[triardwonvada]

I am not much of a stats kind of guy. I keep score, and about the only other stat I might keep is what my first putts are (bogey, par, birdie, what ever) for, on each green. That said today I golfed with a guy today who had made his own score card. I have seen a lot custom score cards, but this one was unique, in that it told a story of how he played each hole.

It appeared to been developed on a data/spread sheet of some sort. It was on an 8X11 sheet of paper, folded into quarters. Left of center on the page were the numbers 1-50, with a space between 25 & 26 for folding purposes. On the right of center side of the page were the numbers 51-100, again with a space between 75 & 76. Each of those numbers corresponded with each stroke, or putt taken. The numbers were in a column about a 1/4" wide, and there was another column about 2" wide next to each number.

As an example hole one is a 380 yard hole. Here's how he scored that hole on his card.

1. 380, D, Fairway
2. 110, PW, Green
3. 12', P, short.
4. 1' P, holed. *

His score card showed (1.) It was 380 yard hole, he used his driver, and landed the ball in the fairway (2.) He had 110 to the green, had a 270 yard drive in the fairway, hit a PW, landing the ball on the green. (3.) Had a 12' putt, used his putter, left it short. (4.) Had a 1' putt, used his putter, holed out. The (*) signified this hole was complete. That he had used 4 strokes to complete hole #1. Hole #2 would start at the #5 on his score sheet. At the end of 18 holes he finished up on the number 83. He had shot an 83 this day.

Not sure I would use anything like this, but it does amaze me of what some folks will think up to help themselves enjoy the game. He gave me a blank copy of his custom card, which can easily be produce, and printed out. Heck why not.