FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Q: When I load the main program, some of the icons are missing at the bottom of the screen.	The Chart My Golf program automatically maximises to the window size. This means you need to view it on 100% zoom. This is easy to change, and change back again when you return to normal browsing on other sites. To change your zoom level (on Internet Explorer 9) complete the following: At the top right hand corner of the window is the red [x], the close-window button. Below this is the tools-button (a picture of a cog). Click this, or alternatively press Alt-X. A menu appears with the word 'Zoom' and a percentage next to it. Remember this percentage (eg 150%) as you will want to change your zoom back to this when you leave Chart My Golf. Click the word zoom (or hover your mouse over it) and several options will appear. Click 100%. Chart My Golf will now function correctly. Do not forget to reverse the process to recover your normal zoom level.
Q: Can I submit rounds for 9 hole courses?	A: Yes. When creating the course repeat the course statistics for both the in-nine and out-nines. When you play a single nine holes submit scores for just the first nine and put no-scores for the last nine holes. Some people prefer sumitting a full eighteen holes on a nine-hole course in two different ways: Create two separate rounds for both nines, putting the data into the first-nine holes each time and submitting no-scores for the last nine holes. You will have to have separate start-times for each nine. This is a good way to analyse your data for each nine, irrespective of whether they are played together or separately. Create a single round, putting the data for the second nine holes played into the in-nine slots. You will not be able to directly compare your in-nine holes with all the other times you have played the nine-hole course as just nine holes. However, this is the best way to analyse your data to see if you get better the more holes you play, or if you get worse and start to flag near the end of 18 holes.
Q: Can you give an example of how you fill in a New Round?	A: Yes The input screen for a round is set up so you have to submit as little information as possible about your round. From this small amount of data a large number of statistics can be calculated. For example, you tee-off on a par 4 hole and miss the fairway, landing in the rough. You are in a difficult position so elect not to play for the green with your next stoke, instead just getting back on the fairway a little bit closer to the green. You then make a chip shot onto the green, but it overshoots and goes into the greenside bunker behind. Unphased by your bad luck you manage to hit your sand wedge shot onto the green where it comes to rest just inches from the hole. You then tap this gimme into the hole. You fill in this hole on the ChartMyGolf new round dialog box as follows: Your score for the hole is 5. Since you missed the fairway with your tee shot, your entry in Fairways Hit is 'N' for no. You did not hit any fairway bunkers so Fairway Bunkers is 0. You did not hit any water or receive any other penalties for the hole so both these are 0 as well. Even though this was a par 4 hole, your Approach Shot was not your second shot. It was your third. The Approach Shot is a non-standard, personal statistic. Only you can determine what is your Approach Shot; the shot you personally believe is your attempt to hit the green. In the example above our second shot was not aimed at the green, we were just trying to get back on the fairway after a disastrous tee shot. Our third shot was our attempt to hit the green. Sadly in our example this went wrong and it rolled off the back of the green. Consequently the Approach Shot in this case is marked as off green. We landed in a greenside bunker and managed to get out in 1 shot, so hence we put a 1 in the Greenside Bunker entry. We had no Off Green chips, as bunkers are not included in this entry, so we mark a 0 in this slot. We only had to use our putter once, tapping in our gimme, so we score a 1 in the Putts entry. From this limited information all your statistics are automatically calculated for you. For example your greenside total is 2. You did not achieve a GIR (Green in Regulation) as you took 4 shots rather than the expected 2 to get onto the green. You did not achieve a GIR+1 because you would have had to get onto the green with 3 shots, but you did achieve a GIR+2 since you got onto the green in 4 (the normal 2 plus an additional 2). However, you achieved a Sand Save for this hole as you still managed to hole out within 2 shots from the greenside bunker.
Q: Can you give another example of how you fill in a New Round?	A: Yes In this next example we are on a par 3 hole. We do not record Fairways Hit on these holes, as there is no fairway to hit. Instead we are trying to hit the green with our tee shot, so the result of this shot is also our Approach shot. We hit the green but leave ourselves a mid range putt. You manage to hole this putt for a birdie. You fill in this hole on the ChartMyGolf new round dialog box as follows: Your score for the hole is 2. Since this is a par 3 your entry in Fairways Hit is 'x' for no score. You did not hit any fairway bunkers so Fairway Bunkers is 0. You did not hit any water or receive any other penalties for the hole so both these are 0 as well. Your Approach Shot is a mid range putt. The definition of the length of putt for the approach shot is subjective and personal in nature. Short putts are ones you would expect to get without question and long putts are those you would only expect to get if you were very lucky. Mid range putts are those in between. We landed on the green so Greenside Bunkers and Off Green Chips are both 0. We hole out with our single putt so our Putts entry is 1. Again, from this limited information all your statistics are automatically calculated for you. For example your greenside total is 1. You achieved a GIR (Green in Regulation) as you hit the green with the expected 1 shot.