GolfJot
One card. Four kids. The adult keeping score has met one of them.
That’s a school golf match: several groups on the course at once, each with one paper card, each card kept by whichever parent picked it up at the first tee.
GolfJot is a scorecard for that parent, and a way for coaches to set the match up before the day.
The code sets up your card — the course, the holes you’re playing, and the names on it.
Type it and you’re done. No account, no download, nothing to sign up for.
The person holding the card
Your own kid, and three you’ve never met
You’d like to watch your kid play. Every swing all four of them take has to end up in the right column.
Tap once per swing
Tap a player once every time they swing.
That’s the whole thing.
You never look down to find the right box. You never add anything up.
No account, no signal, no pencil
It runs on the phone in your pocket and keeps working where there’s no signal. No account to make. No pencil that has to work.
What it changes for a coach
Three things, and they don’t arrive together
They arrive in that order. The first needs nobody else to agree to anything.
Before anyone else is involved
Build the pairings the night before, instead of six cards fitted around a working day. GolfJot proposes the groups from your own rules — roster order, who’s played the course before, who’s travelling with family. You move anyone you want.
Nothing changes for anyone else. No app for the parents, no sign-ups, and the match runs exactly as it did.
When the parents keep score
When the parents keep score on their phones, the cards add themselves up. No handwriting to work out on the hood of a car at seven o’clock. No column of numbers to total four times over.
When the other schools are in it too
When the other schools are in it too, you can see the match as it happens instead of collecting four schools’ cards at the end and adding them up.
Coach sign-in — set up a roster and a match.
Several schools, one code
What joining an event actually involves
The host reads a code down the phone. Each coach types it in and marks which of their own players are available. Nothing else is asked of anyone.
Your parents don’t need an account, you don’t hand over your roster, and nothing carries past that one Saturday.
What crosses between schools
The names you mark, and nothing else
A host sees the players you mark available for that event. Not the roster they came from, not the players you didn’t mark, and nothing else about your team.
Whether a player has played the course before, and who the girls are, stay with their own coach. They reach a host only if he sends them, for one event, on purpose.