Live Drafts

Two draft-night rituals, both live in the app. Every phone on the trip (and the TV display) shows the board fill in as picks land — no refreshing.

The portal home shows a draft night card as soon as a draft is set up (with its time once scheduled), a live banner while it runs, and a “draft complete” note until the result is applied; tap any of them to open the board. Nothing appears before a draft exists — captains and trip admins open Schedule → Set up a draft night to create one. Everyone on the trip can watch. Captains and vice captains can set a draft up, put it on the calendar, arrange or draw the order, and start it — and of course pick. Only trip admins can undo picks, finish early, cancel, or apply the result.

Where organizers run it

• Trip dashboard → tournament → Teams tab → Live drafts. This is the organizer’s control panel: set up the team draft, put draft night on the calendar, Start draft, draw the order, finish early, apply rosters or cancel. It works even if you’re not on the roster yourself — you don’t need a portal session to run a draft.
• Trip dashboard → round → Pairings tab → Live drafts. Drafts for that round. The card only appears once a draft exists for the round; until then the tab shows a Set up captains’ draft button (only when the round plays a team tournament or a Ryder Cup session) that opens it. If the round plays a team tournament whose captains draft their rosters (a three-captain invitational, a drafted best-ball — it does not have to be a Ryder Cup), Set up team draft is offered here with the tournament pre-selected, and you choose snake or set pick order. If a Ryder Cup session plays the round, Set up pairings draft is offered too (the round is pre-selected, and only the sessions that play it are offered). Put either on the calendar, start it, follow it live, then apply the rosters or matchups on the board.
• The trip’s Competitions tab shows every upcoming or running draft at the top, with the same Start button.
• The portal draft page (the draft night card on the portal home, or Schedule → Set up a draft night) is the board everyone watches and where captains pick. Captains, vice captains and rostered trip admins can set up, schedule and start from there too — no dashboard login needed.

Draft night on the calendar

Give a draft a date and time (local time at the trip) when you set it up, or later with Set time on the draft. It then appears as a golf event on the dashboard Calendar, on every player’s portal Schedule, and on the TV display’s schedule slide — “Team draft · Founding Fathers, Thu 7:00 PM”. The time is a plan, not a trigger: you still press Start draft when the room is ready, and the time locks once the draft is live. Cancelling a draft takes it off the calendar.

Team draft (captains pick rosters)

Built for the three-captain invitational, but it works for any tournament with two or more teams — including a Ryder Cup before the sides are set.

Setting up

1. Create the teams on the tournament’s Teams tab and name a captain for each (the captain picker lists the whole trip roster, so teams can start empty). Captains are seeded onto their own team and are never in the pool.
2. On the tournament’s Teams tab, open Set up team draft (or use Schedule → Set up a draft night → Team draft on the portal) and choose:
   • The tournament (already chosen from the Teams tab)
   • Draft night (optional) — puts the draft on the trip calendar
   • Draft order: Random draw (the app draws it and reveals the positions one at a time on every screen) or I’ll set the order (arrange the teams by hand before you start)
   • Pick pattern: Snake (1-2-3, 3-2-1, …) or Straight (1-2-3, 1-2-3, …)
   • Players per team (including the captain), or Draft everyone to keep going until the pool is empty
   • An optional pick timer
3. Draw or arrange the order (you can redraw until you start), then hit Start draft — from the Teams tab or the board.

Draft night

• The captain on the clock searches the pool, taps a player, and locks the pick in. Everyone else sees the pick land on that team’s column, the clock move to the next captain, and who’s on deck.
• The board shows each team’s roster with pick numbers, and the pool of players still available (sorted by handicap).
• The TV display switches to the draft board automatically while a draft is running.
• A trip admin can undo the last pick (repeatedly), finish early with the picks made so far, or cancel the draft.

After the last pick

The draft completes automatically when every team is full (or the pool is empty). A trip admin taps Apply rosters to teams — each team’s members become captain + picks in draft order, so team scorecards, points games, Ryder Cup sessions, and team leaderboards all use them with nothing re-entered.

Good to know:

• Applying replaces whatever members the teams had before. It’s blocked if the tournament already has recorded scores.
• One live draft per tournament — cancel or apply the current one to start another.
• Captains on a trip access link (no account) can draft. Realtime updates need a signed-in session; link-only viewers refresh every few seconds.

Pairings draft (Ryder Cup matchups)

Run your Ryder Cup pairings night live. Captains alternate — one captain puts a match out, the other answers with the opponents — and when the draft is done, one tap turns the matchups into the round’s official pairings, ready for scoring.

Setting up

1. Name your captains on the Ryder Cup’s Teams tab.
2. Open Schedule → Set up a draft night → Pairings draft on the portal (or the round’s Pairings tab on the dashboard) and choose:
   • The session (Fourball, Alternate Shot, Singles, …)
   • The round the matchups will play in
   • Pairs (2v2) or Singles (1v1) and the number of matches
   • Which team puts the first match out — the lead alternates every match after that, so both captains get the reaction advantage
   • An optional pick timer
   • An optional draft night time, so it shows on the schedule
3. Hit Start draft when everyone’s ready — on the board, or from the Ryder Cup’s Teams tab in the dashboard.

Draft night

• The captain on the clock sees their remaining roster and locks in a pick; players already put out are greyed out.
• Everyone else watches the matchup board update live.
• A trip admin can undo the last pick or cancel the draft.

After the last pick

A trip admin taps Apply to round, optionally with a first tee time and interval — the matchups become the round’s groups (lead pair listed first in each), so team scorecards, live match status, and the Ryder Cup scoreboard all work with nothing re-entered.

• Applying is blocked if the round already has scores — reset the round’s scorecards first if you’re re-drafting.
• One draft per session + round; cancel the old one to start over.

History at your fingertips

When your trip is linked into a trip series, the pick screen shows cross-trip records inline: pick one player and each candidate partner shows your career record together (“2-1 together”); in the answer phase, candidates show their record against the announced opponents. Refresh the history from the series page after each trip — records come from the actual Ryder Cup matches played through the app, so imported historical years without scorecards don’t contribute.