For years, I’ve loved nothing more in golf than a beautiful, colorful psycho scorecard. When I was doing my Clubhouse Newsletter, I had a section for “Psycho Scorecard of the Week,” and people on social media started to send them in on a daily basis when the PGA Tour kicked off.
The one issue? I’m not sure everyone totally understands what I mean when I say psycho scorecard. I get a lot of “submissions” of ‘cards that are wild, sure, but not psycho. So I figured why not spend a few minutes typing up a helpful guide to what is psycho and what is not.
The first rule of a psycho scorecard; it can’t be just a really good round. I’ve had plenty of 65s or 68s sent my way with guys making a whole bunch of birdies and a double-bogey and firing a solid tournament round. That’s just golf. If you’re going low and have a bad hole, that isn’t psycho it’s typical.
I’ll give you Will Zalatoris from this week’s Korn Ferry event as an example:
That’s … just great golf. An ace, an eagle, six birdies, one bad hole, and a bogey. Nothing psycho about it.
On the other side of things, it can’t be just a really bad round. I’ve seen plenty of scorecards posted on Twitter that ended in something like 78 but had an albatross and a birdie circled. That’s just a bad round with a couple of amazing swings.
The best way to explain a psycho scorecard is to find someone that shot even-par with few pars on the ‘card.
I’ll introduce Seth Reeves here to help. 
That, friends, is perfect. Simply perfect. Five birdies, three bogeys, two doubles, A FREAKIN’ HOLE-IN-ONE, and in with a 72. Just beautiful.
Here is a couple more:
The top ‘card, from Brandon Harkins, isn’t my favorite psycho scorecard because the round got away from him (5-over is right on the psycho ‘card cusp) but considering he made just four pars and tacked on five birdies at least has it in the running.
Vogel, on the other hand, was right around par with a stretch of four birdies in a row, five in six holes, a double-bogey smashed in the middle of it after a wild start to his day.
And considering everyone loves the Masters, I’ll leave you with Russell Henley’s second round back in 2018.
That psycho scorecard deserves a little green jacket to drape over it to stay warm and happy. Even-par. Magnificant.