Guide · Creator Kit Golf
A scorecard graphic is a quick way to give viewers context — what hole, what score, who's leading — without cutting away from the footage. It also gives a good round a natural, shareable moment. Here's how to think about building them for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
On its own, a clip of a golf shot doesn't tell a viewer much: what hole is this, what's par, is this a good score? A scorecard overlay answers that at a glance, and it gives the footage a broadcast feel rather than a raw phone clip. It's also a natural end card — a clean summary graphic of a great round is the kind of thing viewers actually screenshot and share.
Short-form video is vertical, so the overlay needs to be too. A small, corner-sized HUD works best here — it should add context without covering the shot. Keep it compact enough that it doesn't compete with on-screen captions.
For a widescreen course vlog or round breakdown, a horizontal overlay sized for a lower corner is the standard placement. It can stay on screen longer than a Shorts overlay since there's more room and less competition for attention.
For a post that isn't tied to a video clip at all — an end-of-round recap on Instagram or a summary graphic — a full-frame scorecard image works better than a small HUD. It's meant to be read on its own, not layered over footage.
The idea itself is simple. What's tedious is the execution: building a fresh graphic for every hole, keeping the running total correct as the round goes on, and exporting each one at the right size for the right platform. Hand-building that in a general design tool means duplicating a layout and retyping numbers dozens of times per round.
Creator Kit Golf is a browser-based tool built specifically for this workflow. Enter a round once — course, par, yardage, and each player's score hole by hole — and it renders that data into one of 26 broadcast-style scorecard templates (310+ color/style combinations), then exports every hole and every shot as an individually named, transparent PNG, organized into per-hole folders in a single ZIP. It supports stroke play, match play, and Stableford scoring for up to 4 players, and exports in horizontal, vertical, and full-scorecard-summary formats at up to 4K — covering the Shorts, long-form, and end-of-round-post cases above without switching tools. Exports are plain transparent PNGs, so they drop straight into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, CapCut, or any other editor with no plugin or green screen needed.
No account or install needed to try it. The Studio is free to use for building and previewing exports; a paid plan is only required to download the finished files and license the tool to your channel.