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Summary of recent improvements to ScoreKeeper
through Version 10

In All ScoreKeeper editions:

  2012-2015 USGA Handicap System Manual:.
   - optional come-up warnings in connection with new requirement to update all handicaps twice per month, year round.  
   - ability to manually append  "L" tag to a golfer's handicap index, in connection with new definition of "L" tag.
     (Automatic appending of "L" tag for indexes over USGA limits -- 36.4 for men, 40.4 for women -- remains.) 

  Score entry: up to 20 strokes-per-hole can be recorded when using hole-by-hole score entry. 

  Score entry:  when recording 2 scores per day, an optional AM / PM tag can be applied.  This assures correct ordering for handicap calculations, and makes possible separate scoring and reporting of AM / PM competitions (see below).

  Single-golfer score histories and stats: can be saved as report files, as well as viewed on-screen or printed.

  A 'Most-Improved Golfers' report: contrasts current golfer handicaps with those from a selected earlier date.

  A 'Ringer' Scores report: displays each golfer's best score for each hole.

  Recording or editing Golf Courses:
     - course names expanded to 24 characters
     - option to automatically 'split' an on-file 18-hole course, creating two new 9-hole courses    

  Printing Handicap Cards: sizing controls are provided to 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.

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

  Deleting Selected Scores:  
   - "Discard Scores, Selected Date" feature deletes all golfers' scores for a single selected date-of-play.
   - "Discard Scores, Older than Selected Date" feature deletes all golfers' scores older than a selected date-of-play.

  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 separate report editors can be selected ... one for "text" reports, one for HTML reports.

In ScoreKeeper  League & Tournament  and  Clubhouse  editions:
 

  Pairings (2-, 3-, or 4-somes) creation and editing:  All operations (building initial pairings ... adding or deleting pairings ... adding, deleting or re-assigning golfers) are now handled by simply clicking names in on-screen list of golfers and their pairing assignments.  Extremely easy and flexible!  

  Daily Results reports: An option has been added to display golfer stats (fairways-hit, greens-in-reg., putts) along with scores on this family of reports.

  Multi-day Event reports: An option has been added to rank golfers by points awarded, as well as by gross or net scores.

  2 Scores per Day:  An option has been added to work with AM-only or PM-only scores (see "2 scores per day" above) in awarding points and in reporting results of competitions. This enables handling competitions with 2 rounds played per day ... even if the competitive format of the two rounds is different.  For example, a morning "gross and net" event, and an afternoon Stableford event.

  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.

  Handicapping Competitions:  A '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).

  Competitor Scorecards:
- 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).
- 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.

Competition Reports: 
- Match-Results Report:  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.

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