The Journal
New writing every week. Read the manifesto. Run the tournament. Find out what your real 78 actually was.
A vendor-honest buyer's guide for choosing golf tournament software in 2026: the questions that matter, the features that don't, and how to test a tool before you trust your season to it.
The paper scorecard survived a century because nothing better was easy enough. A QR code and a public leaderboard finally cleared that bar. Here is what changes when you drop the clipboard.
When your field ranges from scratch to 30, gross scoring crowns the same few players every time. Here is how net scoring and flights keep everyone in it, explained simply.
A corporate outing has a different boss than a club event: the sponsor writing the check. Here is the software checklist that keeps them happy and gets you booked again next year.
You buy tournament software. Your players experience it. Those are different things, and the gap between them is quietly deciding whether your events grow or shrink.
The fear that keeps clubs on software they have outgrown is the switch itself. Here is what moving off Golf Genius actually involves, and why mid-season is easier than you think.
A plain-English guide to the formats clubs actually run, what each one is good for, and how to score them live instead of rebuilding a spreadsheet at midnight.
A practical timeline for running a charity golf tournament that raises more and burns out fewer volunteers, from the people who build the software that runs them.
Live scoring is the feature that makes a tournament feel alive, and the one most likely to fall apart on event day. Here is what separates the demos that work from the ones that don't.
Seven things that go wrong at every member-guest weekend — and the one decision that quietly fixes all of them.
You shot 78. But what was it really? Plug it into the BASED™ Calculator and find out what your round was actually worth.
If you run leagues and tournaments and you have outgrown your patience for clunky software, here are the real alternatives to Golf Genius in 2026, sorted by who they actually fit.
No public price page, quote-only sales, and tiers that hide the real number — why Golf Genius cost searches turn into alternatives searches, and what flat club pricing looks like instead.