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Golf TripsOverview

Trip Planning

Plan and manage golf trips with friends, complete with competitions and expense tracking.

Everything for your buddy trip lives in one place: build the itinerary, run a Ryder Cup weekend or trip championship, track skins and nassau payouts, split expenses, and settle up with one tap. Players follow along in the Trip Portal — no accounts required.

Start here:

Overview

Golf Management makes buddy trips easy to organize:

  • Itinerary & Travel: Schedule rounds, coordinate flights, lodging, and tee times
  • Competitions: Run multi-round and single-round competitions (team and individual formats)
  • Expense & Wager Tracking: Full expense management with side game payouts and one-tap settlements
  • Communication: Keep everyone informed and on schedule

Key Features

Multi-Course Scheduling

  • Add multiple courses to your trip
  • Set tee times for each round
  • Manage course confirmations
  • Share course details with the group

Team Competitions

Create engaging competitions for your group:

Ryder Cup Format

  • Divide into teams
  • Multiple match formats (fourball, foursomes, singles)
  • Points accumulation across sessions
  • Automatic team standings

Season-Long Points

  • Track performance across multiple trips
  • Running leaderboard
  • End-of-season awards

Expense Management

  • Track shared expenses (greens fees, lodging, meals)
  • Split costs evenly or by participation
  • Settlement calculator
  • Payment tracking

Self-Serve Handicap Updates

Accurate handicaps keep net scoring fair — and players keep theirs current themselves:

  • Players: open the trip portal, go to Settings → My Handicap, enter your current index, and hit Save. Takes about 10 seconds. Plus handicaps (better than scratch) are entered with a +, like +1.2.
  • Organizers: the trip’s Players tab shows a freshness badge next to each handicap — amber when it’s more than 90 days old, red when it was never set.
  • One-click nudge: the Request handicap updates button on the Players tab sends every player an in-app, push, and email reminder with a direct link to their portal settings page.

This is the free interim until GHIN integration — players with a GHIN number will sync automatically once that lands.

Trip Admins (Co-Organizers)

Share the organizing load — or hand a whole trip to someone — without giving them access to everything else in your account:

  • Promote a player: on the trip’s Players tab, open the ⋯ menu next to a player and choose Make Trip Admin. A purple Admin badge appears on their row. Choose Remove Trip Admin from the same menu to revoke it.
  • What trip admins can do: edit the trip details, run the trip wizard, and manage the roster (add, edit, invite, and remove players — including promoting other trip admins) for that trip only.
  • What they see: a trip admin who is a regular member of your organization sees only the trips they’re rostered on in their dashboard — other trips in your account stay invisible to them.
  • Not yet on the platform? You can promote a player before they’ve accepted their invite. Admin rights kick in as soon as they create their account through the invite link.

The person who creates a trip is automatically its trip admin. Organization owners and admins can always manage every trip.

Regular players on the roster can view the trip from their dashboard and use the trip portal, but only trip admins and organization owners/admins can change trip details or the roster.

Inviting Players

Email invitations are for people who don’t have an account yet. If you invite an email that already belongs to a member of your organization — including your own — no email is sent: the invitation is recorded as Going and their account is linked to their roster spot immediately. Players whose invitation is accepted show as Going on the Players tab even before they’ve signed in.

Creating a Trip

The trip creation wizard walks you through setup in a few steps:

  1. Start — Create from scratch or copy a previous trip as a template
  2. Basics — Name, destination, dates
  3. Competitions — Choose games (skins, trip championship, scramble, nassau, etc.)
  4. Rounds — Set up rounds, assign courses, and link competitions to rounds
  5. Roster — Add players manually or use placeholders
  6. Review — Confirm everything before creating

Your progress is automatically saved — if you navigate away, the wizard resumes where you left off when you return.

Trip Types

Weekend Getaways

Quick trips with 2-3 rounds:

  • Simple scheduling
  • Casual competitions
  • Easy expense splitting

Golf Vacations

Week-long trips with daily golf:

  • Complex itinerary management
  • Multiple competition formats
  • Comprehensive expense tracking

Annual Traditions

Recurring trips with friends:

  • Historical records
  • Running statistics
  • Trophy tracking
  • Defending Champions card on the trip overview surfaces last year’s Trip Champion and Ryder Cup winner when the trip is linked to a series
Getting Started