Take a look at the top row - see the column marked "HCP"? That stands for "handicap," of course, and if this column appears on your scorecard you can forego the dots, slashes, and two-scores-per-hole method we've seen on the previous two pages.
If that handicap column appears, just write your course handicap (in our example, "11") in the appropriate box. Mark your actual strokes taken (gross score) on each hole throughout play, then tally up your strokes at the end of the round.
In the example above, the total strokes were 85; the course handicap was 11. Subtract 11 from 85 - no muss, no fuss - and you've got your net score of 74.
