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Golf society app

Run your golf society in one app, from the fixture list to the annual dinner

A golf society plays many courses: the same members at a different venue every month, handicaps kept by the society itself and a season that ends with a dinner and a prize list. Parful Clubs runs all of it: the committee on a laptop, the members on their phones, with nothing to download.

For the secretary of a forty-member society that plays twelve Sundays at twelve courses, the captain of a senior group that meets on Tuesday mornings, and the women’s section that runs its own order of merit.

Free for up to 16 active members. From 17 to 300 members it is $9.99 a month after a 30-day full-access trial, and over 300 the price is set with you.

A society season: thirty-six members, twelve fixtures

Twelve Sundays at twelve courses, an order of merit, a summer knockout and captain’s day in September.

Before the season
Import the roster from the association export, check the flagged duplicates, set a Seniors section for the Tuesday group, and create twelve outings with a course and tee time each. One order-of-merit standing counting the best eight of twelve, plus a singles knockout seeded from the first two Sundays.
Each Sunday
Registration opens Monday, groups are generated Friday, the tee sheet reaches the host pro shop at 06:00, and members score from phones and run their own skins.
Knockout weekends
The round of matches is assigned to that Sunday’s outing, so the matches resolve from the cards and the public bracket page updates.
Captain’s day
A foursomes competition on the outing for the pairs race, winners read from the prize winners sheet at the bar. No individual side games, because the card belongs to the team.
After the last Sunday
Close out, print the prize list, the season standings and the attendance register for the dinner, and let the standing name the champion.

The roster, the handicaps and the fixture list

Import the roster from your association’s standard member export; likely duplicates are flagged at import. Every member carries a handicap on the roster, and the society keeps it.

Each fixture is an outing: a date, a course and a tee time. The course brings its tees, ratings and slopes from a database of more than 30,000 courses, with a builder for anywhere it does not cover, so playing handicaps are worked out per course and tee on the day. Every outing scores gross, net and Stableford; a scramble, foursomes, match play round or the club championship type is a competition assigned to the day. Each competition carries its format’s usual handicap allowance (90% for four-ball better ball), which the committee can change.

  • Membership categories, sections and tags for the senior and women’s groups inside a bigger society
  • Registration from phones with capacity, waitlists and guests; card checkout through the club store
  • Groups and tee times from the entry list; the tee sheet emailed to the host pro shop at 06:00 on the day

On the day: score from the course, follow it from the clubhouse

One scorer per group enters scores in the phone browser from a QR code, PIN or link. Nothing to download and no account for the scorer. Gross, net and Stableford resolve from the same card, the live leaderboard moves as holes land, and the host club’s television can carry the board from the outing’s display link.

Side games belong to the players, not the committee. A signed-in member starts one from the outing page: skins, a Nassau, Wolf, Vegas, a birdie pool across the whole field and thirty more, counted gross, net or Stableford. Most games read the strokes on the card. A few need a little more on the hole: Wolf the partner pick, Snake and fewest putts the putts, closest to the pin the winner, and fairway or bunker games their marks. A wager is optional and starts only once every affected player has accepted the terms, with a maximum-loss cap. Results freeze at close-out.

  • Games that read individual strokes are refused on a team card
  • Group scorecards and an attendance sheet print from the Report Center for societies that like paper

The order of merit and the annual dinner

Close-out is one action: the day’s prizes resolve, the standings move, every round is recorded and the public results page goes live while people are still at the bar. Standings build from finalized outings only, so an outing that was never closed out moves nothing until someone finishes it.

The order of merit is a standing: points by finishing position, a Stableford league that sums the season, an eclectic or ringer across the courses, or your own points table. It can count a member’s best rounds rather than all of them, which is how a society forgives the two Sundays everyone misses, and divisions run their own races. A singles or doubles knockout runs across the season the same way, its matches assigned to the outings and resolved from the cards.

  • The public standings page is on the society’s club site, so who is leading has one answer
  • The Report Center prints the prize list, season standings, season summary, skill prize standings and attendance register
  • The season rolls over with the roster and handicaps intact; next year’s fixtures start by duplicating this year’s
The dinner sheets: prize list, season standings and attendance register, previewed exactly as they print.

Worth knowing before you move the society across

  • Every society gets the full product, whatever it pays, with no feature gates.
  • Dues are tracked, not collected. Parful records who has paid and who is about to lapse, and sends reminders; take the money the way the society already does.
  • Inter-society matches against another society are not part of the product. A team cup weekend inside the society (two teams, sessions, a cup board) is.
  • Moving mid-season is normal. Standings build from the outings finalized in Parful, so the race runs from the point you move.

Golf society questions

What app should I use to run a golf society?

Golf society management software that holds the roster, the fixture list and the handicaps together, because a society’s results depend on all three. Parful Clubs keeps the members and their handicap indexes on one roster, makes each fixture an outing at its own course, scores from phones with a live leaderboard, and builds the order of merit from the closed-out results. Up to 16 active members is free; bigger societies start with a 30-day full-access trial.

Can the society keep its own handicaps?

Yes. Each player’s handicap sits on the roster and the club keeps it: entered by hand, imported from a spreadsheet or updated in bulk, with every change in the player’s history. Playing handicaps come from the course’s tees, rating and slope. Every round is recorded as score history, and Parful never works an index out from it. Official numbers can be recorded under the player’s country’s system; no live link to a national handicap service is switched on today.

How do we run an order of merit for the year?

Create a standing and pick its basis: placing points, a Stableford sum, an eclectic, a ringer or your own points table. Choose which outings count, optionally count only each member’s best rounds, and add divisions if you want separate races. Standings build from finalized outings only, and the public standings page updates at each close-out.

Can we run a senior group and a women’s group inside one society?

Yes. Sections declare who an outing is open to and who is eligible for a standing, so the Tuesday seniors and the women’s section can have their own outings and their own standings on one roster. Membership categories and tags cover the rest of the labeling.

Is there a golf society app to download?

There is nothing to download. Parful runs in the phone browser: members open the society’s link and sign in, and scorers need only the QR code or link and the PIN. It can be added to the home screen of an iPhone or an Android phone.

Set the society up before the first fixture

Import the roster, build the year’s outings and let the order of merit run itself. Free for up to 16 members; bigger societies start with a 30-day full-access trial.