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Practical, no-fluff playbooks for the person who runs the group — organizing, handicaps, pairings, and how to stop doing the parts a computer should handle.

How to Organize a Weekly Golf Group: A Step-by-Step Playbook

The complete playbook for running a recurring golf group — roster, RSVPs, pairings, reminders — and the case for letting software handle the parts that eat your week.

Read guide →7 min read

Setting Up Your Tournament: Run a Golf Event From Start to Finish

Bought an Event Pass? Start here: your course, your settings, the event, your golfers, then the guide for your format, printing, the live leaderboard and final results.

Read guide →6 min read

How to Set Up a Captain’s Choice Golf Tournament: Step-by-Step Event Setup

Every step of a captain’s choice event in the order it has to happen: teams, team handicaps, team codes, printed cards, the live leaderboard, ties and final results.

Read guide →7 min read

How to Set Up a Best Ball Golf Tournament: Step-by-Step Event Setup

Every step of a best ball event in the order it has to happen: teams, handicap allowances, the blind draw, printed cards, the live leaderboard, ties and payouts.

Read guide →8 min read

How to Set Up a Stroke Play Golf Tournament: Step-by-Step Event Setup

Every step of a stroke play event in the order it has to happen: groups, the handicap allowance, payouts and ties, scorecard codes, printed cards and the live leaderboard.

Read guide →8 min read

How to Set Up a Shamble Golf Tournament: Step-by-Step Event Setup

Every step of a shamble event in the order it has to happen: teams, the handicap allowance, the drive rule, the blind draw, printed cards with a team row, the live leaderboard, ties and payouts.

Read guide →8 min read

How to Set Up a Skins Game: Step-by-Step for Your Golf Group

Every step of a skins game for your weekly round: gross or net, carryover or pot, strokes off the low man or full handicap, who is in, following the skins and settling up.

Read guide →5 min read

How to Set Up a Nassau: Front, Back, Overall and Presses

Every step of a Nassau for your weekly round: groups, matches, strokes, presses, who is in, the Press? prompt on the hole screen, results and settling up.

Read guide →6 min read

How to Set Up Match Play: Singles or Four-Ball

Every step of match play for your weekly round: singles or four-ball, the strokes, who is in, following the matches hole by hole, results and settling up.

Read guide →5 min read

How to Set Up Stableford: Points, Pot or Per Point

Every step of a Stableford for your weekly round: within each group or the whole field, net or gross, the allowance, a pot (front, back and overall too) or so much a point, who is in, results and settling up.

Read guide →5 min read

How to Set Up Sixes: Three Six-Hole Matches, Partners by Cart

Every step of Sixes for your weekly round: the foursomes, strokes and presses, the Carts card on the first tee, the match-over note at 6 and 12, results and settling up.

Read guide →6 min read

How to Set Up Closest to the Pin for Your Golf Group

Every step of closest to the pin for your weekly round: holes, must make par, the money, claiming a hole on the course, fixing a mis-tap and settling up.

Read guide →4 min read

How to Set Up Dots: Birdies, Sandies and Polies

Every step of a dots game: which dots count, individuals or teams, marking sandies and polies on the hole screen, fixing a dot and settling up.

Read guide →4 min read

How to Set Up Putts Differential for Your Golf Group

Every step of a putts game: the wager, who is in, entering putts on every hole, and how each pair settles the difference in total putts.

Read guide →4 min read

How to Set Up a Stroke Play Game for Your Golf Group

Every step of a weekly stroke play game: net or gross, the allowance, buy-in and paid places, front and back nines, who is in, ties and settling up.

Read guide →5 min read

How to Set Up a Best Ball Game for Your Golf Group

Every step of a weekly best ball game: teams from your pairings, 2-man, best 1 or 2 of 3, or best 1, 2 or 3 of 4, allowances, buy-in and places, and settling up.

Read guide →5 min read

Getting Started with Tee Time Organizer: Set Up Your Golf Group Step by Step

New to Tee Time Organizer? Start here: set up courses and players, create and publish your first tee time, send reminders and set pairings, in the order it has to happen.

Read guide →10 min read

Scoring Your Golf Rounds: Live Scoring, Yardage, Leaderboards and Stats

Score on your phone hole by hole or after the round. TTO adds it all up, shows yards to the green and a live leaderboard, and builds every player’s stats.

Read guide →9 min read

Player Guide: How to Use the Tee Time Organizer App

Everything a player needs: open the app, set your handicap and tee, reserve a spot, see your group, play in events, and score and post to GHIN.

Read guide →8 min read

How to Choose Golf Pairings: Random, Balanced, or Fixed (and When Each Wins)

Random, balanced by handicap, or fixed groups? The right pairing method depends entirely on what you are trying to accomplish. A decision guide for organizers.

Read guide →7 min read

Organizing a Golf Group by Email vs Software: The Real Cost of the Manual Way

Email chains, reply-all texts, and a yellow notepad work — until they don’t. A clear-eyed look at what the manual method costs you, your players, and your club, and what changes with a real tool.

Read guide →9 min read