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2021 Release Announcement

Updated over a month ago

December 15, 2021

New TV Shows Slides
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Earlier this year, we launched the new TV Shows feature which dramatically improved the flexibility and customization of the TV leaderboards our customers know and love. We are further expanding the TV Shows functionality with today’s release by adding three new slides: Photo Slide, Video Slide, and Text Slide.

All of these new slides work with the existing Split Screen functionality, where the user can group any two slides into a single screen, as seen below. The new slides also look great using a Fire TV Stick to display them without the need for a computer.

For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Team Round Robin Leagues
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Streamline your team head-to-head matchup league with our new League Tournaments feature. We took the look and feel for this feature straight from our easy-to-use Quick Event Setup. With a few simple clicks, automatically create team head-to-head matchups based on round-robin seeding, along with the competition for each round. Leagues with large teams often play this type of competition, allowing players to play any time during the day and have their score count for the league standings each week.

If you have a league that would benefit from this type of setup, or if you have any questions, please reach out to our Support Team.

For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Enhancements & Improvements
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  • Option to include cut players in Gross Summary Board Report

  • Support for 64 Players per Region in large Bracket Tournaments

  • When moving players off the waitlist, Divisional Registration player limits are now enforced

  • The Group View Page now supports Match Play rounds

  • Added Low Handicap Index as an option in "Average of.." Handicap Index update

  • Auto-populate Divisions based on the course assigned in Edit Pairings

  • Tee Abbreviations for all players can be printed on Scorecards and in the system Tee Sheet Reports

  • Bracket Tournament setup has been improved including rewording the text, reordering the regions, and improving the display of the regions

  • Bracket Tournament setup has also been updated allowing managers to more easily select rounds for the Bracket

  • The Roster Activity Log has been improved to show the update method used when Handicap Index was updated

  • Points and Purse Text in Tournament setup has been improved

November 11, 2021

Text Messaging Contact Lists
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With this release, we have added the ability to create lists of Contacts that can later be used for quickly sending Text Messages. These lists of Contacts have been added at the Customer Center and Event level with an option to group them in Distribution Lists.

Our player-oriented text messaging has also received an update to include filters based on Custom Fields.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Handicap Index Import Enhancements
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The following enhancements have been done in the area of Handicap Index import:

  • Added the option to import "Low Handicap Index" from GHIN, as defined in Rule 5.7 of the Rules of Handicapping

  • We have added the ability to automatically sync updated Master Roster Handicap Indexes into Event Roster (only available for GHIN and UK WHS)


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Additional Enhancements
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Usability Enhancements
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  • Highlight name discrepancies when updating to Current Handicap Index from GHIN

  • Bracket & Match Play Tournaments now default to "Net (Off Lowest)" for handicapping

  • Managers now have the same ability to select "Guest Profiles" as players

  • New Pre-Play Audit error when a Scramble or Alternate Shot tournament overlaps same holes as other formats

  • New Customer Managers not automatically subscribed to Daily Digest

  • Added ability for a manager to delete Player Profile photos

  • New search function added to Season Points Standings pages

  • "Filter by Season" added to Spreadsheet Composer in Customer Center

  • Added check box to "Show Tee Abbreviations for All Players" on Portal Tee Sheet page

  • Auto-populate cursor into the first available field when navigating to page (36 pages updated)

  • Added verification step when players click the Unsubscribe link in emails

  • Updated layout of "Add / Edit Text / Fields" area in Report Composer

  • Emergency Scorecard option looked disabled if checkbox was not checked

  • Improvements to Auto Included tournaments when Cloning

  • The “From” field is no longer automatically filled when Cloning an event

September 9, 2021

StrackaLine Hole Location Sheets
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This feature introduces a new report that managers can use to print the hole locations for a selected course, through an integration with StrackaLine. Choose your course from the dropdown and then either click on the green outlines to set the hole location, or choose to enter the number yourself. These new hole location sheets provide actual green outlines and greenside bunkers!


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Usability Enhancements
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  • Updated layout of the Add/Edit Text area in Composers

  • New Customer Managers are no longer subscribed by default to the Daily Digest

  • Auto-Populate the cursor into the first available text field when accessing a page

  • Community Reports preview improvements

  • Added a search function for the Season Points List (Portal and Manager Site)

  • Highlight name discrepancies when updating Handicap Index

  • Filter by Season in Spreadsheet Composer in Customer Center

  • Added a check box to show Tee Abbreviations for all players on Portal Tee Sheet Page

August 25, 2021

Golf Canada Score Centre Integration
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This feature delivers integration with Golf Canada Score Centre, giving managers access to a comprehensive course database with the ability to import courses directly into their account. The imported courses and tees can then be used to post scores to Score Centre through GolfNet, making them eligible for PCC computation.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

Directly Authorized Club (DAC) Player Eligibility
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In this feature, we are introducing a new eligibility option to allow restricting the registration of golfers that are members of Directly Authorized Clubs (DAC) in events. This same option will also be available for Membership Program eligibility.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

Additional Enhancements
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July 6, 2021

Player Cancellation After Deadline
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We are introducing a new option in the Registration Center to allow players the ability to cancel their registration even after registration has closed for the event. This new option is controlled by the manager, who can also specify a cancellation deadline date beyond which a player can no longer cancel their registration. For example, you may set a deadline preventing player cancellations within "n" days of an event.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Pace of Play by Tee
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We have added the option of defining Pace of Play information at the tee level. Managers will be able to use different pace of play times for each tee. The tee Pace of Play information will be carried over across various places in the application, including scorecards, Raguzzi charts, composers, Pace of Play application, etc.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Round Robin Match Ordering
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This feature introduces a new option in the Round Robin Schedule setup, which gives managers the ability to have the team or player with the lowest seed always be in the first match every round when ordering the matches within a flight (first seed will always play in the first match).


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

Additional Enhancements
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May 12, 2021

Printed Bracket Enhancements
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With today's release, we are introducing the following enhancements in the printed brackets area:

  • New Page Size - 11.5 X 17 inches

  • Repeat Header Option - option to either print the header on all pages or only on the first page

  • Round Header - three new options for the round header: Round Date or Round Name or Both

  • Starting Times for Past Dates - choose if the starting times should be printed only for future rounds or for all rounds

  • Starting Time for Championship Match - starting time properly printed for the championship match

  • Starting Time for 36 Hole Final - ability to print out a starting time for the 2nd 18-holes of a 36-hole final

  • Highlight Winners - determines, through a new option, if match winners should be highlighted on the printed bracket report

  • Styling Improvements - improved starting time display for the 64-players 2 regions brackets, and small enhancements around the additional information on the printed bracket


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


All Matches on One Page
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A new page has been added to display all matches in the current round, using a condensed view so more matches can fit in one page. This page will be available by clicking All Matches under the Display Leaderboard page in the header section.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Pace of Play Enhancements
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After listening to feedback regarding our Pace of Play feature, we've introduced the following enhancements:

  • Added ability to remove a time in the Checkpoint Summary Page

  • Can now edit time manually for setting Weather Delays

  • Warnings will now stay in the order they were received

  • Fixed the Group Ahead Missed Checkpoint message

  • Order of checkpoints on mobile app is now correct in all cases

  • The clock now stays green when the group is still within the Group Margin

  • Weather Delays are now applied to any group that has not finished a hole & when coming out of a Weather Delay, the delay time is accounted for when determining the Interval moving forward

  • Ability to export the Checkpoint Summary as .xlsx

  • The first group of a wave now becomes subject to the interval when they catch the last group teeing off the other tee


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Additional Enhancements
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April 28, 2021

Drive, Chip & Putt Event
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With this release, managers can now create a Drive, Chip & Putt event. A manager can add players, run and score the competition, and show results on leaderboards and portals. This format can be used by clubs to drive higher junior participation and to grow the game.

We are also introducing live mobile scoring stations. Each scoring station can include one or multiple skills and is accessed through a GGID that volunteers or staff enter into the Golf Genius TM Mobile App. Once logged in, they will be able to select the number of points for each player attempt. The players will then be able to see live results on the leaderboards.

**Please note**
1) This feature is enabled only for Golf Genius TM Club Premium accounts.
2) The mobile app will be updated early next week in the app stores with this feature enabled.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Bulk Ad-Hoc Season Points
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In this new feature, we are introducing two ways to manually award season points in bulk:

  • Award Points Manually - Enter the information needed to award ad-hoc season points with an easy-to-use interface

  • Spreadsheet Upload - Upload a spreadsheet with points, match the required fields, and then import the points

In addition to the features above, we have also added a new option available for season points categories that are using the “Best X” option, giving them the ability to choose if a manual award should be counted towards the “Best X” or not. The example below will count the Fargo City Am manually awarded points toward a player's 10 best points, if applicable.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

February 24, 2021

Dashboard Improvements
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In our previous product update, we launched the newly reimagined Event Dashboard. Today, we are excited to announce the following improvements:

League Dashboard

We have taken the functionality of the new Event Dashboard and applied it to leagues. League Dashboards now have an improved look and feel, and also include relevant league information.

New Tiles

Several additional tiles have been added to improve the manager experience on the dashboard. These include:

  • Divisions / Flights / Teams

  • Purse & Points Summary

  • Round Players

For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


TV Shows
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The new TV Shows feature is a TM Club Premium enhancement to the existing TV Leaderboards functionality. The biggest improvement is the ability to create multiple TV Shows, thus enabling managers to display multiple shows containing different content on separate screens simultaneously. Here are some highlights of other improvements:

  • Split screen leaderboards (shown below)

  • GGID for each TV show

  • Amazon Fire TV Stick integration

  • Header and Footer customization

  • Background image selection

  • Leaderboard granularity by division/flight

We are currently developing further enhancements to our new TV Shows feature and look forward to sharing them with you in our next product update.

For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.


Auto-Refill Divisions or Flights
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With today's product update, we are introducing the ability to automatically refill divisions and/or flights that were previously filtered by Handicap Index or Playing Handicap. When Handicap Indexes are updated, a prompt will ask if you would like to refill your current divisions/flights. Simply select the divisions and/or flights and choose the future rounds that you wish to refill, then click Refill.


For full details, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

Additional Enhancements
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  • Issue partial refunds when using the Team Split Payments feature

  • The "Allow Handicap Updates" option has been relocated to Round Profile to prevent users from accidentally disabling Handicap Index updates

  • Added Membership Type Field for Clubessential and MembersFirst Master Roster Sync integrations

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