this year.

I’ve dabbled in tracking my golf scores and for the most part have had good results with a free online solution called GolfTrack at FreeGolfInfo.com. It lets me track the few stats I record (score, putts, fairways hit, up-and-down, sand saves, and penalty strokes). The free version shows me a trend graph of my last 10 rounds, as well as provides me with my average scoring on different holes, sorted by total or course. If I want I can drill down to one course and see how I fair on each hole (average score, fairways hit, putts and penalty strokes). I went looking for a local solution for the Mac and the only decent product seems to be Scorecard by Cynical Peak Software. Entering scores is dead easy, and they provide a wealth of statistics, but currently they don’t provide any graphs, and I actually find it difficult to locate the stats i want (I like to see my scoring average on par 3′s, par 4′s and par 5′s). It also comes with a price tag of $29.95 USD, less 20% if you know where to look. In an interesting stroke of coincidence Macworld posted a review today of the leading golf score tracking applications for the iPhone. From their review the best product (and surprisingly also the free one) is TeeShot. It tracks all the stats I currently track and returns a heap of information. It looks to be a real winner now, and with promises of GPS inclusion (think accurately track the length of your drives and location on the course) it can only get better.

With free products like this, and the current online solution I use, I am finding it very difficult to justify shelling out $30 for Scorecard.