Guides
How to use Countback
🎪 Running the event
Organiser guide
The whole event in the order it happens: course, entries, packs, the morning switch, results.
🙋 On the desk
Registration desk
Check teams in, read out codes, fix a substitute's handicap — and nothing you can break.
✏️ Keeping the score
Recording scores
Your team's card on your phone: gross shots in, points worked out, dead spots handled.
👀 Playing or watching
Following the day
The live leaderboard, the course card and the clubhouse screen — no code, no sign-in.
📱 Everyone
Put it on your home screen
Ten seconds on iPhone or Android, and Countback opens like an app — even with no signal.
Countback runs the live side of a golf day: entries, team packs, check-in, live scoring and results.
📋 The one rule: the club's signed paper cards remain the official record. Countback is the live board everyone watches — not the referee.
🧭 Which guide is for me?
| You are… | You need | Your guide |
|---|---|---|
| 🎪 Running the event | The organiser code | Organiser guide |
| 🙋 On the registration desk | The desk code and link | Registration desk guide |
| ✏️ Keeping your team's score | Your team's code (in the team pack) | Recording scores |
| 👀 Playing or watching | Nothing — it's all public | Following the day |
📱 Whoever you are, it works best from your home screen — ten seconds to set up: Put Countback on your home screen.
🔑 Codes, not accounts
Nobody has an account or a password. Everything opens with a short code:
- 🗝️ Organiser code — opens everything, for every event. Guard it.
- 🎪 Event code — opens one event's admin.
- 🙋 Desk code — opens the registration desk and nothing else. Safe to hand to a volunteer.
- ✏️ Team code — opens one team's scorecard and nothing else. It's printed in that team's pack.
💡 Type any code at the site's front door and it takes you to the right place. Codes are not case sensitive.