic season.
What members ask
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.
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.
Who can see the results?
Whoever you share the link with. A competition is only publicly readable once someone with admin rights publishes it; until then it is not reachable from the internet at all.
Published result pages are set not to be indexed by search engines, so a member's name and score do not turn up in a web search for them.
Can we share the result as a QR code?
A printed QR code for the bar, the tee box or the prize table is set up for your club during implementation.
Sharing the result link is available today from any phone, using the device's own share sheet, and works with WhatsApp, email or anything else on the phone.