This article details the "Tournaments & Scoring" tab (shown below) found in the Default Settings, Event/League Profile, and Round Profile.
Default Settings for Leagues and Events: (Customer Center > Customer Settings > Default Settings for Leagues and Events) These are your customer-level settings. Any event or league you create will have these settings applied. Any changes to these settings will not apply to events and leagues already created. Click Here for details.
Event/League Profile: (League/Event > League/Event Profile) These settings are accessed and applied to specific events and leagues. When creating a new event or league, the settings are cloned from the Default Settings in your Customer Center. Click Here for details.
Round Profile: (Rounds > Round Profile) These settings are applied to a specific round within an event or league. They are cloned from the Event/League Profile. Click Here for details.
In summary, your Default Settings propagate to the Event/League Profile of all your events and leagues which also propagate further to all of the rounds within that league or event.
Round Status:
Note: This feature is available only available by request for Golf Genius TM Club Premium, Association, and Trip Manager customers.
Typically only used for leagues, you can automate round status changes to "In Progress" and "Completed." For more details on automating round status, Click Here.
Leaderboards:
How do you want to rank players on the leaderboard?: In cases where mixed tournament competitions are played where the tees have different par's (e.g., women's tee has a different than the men's tee, you can select how you'd like the leaderboard scored and ranked. You can rank by net score or "to Par". For more details on this option, Click Here. Note: This option is only available if you are calculating Course Handicap without applying relative par difference (option found in the Handicap Settings tab of the Event Profile).
Select a default tie breaking method: No need to break ties manually. Select your tie-breaking method here. If you need to override this for a specific tournament, you can do that as well when setting up that tournament. For more info on these tie-breaking methods, Click Here.
When "retain ties" is used, how do you want to rank the players?: For competitions where tie breaking is not used (ties retained), the tied players can be ordered on the leaderboard using one of the following methods:
Rank by USGA method: By Tee Time (for the current round), Course Priority (controlled in the Course Details for the event/league), Starting Hole (for the current round), and Position in the Pairing Group (order in which the player is organized on the tee sheet within his/her pairing group).
Rank by PGA Method: By Tee Time, Position in Pairing Group, Starting Hole, and Course Priority)
Rank by JGA method (Attestation Sequence Number) (JGA Customer Only): By the attestation sequence number for a player, set when entering scores. For more details, Click Here.
Do you want to apply tie breaking to in progress leaderboards?: If using live scoring, you can retain or break ties for players/teams who have completed their round (while the round is in progress). Click Here for more details.
Choose whether you would like to display additional information on the leaderboard: Select the custom fields (if any) to be displayed next to player names on the leaderboard. Custom fields like affiliation, city, state, and home club are typically displayed next to player names on the leaderboard. Click "+" to select and display multiple custom fields next to player names. See the example below of a leaderboard that includes player city and state.
For details on setting additional information by tournament, Click Here.
Customize the leaderboard header: The column headers (shown below) for your leaderboard, tv leaderboard, and printed leaderboards, can be renamed. This is helpful in cases where you'd like to shorten the header titles or adjust the terminology. For more details, Click Here.
Flight Name on Leaderboards: If the name of the Flight does not already contain the word "Flight", it is automatically added (e.g., If a flights name is "Nicklas", it will appear in the leaderboard as "Nicklas Flight"). Check the option "Do not append the word "Flight" to the Flight Name on Leaderboards" to remove the word "Flight" from being automatically appended to a Flight's Name on Leaderboards.
Participation Points:
Typically only used for leagues, players/teams can earn participation points for every round in which they play. You can also set the minimum number of holes that need to be played in order to earn participation points.
Participation points can be awarded to players, teams, or players and teams. When selecting teams, you must select which team list for participation points to be awarded. If you have large teams, you can also set the maximum number of players per team who are eligible to earn participation points applied to the team. These points only go to league/event standings. They do not go to season points.
Points and Purse:
There are two Points and Purse options:
Do you want a player acting as a Blind to share in purse and points just like any actual player in the group?: They would essentially be "double dipping". For instance, in a Four-Ball competition, If Steve is partnered with Jeff, he will receive points for this performance on that team. If another team is missing a player, and Steve is selected as the blind for that missing player, he will also receive points for his performance with that team.
Are the purse and points for a pair or pairing group fully allocated even if the pair or pairing group is missing players?: Click on whether you want all the points or purse to be paid out if a player on a team is missing or the team is using a blind. For instance, if the pot for the winning team is 100 points in a competition using foursomes, and the winning team is only a threesome (playing with a blind), each player will get 25 points. However, if you check the box here, the threesome will split the points evenly (33.33 points each)
Totals or Hole-by-Hole Scores:
When entering scores for a round:
How would you like to enter scores?
for each hole
as 9-hole totals
as 18-hole totals
18 hole score entry is the quickest way to enter scores because you enter only one number for each player. However, when using 9 Hole or 18 hole score entry, there are some limitations:
Match Play, Quota, Skins, and Other Formats will not be available or score correctly
Decreases the amount and depth of statistics and analytics for players.
Restricts you to only stroke play tournaments.
Restricts you from posting scores to your handicap service provider.
For details on entering 9-hole and 18-hole totals, Click Here.
When playing a match play tournament, how do you want match results to be entered? Match Play tournaments have an alternative entry method. Instead of entering hole-by-hole strokes for each golfer, you can opt for selecting the winning individual/team per hole. Note: Only available when "for each hole" is selected.
Stokes: Enter the strokes on the hole and Golf Genius will determine the hole winner.
Winner per Hole: Instead of entering the stokes on the hole, just enter, Win/Tile/Loss. Note: There are some limitation to this method, as it decrease the depth of statistics and analytics and restricts you from posting scores to your handicap service provider.
For more details on match play tournaments, Click Here.
18 / 9 Hole Scoring:
This selection is used primarily to help with determining statistics for the round. If all or most of the rounds are 18-hole rounds, select that option. Otherwise, select 9-hole rounds.
Player Separator:
Select the symbol that will separate player names on a team leaderboard
The leaderboard above used the "+" symbol as a separator.
Currency Symbol:
We will use the selected currency symbol on the leaderboard and payout reports.
Default Extra Holes (Round Only):
When using extra holes for a match play tie-breaker, you can predefine the extra holes to be used. For more details, Click Here.
Stableford and Quota:
There are options on how to rank live (In Progress) leaderboards for Stableford and Quota tournaments.
Score In Progress Stableford in Relation to Par: When playing Stableford, by default, the leaderboard is ranked by the total Stableford Points. However, when live scoring is used, sometimes it is preferred that the leaderboard is ranked in Relation to Par.
Score In Progress Quota in relation to Trend Quota: If checked, live Quota tournament leaderboards will be ranked by trend quota instead of +/- Quota. Click Here for an FAQ explaining the two options in detail.
College Scoring:
There are options on how to rank live (In Progress) leaderboards for College Scoring formats, Best Team Players and Best Team Scores.
Considered part of the team score and displayed as even par for the round: If this option is chosen, during a round set to inprogress, players will be considered to be part of the team score even if they have no scores. These players will be considered to be even par.
Not considered part of the team score and displayed as no score for the round: If this option is chosen, during a round set to inprogress, players will not be considered to be part of the team score until at least one score is entered. These players will be displayed no score even par for the round and are not considered part of the team score.
On Course Leaderboard:
Note: This feature is available only available by request for Premium or Association Customers.
The On-Course Leaderboard feature allows managers or scoring officials to push leaderboard statuses to officials on the course using a mobile device with internet access. For more details, Click Here.
Display Options:
Color Scores: The standard coloring of scores on a leaderboard (portal, tv display, mobile app) is red for under par, green for even par, and black for over par. However, if you'd like to change the coloring, you can do it here.
Display Course Abbreviations: If multiple courses are used for an event, you can have the course abbreviation listed next to the scores on the leaderboard. For more details on this, Click Here.
Display Country/State Flags and Team Logos on the Leaderboard: If players have been assigned countries or states, you can display their flags next to their names on the leaderboards. Or, if you are using teams, display your team's logo on the leaderboard. For Details:
Click Here for detailed instructions on adding country flags.
Click Here for detailed instructions on adding state flags.
Click Here for detailed instructions on adding team logos.
Hide Purse from Public Leaderboard Displays: If awarding a purse for your tournaments, you can hide the purse column and purse summary from all public leaderboards (e.g., tv display, portal, mobile app). The purse will still be visible on the Manager Site by going to Rounds > Display Leaderboard.
Show "F" for Verified Scores: If using a verification station on the mobile app, you can have the leaderboard display a "F" to show that the scores have been verified
Japanese Alphabet Sorting Method (Japan Customers Only): Enabled by defualt. Golfer names derived from Kanji will be ordered by their corresponding Kana spellings. This applies both when using the “Override with Kanji names” handle creation method and when employing custom handles that may combine Kanji, English, and Kana. In all cases, the priority is Kana Last Name, then Kana First Name, and finally the Actual Handle if no Kana spellings are available.
Do not show blinds on the leaderboard: If you are using blinds for a tournament and do not want the blinds shown on the leaderboard, enable this option. For more details, Click Here.
Display round and cumulative scores for non-active players on the leaderboard: Check this box to show the scores of non-active players in the round and cumulative scores totals columns. A non-active player is any player whose status has changed from active to non-active (i.e., WD, DQ, NS, NC, DNF). Note: A non-active player's status will always be visible in the Rank Column regardless of this setting. For more details, Click Here.
Select the format used when displaying the point summaries: For match play event you have two options to display the point summary:
Horizontal View: Points displayed in a table.
Match Play View: Intended for Team v. Team competitions (e.g., Ryder Cup Tournaments). The view highlights the winning team based on total points awarded in Team v. Team Match Tournaments. You will also have two additional options:
Additional message that will be displayed on the summary: This will display a message above the points and logo (if used).
Display logo as part of the Team Points Summary: The Event logo will be displayed between the points summary instead of the word "Vs."
Select the display used for Hole by Hole View: Select the hole-by-hole view format that will be displayed on the leaderboard when looking at a golfers score. There are three options (Click Here for details):
Colors - Colors will be used in indicating a players score.
Circles and Squares - Circles and Squares will be used to indicate a players score.
No birdie/bogey indicators - No indicators will be used to indicate a players score.
Name Format: Select the name format to be displayed on leaderboards.
