Treád

Treád keeps one list of courses, shared by your flock (your group) and every other. A round takes its par, stroke index, slope and course rating from it, so put a course right once and it is right for every golfer who plays it next.

1. Find a course

The More menu open over the Events page, with its Courses row ringed beneath your name.

Open the More menu (⋯) in the header and choose Courses. The list opens with how many courses Treád holds, then a row for each country with its count — press a country to open it. Quicker still, type the club's name under Search courses… and press Search.

A search result under Your Courses, ringed: the course's name and its marks, how many tees it has, where it is, and its View page and Edit buttons.

Courses Treád already has are under Your Courses. Each shows how many tees it has and where it is, marked Linked if it came from the golf course database or Manual if someone typed it in, and Missing SI if a tee has no stroke index yet. Press View page to open the course's page, or press its name to see its tees (step 6).

2. Read a course's page

A course's page on its Overview, with its five sections ringed just above the bar.

A course's page has five sections. Overview gives the club and where it is, the par, yards, slope and number of tees, and once you have played it, Your record here. Course Info is the scorecard with your own record on it — See where your shots go walks through it. Handicap holds the Handicap calculator: your course handicap and playing handicap off a tee. My History is your rounds here, and Events the flock's events played on it.

3. Choose your tees

The picker's list of tees, ringed: each tee by name with its course rating, slope and yardage beneath, and All tees at the top.

On Course Info or Handicap, press the picker in the header. The list is headed Tee: every tee by name, with its course rating, slope and yardage beneath, and All tees at the top when the course has more than one. Choose yours.

The line above the scorecard then reads that tee's par, slope, course rating (CR) and yards, and the card, your record and the calculator are for that tee.

4. Favourite a course

The More menu open on a course's page, its This course part first, with the Favourite row ringed.

Play a course often? On its page, open the More menu: under This course, press Favourite (Unfavourite takes it off). Your favourites wait at the top of your list when you set up a round, and your record on each is one press from your Profile — Keep your regular courses close shows how.

5. Add a course that isn't there

The Golf Course Database results for a club Treád hasn't got yet, with that club's Import button ringed.

Search first. A course Treád hasn't got yet often comes back under Golf Course Database, with an Import button beside it. Press it.

Select tee for the chosen club: its tees listed with rating, slope, yards and par, one chosen, and the Import to catalog button ringed.

Under Select tee, choose the tee you play and press Import to catalog. The course joins the list, marked Linked; bring in its other tees later with + Add tee (step 6). If the course is already there, Treád says so and offers View existing course to open it — and where that one came from the database too, Add tee to existing brings this tee into it.

The Add course manually form, its course details ringed: the Course name, Location and Country boxes.

Not in the database either? Press + Add course at the top of Courses. Under Add course manually, fill in the Course name and where it is.

The tee part of the same form ringed: Tee name, Gender, Course rating and Slope rating, with the choice of 9 or 18 holes beneath.

Then the tee: its Tee name, men's or women's, its Course rating and Slope rating off the scorecard, 9 or 18 holes, and each hole's par, stroke index and yardage. Import par & stroke index from photo reads the holes off a photo of the card for you. Press Save course.

6. Add a missing rating or stroke index

A course opened in Courses: its tees ringed and numbered 1, each with its par, course rating, slope and yards, and the + Add tee button beneath numbered 2.

In Courses, find the course and press its name. Its tees open beneath it ①, each with its par, course rating and slope; + Add tee ② adds one it is missing. To fill in a rating, press Edit beside the tee.

A tee being edited, ringed: its Tee name, Gender, Course rating and Slope boxes, where you type the figures from the scorecard.

Type the Course rating and Slope from the scorecard and press Save. Without both, the tee can't be used for a roaming or solo round — Treád stops you at Set up your round and when a solo round is finished.

A tee's holes opened in Courses: the SI column ringed and numbered 1, one stroke index box per hole beside its hole number and par; Apply SI from numbered 2 and Import from photo numbered 3 above the holes.

Beneath it are the tee's holes, with an SI column ① — each stroke index from 1 to 18 used once (1 to 9 on a nine-hole tee). Fill in any that are empty and press Save Stroke Index, which appears once there is something to save. If another tee of the course has its stroke index, Apply SI from ② that tee copies it across, and Import from photo ③ reads it off a photo of the card.

On a roaming round, once your course is set, a missing stroke index shows on your card in the Clubhouse, with Add SI. It opens Stroke index for the course you're playing; save it there, and where the course in the list is missing it too, it is filled in there as well.

Who can change a course

Any member of a flock can add a course or a tee and fill in ratings and stroke indexes. A member who isn't a flock admin can make three changes in ten minutes; after that Treád asks you to wait a few minutes. Flock admins have no such limit. Removing a course or a tee is kept to Treád's own team.