Editorial policy

How a note gets onto the card

Every page under this domain follows the same four stages. The policy is short because a reader should be able to hold it in their head while reading a note.

1. Drafting

A note begins with a question a recreational player actually asks on the course — usually one with a number or a procedure inside it. The draft states the question before it states the answer. Notes are signed by the editorial desk; an individual is named only once that person is assigned to the site and their details are recorded.

2. Reference first, prose second

Rules and handicap procedure are checked against the published reference works before anything is written, and those works are listed at the foot of each note. Where a note simplifies — and most of these notes simplify, because a weekend round does not need every clause — the simplification is flagged rather than left to look like the full rule.

3. How AI is used

Generative AI writes the first draft of each note. It is instructed not to invent numbers, dates, quotations or first-hand experience, but a draft can still contain mistakes. Each note shows the label “AI draft, not edited” at its foot, so readers can see how it was produced.

Notes are published under the editorial desk. They are drafted with generative AI. Before a note is scheduled, the site owner reads it and approves its scope and the sources it lists. Notes have not been edited line by line by a human editor, and no individual is named as an author.

The owner's review checks that the sources are relevant to the topic; it does not re-verify every figure. Notes are also compared with their sources in a separate review, and a note in which that review finds a wrong figure, date or source is taken off the site until it is corrected.

4. Corrections

If you find an error, use the contact page with the page address and your source. We correct the note, or take it off the site while it is being fixed.

5. What is never published here

• Advice whose purpose is play for money, or links to sites that offer it.
• Reviews of equipment the desk has not used.
• Text or images lifted from another site, or from this domain's earlier owners.
• Paid placement, sponsored entries, or link exchanges.