Scorecard Sheet
Pick a card, set the names and print it — or fill it in on screen and let the totals add themselves up.
How to use
- Step 1Choose the card: golf over 18 or 9 holes, a plain players-and-rounds grid, a three-game bowling series, a card game with one column per hand, or a round-robin grid.
- Step 2Set how many players and columns you need and type the names straight onto the card. For golf, Settings holds the par and stroke index of each hole so the card matches the course you are playing.
- Step 3Press “Print this card” for a clean black-and-white sheet, or keep typing on screen: Out, In, Total, the score against par and the series totals work themselves out.
Six cards, and what each one is for
A scorecard is a grid with a heading: who is playing down one side, what they are playing across the top, and a box for the total. The six cards here cover the shapes people actually ask for, and each prints on one page.
| Card | Rows and columns | What it adds up | Best printed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golf, 18 holes | Up to 6 players × 18 holes, with par and stroke index rows | Out (1–9), In (10–18), Total and the score against par | Sideways (landscape) |
| Golf, 9 holes | Up to 6 players × 9 holes | Total and the score against par | Upright |
| Players and rounds | 2–12 players × 1–24 rounds | One total per player | Upright |
| Bowling series | Up to 8 bowlers × 3 games | The series total, as on a league sheet | Upright |
| Card game hands | 2–10 players × 1–24 hands | One total per player | Upright |
| Round robin | 3–10 teams against each other | Wins, counted from both halves of the grid | Sideways (landscape) |
How to read a golf scorecard
The two printed rows above the players are the course, not the players. Par is the number of strokes a scratch golfer is expected to need on that hole: 3, 4 or 5 on almost every card, adding up to 70–72 for eighteen holes. The stroke index row (often printed as “handicap” or “HCP”) ranks the holes by difficulty, 1 for the hardest and 18 for the easiest.
Holes 1 to 9 are the front nine and total into the box marked OUT — you are walking out from the clubhouse. Holes 10 to 18 are the back nine and total into IN. OUT plus IN is your gross score, the number of strokes you actually took.
The stroke index is what turns a gross score into a net score. A course handicap of 10 means you take one stroke off the ten hardest holes — the ones with stroke index 1 through 10 — so a gross 5 on a stroke hole is a net 4. Handicaps above 18 give a second stroke, starting again from index 1. This card prints gross scores with the stroke index alongside, which is what a club card does; the net column is worked out at the end of the round.
While you are playing, the figure a group says out loud is the score against par: E for level, +2 for two over, −1 for one under. The card shows it in the +/− box and counts only the holes you have written in, so “+2 through seven” is right there.
Printing a card you can actually write on
- The print button sends the card alone: no site header, no buttons, no colors — black lines on white paper, on Letter or A4.
- Boxes are about 11 mm tall, which is enough room for a pencil at a bowling alley or on a windy tee box.
- Eighteen holes and a round-robin grid print sideways by default; the other cards print upright. The switch is in Settings if your printer disagrees.
- Type the names before printing and they come out on the card. Leave every box empty and you get a blank card — the totals stay blank too, instead of printing a row of zeros.
- No file is made and nothing is uploaded: the browser's own print dialog does the work, so you can also choose “Save as PDF” there and mail the card to whoever is organising the day.
- Need several copies? Set the card up once and print as many as you need from the same dialog.
Filling it in on screen instead
The card works as a calculator as well as a sheet of paper. Type in the boxes and the derived ones follow: Out, In and Total for golf, the three-game total for a bowling series, one total per player for a card game, and the wins column for a round robin, which compares both halves of the grid and counts a win when your score beats theirs.
Tab moves along a row, Enter moves down the column, so a foursome can call out scores hole by hole and the scorer never lifts a hand off the keyboard. The card stays in this browser until you clear it, so you can set up your group once and use the same card every week.
Questions and answers
Can I print a blank card and fill it in by hand?
That is what it is built for. Pick the card, set the number of players and columns, and print without typing anything. The boxes come out empty, the totals stay empty, and the par and stroke index rows print for golf because those belong to the course, not to the player.
What paper size does it print on?
Whatever your printer is loaded with — the card is laid out to fill a Letter or A4 page with a 12 mm margin. Eighteen-hole golf and round-robin grids are set to print sideways so the columns stay wide enough to write in; everything else prints upright, and you can switch either way in Settings.
What is the stroke index row for?
It ranks the holes from hardest (1) to easiest (18) and decides where a player's handicap strokes fall. With a course handicap of 8 you get a stroke on the holes marked 1 to 8. Set your course's own numbers in Settings; the defaults are a plain par-72 layout with the odd indexes on the front nine.
Can several people fill in the same card from their phones?
No — a scorecard is a sheet, not a live board, so it stays in your browser and is not shared by link. If you want everyone at the table to watch the totals as they change, use the score spreadsheet page, which shares a live link.
Does it keep a bowling score frame by frame?
The bowling card here is a league series sheet: the final score of each of the three games and the series total. Strikes, spares and the tenth-frame bonus are counted on the bowling scoreboard page, which does the frame-by-frame arithmetic for you.