IGA Member Benefits Booklet

USGA Tournament Management (TM), powered by Golf Genius Software, is a modern, cloud-based software product that promises less work and superior results for golf professionals who organize and run golf tournaments. In addition to comprehensive tournament management functionality that saves the golf staff valuable time and eliminates complicated manual processes, TM also has a flexible publisher to produce best-in-class, fully customizable printed materials, and offers unique functionality for organizing and managing golf leagues. Key benefits of USGA Tournament Management include: Set-Up and Score Tournaments, Events, Outings • Create and refresh a club master rosters from GHIN roster(s) • Create an event roster from a master roster, from a spreadsheet, from ForeTees, or add players individually • Add unlimited custom fields to capture all relevant participant info • Close past events to quickly set up new events • Update Handicap Indexes directly from GHIN, from spreadsheets or manually enter and/or edit handicaps • Highly flexible calculations of course and team handicaps - half shots, decimal handicaps • Handicap analysis report shows course handicap calculation for each player/team based on handicap allocation and differences in par • Comprehensive support for creating divisions, flights, teams • Automated and optimized creation of groups ranging from two players to four players by team, ABCD, AB, by index, by entry number or randomly • Manually create pairings by selecting players or create teams for groups of up to 6 players; pull players or teams from master roster • Select event format from a large, comprehensive library of options • Run multiple tournaments within a single event round (e.g., best 2 balls of foursome plus score low gross, low net, quota, skins...) • Set-up and run different tournaments with same format over multiple rounds or different formats over multiple rounds (e.g., brackets, Ryder Cups, Stablefords, round robins) • Enter scores once and all tournament results are tabulated in seconds