Tournaments
A tournament links several rounds into one competition, with leaderboards that add every round up as it's played. A three-round club championship has a correct overall standing from the first card in, and it can run a net and a gross leaderboard side by side, or a leaderboard for each division.
See it in action
Watch the walkthrough
Kevin opens Kloofsig's Club Championship. He's won the net leaderboard off 24, and Thabo, off scratch, has won the gross. Then he opens round 1 and checks his own scorecard, hole by hole.
How to follow a tournament
Step 1Find your club's tournaments
Open your club from the Clubs tab. Its page features the next tournament, or the latest one, and See all lists every tournament.
Step 2Open the tournament
The tournament shows how many rounds it has and when they're played.
Step 3Check the leaderboard
Every round adds up. TOT is your strokes across all the rounds, and NET is your score to par across them all.
Step 4Switch leaderboards
Tap another tab to see that leaderboard. Here the gross board, with no handicaps, has a different winner.
Step 5Open any player's scorecard
Tap a round on the tournament, then its Leaderboard, and tap any player to open their scorecard.
Knockout tournaments
Follow the bracket
A knockout is a bracket of matchplay matches instead of a leaderboard. Win your match to go through to the next round. Bracket on the tournament shows every round's matches.
Running a tournament
For club admins, in the Putt club portal. Get in touch with the Putt team to set the tournament up with you: its type (one format, divisions, or a knockout), and its leaderboards or divisions. Your club then runs it from Tournaments.
Step 1Add the rounds
Add Round adds a round on a course and date, and every leaderboard covers every round. A round can be edited until it starts and deleted until its date has passed. Until the tournament is published, Publish now shows above its tabs, and members see it once it's published.
Step 2Follow the leaderboard
The Leaderboard tab ranks the field across every round. With more than one leaderboard, pick one from the list beside the search. The Leaderboard button at the top opens the live leaderboard, with each round's score, once the tournament is published.
Step 3Add the players
The Registrations tab is the field. Add registrant adds club members, Import adds a list, and each row can be edited or removed. Settings can unpublish or delete the tournament.
Knockouts
A knockout has a Bracket tab instead of a leaderboard. The club approves each result before the next round opens, and can record a concession or a walkover.
Golf-day tournaments
For anyone running a golf day over more than one round, in the Putt web portal. Each round needs a voucher from Putt: see Golf Days for how to get one, and how players join a round.
Step 1Start with a voucher
On Tournaments, enter your voucher code and select Use Voucher. Give the tournament a name, a game type and a handicap allowance, and Create it. The voucher is only used once you add a round.
Step 2Add each round with a new voucher
Add Round asks for a voucher, a course and a date, and each round uses its own voucher. The tournament also has Live Leaderboard and Report, and Leaderboard, Registrations and Settings tabs.
Things to know
- Players don't sign themselves up. The club or organiser adds them on the Registrations tab.
- In a knockout, only registered players can play, and you need to be registered before you set up your round.
- Choose the tournament's type and leaderboards up front. The type can't change once it's set up, and the leaderboards lock once the first round is added.
- A tournament's leaderboards use Individual Medal (Gross), Individual Medal (Net) or IPS.
- A knockout has 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 players, plays Individual Medal (Net) matchplay, and has one round for each halving of the field. Knockouts don't use divisions.
- A round a player misses adds nothing to their total.
- Golf-day tournaments aren't listed on a club's page in the app. Players join each round as they would a golf day.
Why we built this
Plenty of golf isn't decided in a single round. A club championship runs over two or three days, and a society tour over a long weekend. Putt already scored each round properly, but the competition that mattered, the total, lived in a spreadsheet someone updated between rounds, so the standings were always a round behind. Tournaments make the total the real competition, updated as the scores come in.
The screenshots and video use example players, not real people.
