Scorecards

Here are two examples of completed scorecards:

Singles

Stephen is playing off a handicap of 10. The number of stokes he took are in column 'A' and the stableford points per hole are on the right (with 41 points he had a good game!).

4BBB

In this 4 ball better ball, the pair of R Beecroft and J Hill jointly scored 39 points. Because they are playing as a pair, their handicaps are multiplied by 0.75, so they only receive 5 and 11 strokes respectively, i.e. on holes with SI 1-5 Beecroft may take 1 extra stoke and still get two points, but must par the others; similarly Hill may take one extra stroke on holes with SI 1-11 to get two points.

Had they been playing match-play, the score after 18 holes would have been a dead heat, so they would either have had to play (depending on the rules of the day) extra holes or decide the game on count-back - in which case Beecroft and Hill would have won.

4BBB Hambro scoring

This is similar to match-play but requires all 18 holes to be played...so if you're playing badly and loosing by four holes with three left to play, you've still got to soldier on for the three remaining holes!