✏️ Keeping the score
Recording scores
One of your team keeps the card on a phone. Everything you need is in your team pack email:
- 🔗 the link
- 🔑 your team's code
📱 Before the day, put Countback on that phone's home screen — ten seconds, here's how. It's what makes the no-signal parts of the course a non-event.
🔓 Getting in
Open Record scores on the event page and enter your code. It opens your team's card and nobody else's — and you stay signed in all day. Hop to the leaderboard and back as often as you like; you won't be asked for the code again.
Two locks to know about. Both are deliberate:
- 🌅 Scoring opens on the morning. Before that the card is read-only — the screen says so. Nothing you type the week before is saved.
- ✅ If there's a registration desk, check in first. Checking in is what unlocks your card.
⛳ During the round
The card opens on the hole you're up to. For each player, type their gross — the strokes they actually took. No handicap maths. The same number you'd write on the paper card.
The points are worked out for you, right beside the box — with each player's shots for the hole and their running total on their line.
- 🚫 Pick-up, or didn't finish the hole? Leave the box blank. A blank counts as no return. Never type a made-up number.
- 🔁 Mis-typed? Overwrite it, or blank it out. Each hole saves on its own.
- ➡️ "Save & next hole" as you walk off the green. The strip along the top shows what's in — tap any hole to jump back.
📵 No signal? Keep going
Parts of the course have no signal. Keep entering scores.
The screen will say "saved on this phone". Everything is kept locally and syncs by itself the moment you're back in range. A small dot marks holes still waiting to sync.
✅ You will not lose a score to a dead spot.
🏁 After the 18th
When every hole is filled in and synced, the Submit my scores button lights up.
- 📮 Press it. Your card locks, so nothing gets nudged accidentally in the clubhouse.
- 😬 Made a mistake? Take my card back, fix it, submit again.
🤝 Individual competitions only
Once everyone in your playing group has submitted:
- ✅ Each of you presses Approve the group's cards — you're agreeing each other's scores, the way you'd countersign a paper card.
- ⚠️ Something wrong? Press Something's wrong instead. Every card in the group reopens to be corrected.
- 🏅 When all of you have approved, your scores show a ✓ on the leaderboard.
📋 The one rule
The app is the live board, not the referee. The club's signed paper card is the official record — fill it in and hand it in as normal. If the app and the paper ever disagree, the paper wins.