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- Golf Card 1.0 - Golf card scoring and analysis system.
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-
- This suite of program provides comprehensive golf scoring facilities,
- and maintains a history of your scores over a period of time, with
- various options to browse and analyse your progress.
-
- Summary of features
- --------------------
-
- * Enter complete details of your favourite golf courses, including
- up to 3 different tee distances (in yards or metres), pars, stroke
- indexes for men and women, address, phone number and resident
- professional details.
-
- * Enter player details, including name, gender and handicap.
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- * Play rounds of up to 4 players. Enter scores as played, and Golf
- Card automatically updates the current position.
-
- * Use any of the following scoring methods (depending on number of
- players): strokeplay, matchplay, stableford, bestball, fourball.
-
- * Switch between available scoring methods, and net (accounting for
- handicap) or gross, at any point during the round.
-
- * Record rounds played, with notes about weather conditions etc.
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- * Browse through details of the history of your performance.
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- * Analyse results over time, overall, or for particular courses.
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- Installation instructions
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- Install all files with .opo extension in a new directory called \golf
- Install the golfcard.als file in the \app directory
- From the Apps menu in the Psion system prompts, select Install
- Select golfcard.als and press Enter.
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- To use GOLFCARD go to the golfer Icon and run Aagolf
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- User Instructions
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-
- After loading, Golfcard will display a brief intro screen. If you are
- running an unregistered version, it will then display a warning message
- indicating that certain functions are disabled. If this appears, press
- Esc to start the program.
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- Setting up courses
- ------------------
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- On the Course Details menu, select new course. Course details are
- entered into a series of dialog boxes, the first of which contains
- the basic course details: Name, address, phone number, professional
- and comments. Fill in the details, then press Enter to move onto
- the next dialog.
-
- The second dialog defines the colours used for up to three tee-markers,
- and the distance units for the course (yards or metres.)
-
- After completing the first two dialogs, the program will display the
- 'Skip to' dialog. If you are creating a new course, you will simply
- press Enter to start entering the details of hole 1. If you are
- editing a partly entered course, you can press Tab to produce a
- dialog allowing you to skip to a specified hole (type the hole number,
- and press Enter), abandon the editing operation (press 'Y') or return
- to the basic course information (press Space.)
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- All subsequent dialogs include the same three buttons:
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- Enter to accept and move to the next dialog.
- Tab to skip to another hole, or abandon editing. (see above.)
- @ to save the course as is, and exit.
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- In addition, pressing Esc will back up one dialog at a time, until you
- reach the start dialog. At this point, pressing Esc will abandon
- editing.
-
- After the first two dialogs, the program will alternate between two dialogs
- to define the parameters for each hole. The first contains the measured
- lengths from each of the tees. The second contains the men's and women's
- par and stroke index for the hole.
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- When all course details have been entered, press '@' to save the course.
- Note that you can save a partly entered course and return to it later.
-
- To go back and edit a course, choose 'Edit course' from the Course Details
- menu. A selection dialog will allow you to choose the course to edit.
-
- To delete an unwanted course, use the 'Delete course' option. You will
- have to confirm before it is deleted.
-
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- Setting up players
- ------------------
-
- To set up players, use the Player details menu. This works in the same
- way as the courses menu. The player details are contained in one dialog.
- As with courses, there are options to add, update and delete players.
- Player details consist of name, handicap and sex.
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- Playing a round
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-
- To start a new round, choose 'Select course' from the Round menu. Choose
- the required course from the selection dialog.
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- The scorecard grid will then appear. Over this, a dialog appears allowing
- you to choose the number of players and scoring method you wish to use.
- Some scoring methods are only available with certain numbers of players
- (for example, fourball requires four players.) A message will indicate
- this, if necessary.
-
- Next, select the player details. The dialog includes name, handicap, sex
- and tees the player is playing from. Press Tab to look up a predefined
- player, or enter the details directly. Repeat this process for all
- players. As with the course set-up, you can press Esc to back up to
- a previous dialog.
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- Once all players have been entered, the dialogs disappear, and the cursor
- moves into the scorecard. You can now move freely around the scorecard
- and enter scores.
-
- The top of the scorecard shows the course being played, and the current
- date. The bottom shows the details of the player and hole the cursor
- is currently on, and the scoring method currently being displayed.
- The central section shows details of 9 holes, including hole numbers,
- distances, pars, stroke indexes. To the right are the players, and
- spaces to enter scores.
-
- Enter scores by moving the cursor to the appropriate cell, typing the
- score and pressing Enter. Adjacent to each score cell is a cell which
- displays the deviation from par for that hole. A par is shown as '+0',
- a birdie as '-1', a bogey as '+1' etc. On matchplay, bestball or fourball,
- a hole won is shown as '+1', a lost hole is '-1' and a shared hole is '½0'.
-
- Towards the bottom of the screen, totals for the nine holes showing,
- and the overall course are shown.
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- Changing scoring method
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- To change scoring method during a game, press Menu and select the
- required scoring method from the menu. Also, you can switch between
- net (which accounts for handicaps) and gross which doesn't. Finally,
- you can switch between the front and back nine (registered versions only.)
-
- You can also update player details during a game (for example, changing
- a handicap.) Use the Player details menu for this. You can also add a
- new player or remove an existing player. The scorecard will be redrawn to
- reflect the change, if necessary. It will automatically change the
- scoring method if the current method is no longer applicable (for example,
- if you remove a player from a Fourball game.)
-
-
- Completing the round
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-
- To complete a round, select 'Exit and Save' from the Course/round details
- menu. After confirmation, a dialog will appear for each player to record
- general comments about the round (such as weather conditions, opinions about
- performance etc.) These details will be stored with the scorecard.
-
- To abandon a round, select 'Abandon Game'.
-
- You can also clear the scorecard, and view the course details from this
- menu.
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- Browsing historical scores
- --------------------------
-
- From the main Player Analysis menu, choose 'Browse scores'. The first
- scorecard recorded will be displayed. Below this a dialog will appear,
- allowing you to browse through each stored scorecard.
-
- Either use the arrow keys to step through the scorecards one by one, or
- enter the number in the 'Entry' field and press Enter to jump straight
- to it. The screen shows how many scorecards are currently stored.
-
- When finished with the browse function, press Esc to return to the main
- menu.
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- Score Analysis
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- This function is only available to registered users. Further details are
- available via e-mail ant@rmmb.co.nz.
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- Data functions
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-
- The Data menu allows you to switch between available disks.
-
- Select 'Exchange Data Disk' to obtain a dialog to specify which disk
- you wish to work with. If the selected disk is a flash disk, an
- additional option 'Compress Files' allows you to compress the data
- files to reclaim any unused space within them.
-
- Select 'Disk info' to display which disk Golfcard is currently using.
-
- Select 'Version' to display the Golfcard version number.
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- Any comments or suggestions: Please send via email to ant@rmmb.co.nz
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- To register, send a request via email to ant@rmmb.co.nz and forward a
- cheque or cash to one of the following addresses in the currency indicated:
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- (a) c/o Andrew Tetley
- 31B Armadale Road cash/cheque for either 10 Pounds sterling, or
- Auckland 5 20 New Zealand dollars
- New Zealand Please make cheques payable to 'A N Tetley'
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- (b) c/o Stuart Tetley
- 15550 Knoll Trail Drive Apt #4304
- Dallas
- Texas 75248-7007 cash/cheque for 15 United States dollars
- USA Please make cheques payable to 'S C Tetley'
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