How to Use the Printable Scorecards
Print one sheet per game you plan to play. Each card covers a single round, so if the group fancies a Nassau and a round of Skins on the same day, take two sheets out with you. On the first tee, write every player's name across the top before anyone swings — it takes ten seconds and saves a lot of squinting later. Agree the stakes in the same breath and write the number down where everyone can see it: a pound a hole, a fiver on the front nine, or whatever the group settles on. Most money arguments come from a stake nobody actually pinned down, so pin it down first and there is nothing left to argue about.
As you play, mark the points or the holes on each row as they happen rather than trusting your memory to hold eighteen holes' worth of scoring until the turn. A pencil beats a pen — greens get damp and mistakes get rubbed out. When you reach the last green, add up the columns, read the totals off the bottom of the card, and settle straight from those figures. Because the maths is already on the paper, nobody has to relitigate what happened on the 4th while you are loading the boot of the car.
Printing Tips
A scorecard is only any use if the columns still line up when it lands in your hand, so it pays to print it properly.
- Set the print dialog to 100% or "Actual size" — never "Fit to page", which quietly shrinks the grid and knocks the columns out of true.
- Black-and-white is perfectly fine. The sheets are designed to read in plain mono, so there is no need to burn through colour ink.
- Run them on card stock, or the heaviest paper your printer will take. It survives a back pocket, a damp glove and a full eighteen far better than thin copier paper.
- Print a few spares and leave a couple in the bag and one in the glovebox. A last-minute fourth then never leaves you scrounging for a card in the car park.
Which Scorecard for Which Game
Four games, four sheets — grab the one that matches what you are actually playing:
- Running a front-nine, back-nine and overall three-way bet? Reach for the Nassau sheet.
- Every hole worth its own pot, carrying over to the next when a hole is halved? That is the Skins sheet.
- Rotating a partner each hole and letting one player go it alone for a bigger stake? Use the Wolf sheet.
- Handing out points for nearest the green, first on and first in the hole? The Bingo Bango Bongo sheet keeps the running tally.