Beginner's silly question(s) time.
I need to get my handicap sorted so I'm going to have a go at scoring myself for the first time this weekend (I don't have a score book yet, so for now I'm going to print some score sheets from the internet). It seems that each row on a typical score card has space for recording two ends - half a dozen arrows each. Is there a reason for recording scores and running totals two ends at a time, other than to save space on the page? It would seem more logical to score each end on a separate row!
How do I record scores for 3-arrow ends - would I still record two ends per row, but enter arrow scores into the first 3 boxes and leave the remaining 3 blank? Then total up each row in the usual way?
And what happens when scoring a large round, e.g. a FITA 18 with 20 ends? I'm assuming score cards have enough room (they generally seem to have at least 10 rows of 2 ends each)! I've noticed some score cards have a "totals" row after every 4 or 5 normal rows. Is there any requirement to fill these in or just fill in the grand totals at the end of the round?
I need to get my handicap sorted so I'm going to have a go at scoring myself for the first time this weekend (I don't have a score book yet, so for now I'm going to print some score sheets from the internet). It seems that each row on a typical score card has space for recording two ends - half a dozen arrows each. Is there a reason for recording scores and running totals two ends at a time, other than to save space on the page? It would seem more logical to score each end on a separate row!
How do I record scores for 3-arrow ends - would I still record two ends per row, but enter arrow scores into the first 3 boxes and leave the remaining 3 blank? Then total up each row in the usual way?
And what happens when scoring a large round, e.g. a FITA 18 with 20 ends? I'm assuming score cards have enough room (they generally seem to have at least 10 rows of 2 ends each)! I've noticed some score cards have a "totals" row after every 4 or 5 normal rows. Is there any requirement to fill these in or just fill in the grand totals at the end of the round?