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Summary of recent improvements to ScoreKeeper
through Version 9.0

In All ScoreKeeper editions:

  Recording or editing Golf Courses:
     - course names expanded to 24 characters
     - option to 'split' an on-file 18-hole course, creating two new 9-hole courses
     - total course yardage displayed 
     - automatic link to web-based data on golf courses (such as Course and Slope Ratings).

  Up to 20 strokes-per-hole can be recorded when using hole-by-hole score entry. 

  2008-2011 USGA Handicap System Manual:.
   - for each golfer, current and five prior handicaps kept on file
   - provision to manually reset current or any of prior handicap values
   - provision to automatically update list of prior revisions as new handicaps are calculated
   - with 18-hole handicapping, any 9-hole scores are combined to form 18s at the time they are entered, not by date-of-play
   - new "Complete" and "General" Scoring History reports: include current & five prior handicaps; "Complete" includes course names
   - "NL" (not "J") tag applied to local 9-hole indexes which are above USGA limits.

  An automated link to the USGA® Handicap System Manual on-line has been added.

  A 'Ringer' Scores report is now provided in all ScoreKeeper editions.

  Printing Handicap Cards & Scorecards: cards with graphic backgrounds (handicap cards, competitor scorecards, or scores & stats cards) can now be created with "one-pass" through the printer (background and text are applied at the same time).  Provides best alignment between background and card text.
Also, new sizing controls are provided. These allow fine-tuning of the position (upper margin and left margin) and size (vertical and horizontal) of the card background so as to best align the background with printed text.

  Statistics:  A new feature in the "Single Golfer" menu displays three windows simultaneously (score history, scoring averages, and trend-graphing) for the selected golfer.

  Trend-Graphing:  A new control lets you select the number or scores to be averaged in the "Moving Average" display. You can average from 2 to 20 scores.

  Deleting Selected Scores:  A new feature, "Discard Scores, Selected Date" has been added to the Tools menu. Use this feature to delete all golfers' scores for a single selected date-of-play.

  Sending E-mail to Golfers:  Golfer profiles now contain an optional field for recording e-mail addresses.  ScoreKeeper can be used to send e-mail to any golfer with a single mouse click.  You can also export an e-mail list of any size to an external email program such as Outlook Express.

  Automatically assign ID codes:  When recording new golfers you can type a number such as "001" in the dialog box where the ID code is to be entered.  Scorekeeper automatically assigns the first unused ID code in the sequence beginning with that number, e.g. 001, 002, 003, etc.

  Automatic Font Sizing: when producing text (.txt) reports,  printer font size reduces automatically if needed to fit paper width.  (with HTML reports, font sizing is automatic in all cases)

  Report File Names:  The default file names used in saving most ScoreKeeper reports now include the current month and day. For example, for  a Standings Report, the default file name is "SK-Standings-MMDD", where MM and DD represent the current month and day.

  Managing Report Files:  Two options are provided for exporting reports.
1) To a text editor or word processor:  you can designate an external program such as Microsoft Word to serve as an external editor for reports. You can then export any saved report to that external program for editing. 
2) To your Website:  ScoreKeeper now includes its own FTP (file transfer protocol) feature which you can use to publish reports to your Website.  Or, you can designate an external "FTP Client" program to send reports to your site.

In ScoreKeeper  League & Tournament  and  Clubhouse  editions:
 

  Golfers competing from different tees:  Section 3-5 of  the USGA handicap manual specifies a handicap adjustment to be made when golfers compete from different tees.  A new option is provided to specify the amount of the adjustment (number of strokes) and the tees for which this adjustment applies.  Net score calculations including this adjustment are done automatically, and applied when awarding points and when creating competition reports (daily results, multi-day event results, match results) which display net scores.

  Competitor Scorecards:  When printing cards with graphic backgrounds, these new printing features are available:
- Cards can now be produced with "one-pass" through the printer if desired, with the background and text being applied at the same time.
- Hole yardages and hole handicap ranks can be displayed for a single course, or you can elect to display hole handicap ranks for 2 courses (one for men one for women).
- Total course yardage is displayed with hole yardages.
- A 5th line is shown on all cards in addition to the 4 lines which hold golfer names. This line is blank and can be used for any purpose, e.g. for noting status of match at each hole.
- New sizing controls are provided. These allow fine-tuning of the position (upper margin and left margin) and size (vertical and horizontal) of the
card background so as to best align the background with printed text.
- Four scorecard formats are available ... 9-hole (1-to-9), 9-hole (10-to-18) , 18-hole linear, 18-hole "over/under" (displays 18 holes, holes 1 through 9 appearing above holes 10 through 18.) 
- Three options are now provided for marking handicap strokes awarded on each hole.
   1) Full handicap: each golfer's full course handicap is used in awarding strokes.
   2) Net vs. opponent: the golfer with the higher handicap is awarded the difference between his or her handicap and opponent's handicap.
   3) None: No handicap strokes are marked on the scorecards.

  Tournament Scoring:  Three scoring systems ... the Scheid formula, the Peoria formula and a Callaway-like formula are all included. The details of all of these formulas can be found in the USGA pamphlet "Handicapping the Unhandicapped" or at the USGA web site ... www.usga.org/playing/handicaps/understanding_handicap/articles/handicapping_the_un.html
(Please note that the term "Callaway" is trademarked, and Mark II Systems does not have any agreement with the trademark holder to represent that ScoreKeeper software implements the Callaway system.)

  Handicapping Competitions:  A new 'Competition Handicaps' feature has been added. With this feature, all golfer handicap indexes can be reduced from full value for use in scoring competitions. For example,
    - Percent reduction:  team competitions might be scored using 80% or 90% handicapping.
    - Fixed reduction:  a "Low Net" tournaments can be scored by reducing each golfer's index so as to bring the best golfer to an index of zero.
Two options are provided for creating competition handicaps: 1) each golfer's full handicap index can be multiplied by a fixed percentage (1% to 100%), or 2) each handicap index can be reduced by a fixed numerical value (0 to 9.9).

  Awarding Points:  The Automatic Point Awards feature has been improved with these new options. 
- Team 2-best-balls scoring:  New in Version 7.0 ... The strokes taken by the two golfers on each team with the lowest scores are summed to form a team total for each hole. Gross (scratch) or net (handicapped) basis.  Totals for competing teams are compared to award points as prescribed in your point-awarding formula.
- Team-sum scoring:  The strokes taken by all golfers on each team are summed to form a team total for each hole.  Gross (scratch) or net (handicapped) scoring.  These totals for competing teams are compared to award points as prescribed in your point-awarding formula..
- Team best-ball scoring:  A single "best ball" score is computed for each opposing team for each hole, on a gross (scratch) or net (handicapped) basis.  The "best ball" scores of competing teams are compared to award points as prescribed in your point-awarding formula.
- Substitute golfers: A single golfer can be identified as a "common substitute". This golfer will then be used as a sub in all matches where one of the opponents has not played. 
- Stableford scoring: The point values awarded for eagle, birdie, par, etc. can now be set by the user.
- Forfeits:  New in Version 7.0 ... Points can (optionally) be awarded automatically when a golfer forfeits a
match. The opponent of the golfer who forfeits can be awarded all points available in the match, as established in your point awarding formula, or you can specify the number of points awarded to the winning golfer.
- Reverse-Order Matches: For team-vs.-team competitions, opponents are reversed from the order in which golfers appear within teams. For example, if opposing 2-golfer teams each have an "A" golfer and a "B" golfer, then the "A" golfer on each team would play against the "B" golfer on the opposing team.

  Foursome / Threesome / Twosome Builder:  Two features, previously provided only in the foursome builder, are now also available when creating threesomes.
- Equalized handicaps: golfers are automatically arranged so that threesomes or foursomes have (nearly) the same average handicap.
- Scramble-format handicap: A single handicap is created for each threesome or foursome for use in "Scramble" competitions.  For foursomes, this handicap is calculated as: 20% of the "A" golfer's handicap, plus 15% of B, plus 10% of C, plus 5% of D.  For threesomes, this handicap is calculated as ... 30% of the "A" golfer's handicap, plus 15% "B", plus 5% "C".
- Reverse ordering: When creating pairings, a new "reverse order" option is provided. Selecting this option causes golfers to be arranged into pairings in reverse order, e.g. highest-handicap golfers first instead of lowest first.
-  Breaking ties:  When using the "by Event Scores" method of assigning golfers to pairings, two new options for breaking ties are provided. These two options are described under "Automatic Flighting" above.

Competition Reports: 
- Match-Results Report:  New in V7.0 ... Displays the results of golfer v. golfer or team v. team matches for each week of league play.  Opposing golfers or teams are displayed, along with scores and points awarded to each.  Any substitute golfers used in a match are also displayed.  An option lets you display the schedule of matches for the following week on the same report with the results of matches for the current week.
- Scramble: Gross & Net:  Use this report to display gross and net scores recorded by threesomes/foursomes (pairings) in a scramble-format competition. Net scores for each pairing can be displayed using "Average Handicap" or "Scramble Handicap" options.
- Team-best-ball: displays the best-ball score (the lowest score on each hole) for each team, for a single day's play.
- Team-2-best-balls:  New in Version 7.0 ... displays the 2-best-balls score for each team (the sum of scores for the two golfers with the lowest scores) for each team, for a single day's play.
- Team-total-strokes: displays the team-total score (the sum of individual golfer scores) for each team, for a single day's play.

Arranging Golfers on Reports:  Several new options have been added for arranging golfers on reports:
  - In the Standings Report, golfers can be arranged by flight or team, then by handicap within each flight or team.
  - In the Daily Results Report, golfers can be arranged by flight or team, then by gross or net score within each flight or team.
  - In the Multi-Day Event Report, golfers can be arranged by flight or team, then by event score(s) within each flight or team.

Tournament Pairings: A new option is provided for appending an alphabetical list of golfers and their threesome or foursome (pairing) numbers to the end of a Threesomes Report or Foursomes Report.  This can be useful, when working with a large field of golfers, as an aid to golfers in locating the pairing in which they will be playing.

  "Discard" and "Reset Points" Features:  Previously, the Discard feature performed two functions:  deleting each golfer's oldest scores, and resetting each golfer's points to zero (if points had been awarded).   These two functions can now be performed separately.  Also, the Discard feature can now delete all scores for a selected date-of-play.
 

In ScoreKeeper Clubhouse editions:

  Web-based score entry by golfers:  permits golfers to record scores through your website, with subsequent download of those scores into ScoreKeeper. Golfers can record total or hole-by-hole scores.  (To use this feature, you must have or create a website.)
See demo of the score entry process (you can download web pages which can be added to your Website to enable golfers to record scores there). Demo is usable with all (Clubhouse, League/Tournament, and Standard) editions.

  PC-based score entry by golfers:  The "Members" score-entry component of ScoreKeeper has been redesigned.  (In Standard and League/Tournament editions, "Members" software not provided. However, a DEMO of Members software can be found in ScoreKeeper Help Menu.)