We play off different tees. Will the net column be right?
Yes. Every course handicap comes from
the tee actually being played — its own slope and rating — and the format’s allowance goes on top. A tee with no rating says so rather than guessing. Worked by the same engine that scores the round:
Handicap index12.4
Course rating / slope71.5 / 140
Course handicap16
Four-ball allowance90%
Playing handicap14
Is this an official WHS handicap?
No, and it does not pretend to be. A Handicap Index is issued by a national association from a golfer’s full record across every club they play — that figure is the authority, and where a player has one, TourneyHQ uses it and never overwrites it. The published method is another matter: converting an index to a course handicap with slope and rating is arithmetic clubs have done by hand for a century, and that is what this does. Where a player has no association figure, it can work a club handicap from the cards your club already holds — labelled as your club’s own number, never called an Index.
Half our field won’t use a phone. Can staff enter the cards?
Yes, and both ways work in the same event. Scores can be entered by organizers and assistants only or by the players themselves, hole by hole during the round or afterwards as a finished card. Paper gets typed in — or pasted from a spreadsheet.
What happens when someone disputes a score?
A card runs entered → certified → approved, and who certifies it is your choice: a playing partner, someone from the other side, or everyone in the match. A challenged card is marked disputed, then left out of the standings and named — never quietly averaged in. Reopening one is logged.
Our course isn’t in any app. Can we add it?
Add it once — tees, pars, stroke index — and it scores every round played there afterwards. Worth entering carefully rather than guessing: a wrong stroke index is a wrong net column for every competition you ever run on it. Which is also why our own catalogue is smaller than it could be: a card the importer cannot trust is filed with the reason it was refused, rather than quietly scored against — so you never inherit somebody else’s wrong stroke index.
Somebody misses a week. Does that wreck the league table?
No. A round nobody played is not a zero — counting the absence would put the absentee top of a net table. Only returned cards are added up, and the table shows a Pld column so nobody mistakes two totals for being over the same number of weeks.
We run a weekly league and a championship. Same system?
Same system, different settings — and the settings live on each tournament, not on the club. One keeps a season table; the other takes a cut and a bracket. The roster, the courses and the honours board are shared.
Can more than one of us run it?
Invite assistants and they work the same live event alongside you, with roles deciding what each can touch. Every change is attributed and logged, so “who reopened that card” has an answer rather than an argument.
Can we run flights and still crown one overall winner?
Both, and it is one decision rather than two that can disagree. A cut is how many and out of what: a count or a percentage, taken overall so one strong flight can fill most of the places, or per flight so every flight sends someone through whatever the others shot.
Can we finish the season with a knockout?
Yes — seeded straight from the standings, three ways: one bracket, two flights drawn from the top and bottom half, or main plus plate, where first-round losers drop into a second draw so nobody’s season ends on a Saturday morning. Byes handle themselves.
Can we just reuse last year’s setup?
Copy it in a click. What carries is a deliberate allowlist of settings — format, course, tees, flights, contests, scoring rules — so a field added to the app next year is dropped from the copy rather than silently carried. Last year’s results never come with it.
How much do we have to set up before we start?
A name. Dates, the course, the field and the format all come next — and every one of them stays editable, right through the event.
Who can see the leaderboard?
Organizers only, organizers and players, or anyone with the link. Nothing is visible outside the club until you publish it, and the public board carries names and scores only — contact details never appear on it.
What will it cost?
Not settled — and we would rather say that than post a number and move it. What we can promise: it is priced on capacity, not per player, so a fuller field never costs more. The list below hears the answer first.
When can we use it?
Early access goes out in waves. Put your email in below and tell us what you run — a member-guest, a society season, a weekly league — and you’ll be in the first wave that fits it.