Golf bracket generator

When the field is not a power of two, the bracket rounds up to the next size and the empty first-round places are byes. A player with a bye goes straight into round two. Byes go to the top seeds, so 12 players in a 16-slot bracket means seeds 1 to 4 have a bye, and two byes never meet.

In single elimination you lose once and you are out, so a field of N needs N − 1 matches. In double elimination your first loss drops you into a losers bracket and a second loss puts you out; it needs 2N − 2 matches, or 2N − 1 if the grand final has to be replayed.

The winner of the losers bracket has already lost once, the winners-bracket champion has not. If the losers-bracket winner takes the grand final, both now have one loss, so a reset final decides it. Without a reset, one grand final decides the title.

Use a draw nobody can choose. Here the seed is made by Parful’s server when you press Draw and the time is stamped, so you can show members how the draw was made and anyone can re-run it from the seed and the list to check it.

Yes. Tap a match and tap who won: the winner moves on at once, and in double elimination the loser drops into the losers bracket. You can change or clear a result at any time, and if that would undo later results the page lists them and asks before anything changes.

Press Save and share. You get a link and a QR code that anyone can open on their phone to follow the bracket live, with no account, and a manage code so only you can record results. A saved bracket is kept for 12 months after its last change.

Press Print bracket for the draw with names and results, or Print blank for an empty sheet to fill in by hand. It prints landscape on Letter or A4 with a box for every score, and a big field runs over a few sheets that say where each winner goes next.

Yes. Parful Clubs runs knockouts free for clubs of up to 16 members: the draw, matches settled from the scorecards, walkovers and concessions, and a public bracket page your members can follow on their phones.