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How to Mark a Golf Scorecard

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Stroke Play with a Course Handicap of More than 18

Golf Scorecard - Handicap over 18
Here's what a scorecard looks like when your course handicap is 18 or above, which means that you get to take a stroke on every hole, and sometimes two strokes on a hole.

In this case, since you'll be writing down both a gross and net score on each hole, your scorecard will look much tidier and be easier to read if you forego the "slash" method of writing the gross and net in the same box, and put your net scores on a second row.

Notice that we still mark our scorecard before the round starts with dots, representing the number of strokes we get to take on each hole.

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