If you wish to improve your game, watchMynumbers recommends recording what happens on the golf course.
In professional and leading amateur events, players and their caddies cannot use a phone to record what has occurred on the course. In these cases, if you cannot remember every club used, the quality or error and distance of every stroke and putt, watchMynumbers recommends writing it down in your tournament book or the watchMynumbers paper ledger.
In club events or practise rounds, using a phone on the course is acceptable. A phone however, only records what has happened. It does not provide advice on which clubs to use; it only provides the distances you hit the ball with various clubs, like a yardage book.
If you do choose to use your phone, it is all about getting into a good rhythm, knowing when it is appropriate to use your phone to record your strokes, and when it is not. If you miss details of a stroke, add a penalty, and update the item at the end of the hole or end of the round during your round review.
You may also choose not to use the App on the course. In this instance, watchMynumbers recommends you use the watchMynumbers paper ledger to record your activity on the course and transfer the information onto the app at the end of play.
All of the items listed in today’s Round Details screen, including Edit Course and Edit Clubs need to be completed prior to printing out your manual card.
From the Round History screen, select your newly created round.
Tap on the More tab and scroll down to the bottom of the screen.
Select the Print Manual Card button (in grey) to print your manual paper ledger card.
Experiment at home to select the right grade of paper, so the paper does not crumble during the round.
You will be required to record every stroke and putt on each hole, the club used, the distance to the pin and the quality of the stroke.
watchMynumbers provides five sections to record your Tee, Fairway, and Fairway & Greenside bunker strokes along with five areas to recording putt distances.
In each stroke box, record the following:
Indicate specific scenarios such as hitting your ball from:
The codes for these items and a list of club short codes, can be found at the bottom of the scorecard for the front nine holes and the back nine holes on the reverse side.
If you require more places to record your strokes, place the information on a supplement page or on the back of your card.
When on the Tee or fairway, enter the short name of club used in the first #1 column, the distance to the pin in the Dis column and the quality of the stroke in the column with the question mark (?).
Repeat this in columns #2, #3 etc. Use your range finder to ascertain the distance to the pin where possible.
When going for the green, you may wish to record whether the pin is in a Dangerous Position, however this is mainly a function for low handicapped and elite golfers.
In the DPP column, use a “1” to signify a Dangerous Pin Placement and “1+” if you are attacking the pin.
If the pin is in a Passive (not dangerous) position, record nothing.
When you arrive on the green, record the approximate location of the pin with a dot in the Flag column; showing a single dot at the top, centre or bottom and either left or right of centre.
Record the arrival distance from the pin in one of the five putting zones.
and the distances to the pin for any subsequent putts.
If you have more than 1 putt in the same Putting zone, record each putt distance.
You also may, (but it’s not essential) record whether the ball arrived on the green Above (A) or Below (B) the hole.
Memorise the distance of each putt to the pin and record them in your manual ledger after you complete the hole so as to not hold up play.