Running an Outing

An outing is for a golf trip, a corporate or charity day, a member-guest, or a bachelor party — anything where the rounds don't all look the same.

The difference from a league or tournament is simple: every round is set up on its own. Its own date, tee time, course, tee set, 9 or 18 holes, format, and list of who's playing. Two rounds can even fall on the same day — a morning shotgun scramble and an afternoon stroke-play eighteen are just rounds 1 and 2.

Outings come out of their own yearly allowance, separate from your leagues and tournaments, so running one doesn't use up an event.

Creating an outing

From Outings → Create an outing, the builder has five steps.

1. Basics. Name it and add a subtitle. There's no public/private choice here — an outing is always invite-only, and it's deliberately left out of "Find an event" so a private trip stays private.

2. Course & tees. Add every course the trip plays. Multiple courses is on by default, because most outings move around; each round picks from this list in the next step.

3. Rounds. This step is the outing. Each round card carries its own date, tee-off time, start format (tee times or shotgun), 9 or 18 holes, course, and format. + Add another round adds one on the next day; Add a round this day puts a second round on the same date. You can build up to 40 rounds.

4. Format & scoring. This sets the default that new rounds start from — not a rule for the whole event. Any round can differ.

5. Review & create. Check it over and create; you land on the outing's page.

Setting the tee-time interval per round is an outing-only thing. Leagues and tournaments set one interval for the whole event, but an outing might want ten minutes between groups on Saturday and eight on Sunday.

Running it

Everything about how a round is played lives on the outing's page, not in its settings. Pick a round from the timeline and its tabs open below it:

• Tee sheet — create or re-do the pairings, print the sheet, and open score entry. Pairings are drawn from that round's players, not from everyone on the outing.
• Players — tick who's playing this round. "Everyone plays" is one click.
• Course & tees, Format & scoring, Details (date, tee time, start format, holes) and Rules — each belongs to that round alone. Changing one round never touches another.
• Leaderboard — appears once the round is underway.

+ Add round above the timeline adds one whenever plans change, and a round can be removed right up until it's been played. Rounds always renumber themselves into date-and-time order, so adding a Friday morning nine to a weekend trip puts it where it belongs.

The roster on the right is everyone invited to the outing — the pool each round's field is picked from. Outing settings covers the name, subtitle, cover photo, field cap, prizes, and who else can manage it. Everything else is per round.

Standings work differently

An outing keeps no overall standings. Each round has its own leaderboard and that's it.

That's deliberate rather than missing. The rounds in an outing aren't comparable: a scramble and a stroke-play round measure different things, and a nine and an eighteen aren't the same test. Adding them up would produce a number that looks meaningful and isn't.

Each round's leaderboard ranks on whatever that round's format calls for — a Stableford round ranks on points, a stroke-play round on strokes. Ties share a position, and anyone absent or without a card is left off.

Inviting people

Anyone you add to the roster is told automatically — by email, or by text if that's all you have for them — and gets I'm in / Can't make it buttons they can use without an account. They're on the roster either way; until they answer you'll see an Invited chip beside their name.

If you've run something before, Invite from a past event brings the whole roster across in one go.

Where outings show up

Outings are first-class everywhere else in the app:

• My Schedule and the dashboard's "This week" strip mix outing rounds in with your league and tournament rounds, each row marked O so you can tell them apart at a glance.
• My Stats counts outing rounds in your scoring, with its own Outings scope. Outing rows carry no finishing position, since there's no overall ranking to have one.
• My Outings lists the ones you're part of.
• Your data export and account deletion cover outings like anything else.