Using your digital app, whether you’re an English player travelling to Scotland, or an Irish golfer playing in Wales, you can enter a score for your World Handicap System index.
If you’re playing an affiliated course in one of the four nations, the digital app you use from England Golf, Scottish Golf, Wales Golf or Golf Ireland can accept a general play score and add it to your handicap record.
Not only can you play with golfers from your own country, you can also mark scores for those in other home nations after you’ve played together.
So if want to get cracking, here’s how to do it..
How can you enter cross-border scores in a digital app?
From the dashboard page, click on the scorecard tab. Go into find a course and select the jurisdiction you’re going to submit a score from. To do that, click the country option and choose the nation.
It will find the courses nearest to you, and you can pick the course, select the tee you’re playing, then create scorecard and click on that new scorecard.
You’ll have the option to add playing partners at that point before clicking ‘start round’.
You enter your hole-by-hole scores as normal. When you finish your round, you will check your scores before confirming and adding your signature on the app.
Now you need to find your marker. There is no change if you and your playing partner are from the same country, but you can now have an attester who is from another home nation.
You find the attester by hitting search player, filtering by country, and entering your marker’s membership number. You won’t be able to search by player name if your marker is not from the same country as you.
If your attester needs to find their membership number, they can open their own digital app find it below their WHS Index in the dashboard section.
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You enter their membership number, hit search, and it will find and allow you to add that player. They will be then required to confirm and sign your score on YOUR phone.
You hit save and the score is successfully submitted. You should be able to immediately see that score on your own dashboard.
What steps are in place to stop manipulation?
Gelocation and time-stamping apply as normal. Players who start a round can’t submit an 18-hole score until at least two hours after it has been created on the app.
Can you submit competition scores?
No. You can only submit general play scores through your apps.
Who can attest and sign my cross-border scores?
Any member of an affiliated golf club or iGolf subscriber within England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales.
What about other countries?
Handicapping teams at the home union governing bodies say work is under way to allow WHS overseas scores to be submitted.
Now have your say
Do you submit cross-border scores through your digital app? Let me know how you find the process and where you have played on X.
