Help & FAQ

GolfingRecord is a free golf scorecard tracker and handicap calculator. This page answers the questions we hear most often: how handicap calculation works under each of the supported systems, how Stableford scoring is applied to your strokes, how Equitable Stroke Control caps your per-hole score, how to create and edit courses and tees, and how to share your rounds with friends so a society or fourball can compare results without anyone having to maintain a separate spreadsheet.

The handicap section covers the World Handicap System (WHS 2022), the older USGA estimation, and CONGU — including how to switch between systems and what happens to your existing rounds when you do. The scoring section explains the Stableford points table, why a score of zero awarded for double-bogey-or-worse isn't a bug, and how the Premium statistics use these values for comparisons over time. The course-management section walks through finding an existing course in the 15,000+ club database, creating a new course when yours isn't there, editing tees and stroke indices, and what to do when a course's slope or course rating has changed.

If your question isn't covered here, the contact page has details for reaching support.