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I prefer a phone as I love statistics and being able to look back at my rounds and see how I have improved. Udisc provides a very easy way to track a number of stats and averages over the years.
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I haven't played a tournament in years and rules may have changed a few times since. I read a few times in this thread that there was previously no requirement for each player to sign the scorecard and that's conflicting with my memories.
Did there used to be a requirement for all players to sign off on the paper scorecard?
I seem to remember having to do that at Krupicka's IOS tourneys a decade or so ago. Not sure if that was a pdga rule or just a best practice that tourney staff put in place.
As somebody who has a smart phone and is very technologically inclined and literate, I hate using my phone while playing disc golf. I'll keep score with pen and paper or not at all. I don't particularly like it when other people use udisc either but that's up to them - IMO you don't really notice how jarring it is to have somebody take out their phone between every. single. hole. until you don't do that. But I really would not be a fan of being forced to use my phone to keep score.
What!!? In my experience, entering scores on a phone is quicker and easier than writing down scores on a scorecard.
when people take out their phones, even in tournaments, it distracts them from what is at hand more than taking scores with pen and paper would
One issue I've seen with the digital scoring is that the order of players change....so it is easy to mark a score for a wrong person if you aren't paying attention. Player 1 is always first on the tee, get used to that when entering scores, then Player 1 has a bad hole and drops a spot or two....now you could think they are still in #1 spot and mark is so. But that also means you aren't paying attention to the app as it shows the names. Paper/pencil, the order on the scorecard is always the same for the round. I've seen this happen in a league, the digital player called off the names to get scores and the paper/pencil scorer put them down in the order on the paper:, for example, four players start in this order A, B, C, D. At the start the digital and paper card's order match. But then, a few holes in.....
Digital calls for scores in order: A, C, D, B
Paper writes scores in order: A, B, C, D
(Player A's score on both is okay, but then the digital scorer asks for C's score and the paper scorer puts it down as B's score).
I would not want to be forced to use my phone during a rainy round. Phone are water resistant, not water proof, and risking damage to a(n expensive) personal electronic device just to avoid having to keep score with pen and paper seems crazy to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I haven't played a tournament in years and rules may have changed a few times since. I read a few times in this thread that there was previously no requirement for each player to sign the scorecard and that's conflicting with my memories.
Did there used to be a requirement for all players to sign off on the paper scorecard?
I seem to remember having to do that at Krupicka's IOS tourneys a decade or so ago. Not sure if that was a pdga rule or just a best practice that tourney staff put in place.
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I prefer to use the "List" order for this reason. It's easier to always take score in the same order every hole, IMO.
I prefer a phone as I love statistics and being able to look back at my rounds and see how I have improved. Udisc provides a very easy way to track a number of stats and averages over the years.
I haven't played a tournament in years and rules may have changed a few times since. I read a few times in this thread that there was previously no requirement for each player to sign the scorecard and that's conflicting with my memories.
Did there used to be a requirement for all players to sign off on the paper scorecard?
I seem to remember having to do that at Krupicka's IOS tourneys a decade or so ago. Not sure if that was a pdga rule or just a best practice that tourney staff put in place.
I love UDisc for this now. Cue the old man voice...Back in my day, I had a floppy disk with over 250 rounds on a spreadsheet. Hole-by-hole averages and everything. I was the only weird person I knew doing this at the time.
If anybody has ever heard of AmiPro, that's the program I used on my 486. I believe it was a competitor of Lotus 1-2-3. Still have the floppy disk but haven't looked at it in a good 22 years or more. A ton of rounds at Grand Woods Park in Lansing, MI on there!
Fast forward to about two years ago in a tourney in MA-40 and a guy in his first ever tournament. I said "par" on a hole while he was keeping score and he thought I said "4" instead of the three I got. We fixed it before we turned it in. I knew I had shot X but he had me down for X+1 at the end and it took a good while to figure out which hole was in question. "I am certain I had a 3 on this hole here," and sure enough he thought had said "4" when I had said "par." It's all good.
Well, when I ask people for a score on a hole I am expecting a numerical response so I can see where your par might have gotten scored as a four.
I use my non-water resistant phone in a Ziploc bag. Never have to take it out of the bage as it can sense you touching the screen through the Ziploc. Stays a lot drier than any paper score card ever would.