Help & User Guide

Getting Started

Create your account in a few taps, then fill in a quick profile so teammates can recognize you.

Sign in

Open the app and choose how you want to sign in:

• Continue with Google
• Continue with Facebook
• Continue with Apple (shown on iPhone and iPad)

You can sign in with any of these — there's no separate password to remember. If you ever want to add another option later, you can link Google, Apple, or Facebook to the same account from your profile.

Set up your profile

After signing in, open Profile to add:

• First and last name — how you appear on rosters and leaderboards.
• Nickname (optional) — a fun display name for events.
• Handicap index (optional) — enter it manually, e.g. 12.4 or +2.4 for a plus handicap. GHIN sync is coming soon; for now it's entered by hand.
• Profile photo — tap Change Photo; if you skip it, your initials are used.

Tap Save Changes when you're done. You can come back and edit any of these at any time.

Find your way around

The home screen has three tabs: My Events — events you're running or playing in, and where you tap Create Event; News Feed — updates from your events; and Contacts — people you've played with. Your Profile (account, subscription, and settings) is reachable from here too.

Creating & Managing Events

As a commissioner you build the event in a short, guided wizard. Pick an event type, set the dates and rounds, choose how scoring works, and you're ready to invite players.

To start: open the My Events tab and tap Create Event, then choose the type of event you want to run.

Choose an event type

• Quick Event — tee off today. Starts shortly from now and runs a single round. Great for a casual, on-the-fly round.
• Tournament (Single-Day) — a planned one-day event with a date and time.
• Multi-Day Tournament — a trip with start/end dates and several rounds.
• Tour — a season made of multiple stops.
• League — a recurring season (weekly or monthly) with rounds generated across the dates you set.

Some event types require a paid plan, and the picker flags this: Quick Event is free, while single-day, multi-day, and tour events are marked Needs Basic and leagues are marked Needs Pro. See Subscription & Billing and the pricing page.

Fill in the wizard

1. Event details — name, optional description, max participants, and an entry fee. Choose whether the fee is a single charge or per round.
2. Dates — set the date and time, or the trip/season range, depending on the event type.
3. Round setup — for each round, pick a course, choose a tee (each option shows its yardage), and set the scoring format. Use Apply to All Rounds to copy your first round's settings to the rest. The number of holes follows the course you pick; you can switch a round between 9 and 18 holes later in Round Edit.
4. Final details — set a few last toggles: Create a team for myself (adds you as captain on Round 1), Go Live Now on Quick events (start scoring right away), Make this event public (leave off to keep it private), and Require app to accept invite (leave off so invited players appear on the roster and leaderboard right away — recommended).

Formats and scoring modes

These are two separate settings: the format is how teams compete and you pick it while creating the event; the scoring mode is how scores get entered and you set it later, per round, in Round Edit.

Choose a format that fits your group — 2- or 4-person scramble, best ball, Stableford, 1 vs 1 Showdown, or a Private Round.

For scoring, new rounds start in Live scoring. To change it, open the round in Round Edit and pick the mode:

• Live scoring — the default; players enter scores hole by hole and the leaderboard updates in real time.
• Live (hidden) — scores are entered live but the leaderboard stays hidden until you publish it.
• Manual — scores are managed as totals rather than entered hole by hole.

Even in a live round, a team can tap Submit a final score instead in the scoring cart to record a final total rather than going hole by hole.

Payment methods

If you collect an entry fee, you can list how players pay you — for example cash, check, or Venmo. Tourned Up Golf doesn't process the money; it just records how players should pay.

You can also track who has paid: on a team roster each player shows a PAID or UNPAID badge, and the commissioner can mark someone Paid (offline) — or Mark unpaid — as the money comes in.

Contests & prizes

Add some stakes beyond the team leaderboard.

Hole contests — set them up. Open a round in Round Edit, find Hole Contests, and tap Add Contest. Choose the hole and the type — Closest to the Pin, Longest Drive, or Closest to Target (name your own target, such as "Island green") — and, if you like, turn on Different for men and women to track separate winners.

Hole contests — during the round. Contest holes are flagged on the scoring screen's hole picker, and the leader updates live as scores come in — shown by name, plus the distance for closest-to-pin and target (for example "12 ft"). They also appear on the event page, reading "No leader yet" until someone takes the lead. You (or a tournament/course admin) can set or correct a winner at any time with Set winner — type the name, and for closest-to-pin or target add the distance in feet or steps.

Prize pool. In the create or edit wizard, under Prize & Entry, open the Prize Pool editor and tap Add Prize. Give each prize a name (e.g. "1st Place" or "Closest to the Pin"), pick a payout type — Cash, Gift Card, Pro Shop Credit, or Merchandise — and enter a dollar value (gift cards and merchandise let you add a vendor or item name). Every prize counts toward the event's Profit & Loss. Haven't settled the payouts yet? Switch on Prize Structure TBD to add them later.

Editing later

Open the event and tap to edit. Commissioners can update the name, description, entry fee, and payment methods. Open a round in Round Edit to change its course, date, and format; switch it between 9 and 18 holes; choose the scoring mode (live, hidden, or manual); and set Format Rules — a Max Strokes per Hole cap (par through triple bogey, or none), Allow club-length drop, and a Min Drives per Player requirement for scrambles.

Joining & Scoring

There are a couple of ways to get into an event, and once it's live, scoring happens right on your phone.

How to join

• Public events — you can find and register for these yourself.
• Invite-only events — the commissioner invites you by email (and sometimes SMS). The invite shows up under My Invites in the app even if the email is delayed.
• Request to join a team — if you don't have a team yet, you can join as a free agent (below).

Teams & free agents

If you're a free agent, browse teams that have open spots. Each listing shows the team name, the captain, and how many spots are open. Tap Request to Join and the captain gets your request to accept or decline.

Live scoring

When a round is live, the scoring screen has two tabs:

• Leaderboard — a read-only view of every team's score, holes completed, and standing relative to par.
• Your Cart — where you enter scores for your group, hole by hole.

A status badge shows where the round stands — for example Live, Pending Review, Attested, or Completed. Tap the How scoring works info icon any time for a refresher on the round's scoring mode.

Enter a score, hole by hole

Open the Your Cart tab and you're ready to score your group:

1. Pick the hole from the row of hole numbers across the top.
2. Set the score with the – and + buttons. It starts on par and names the result as you go — Birdie, Par, Bogey, and so on. If the round has a Max Strokes per Hole cap, + stops there.
3. Scramble only — mark whose drive you used. When the round requires it, tap the photo of the player whose tee shot the team played. Try to record without choosing and you'll be reminded: "Please select whose tee shot was used by tapping a player photo." Spread the drives around — if a teammate's tee shot is never used by the end of the round, the team is flagged when you submit.
4. Tap Record Score (or Update Score to change one you already entered). The app saves it and jumps to the next hole.
5. Submit when you're done. Once every hole is in, tap Submit Scorecard — you'll be reminded that "once submitted, only a commissioner can reopen it for edits." Prefer not to go hole by hole? Tap Submit a final score instead to record just your total.

Recording a final total instead

Sometimes you just want to log the team's total — the round was kept on paper, or it's set to Manual mode. The cart then shows a single Team Total field under the course par: type the total strokes and tap Save (it confirms, e.g. "Saved: 74 (+2)"), then Submit. If you got here from a live round by tapping Submit a final score instead, a Switch back to hole-by-hole button lets you change your mind. A note reminds you the commissioner can override or reject a manual total if it needs fixing.

Stableford rounds

Stableford is entered differently: each player records their own gross score and the app rolls the points up to the team. Pick the hole, then use the + / – beside each player to set their strokes — the row shows that player's points, and the team's running points sit up top. There's no single-scorer lock here, so any teammate can fill scores in. Tap Submit Scorecard once everyone has a score on every hole.

Scorecards

Tap any team on the leaderboard to open its scorecard. You'll see the hole-by-hole scores against par, the running total, and Stableford points when that format is used.

Closing out the round (commissioners)

The last stages of a round are commissioner actions:

1. Pending Review — once every team submits, the round moves here on its own and a banner appears: "All scorecards submitted. Review and attest results."
2. Attest — tap Attest to lock in the results. This closes live scoring, so no more scores can be entered.
3. Mark Complete — from the event page, tap Mark Complete to finish the tournament. Everyone then sees a Completed badge.

Fixing a submitted scorecard. Submitted by mistake, or a score is wrong? A commissioner can hand the card back two ways. Open the team's scorecard and tap Reopen — "this will ask the team to review and resubmit their scores" — for a clean hand-back, or use Reject from the team's menu on the scoring screen to send it back with a reason (e.g. "missing hole 7"). Reject keeps the per-hole scores but clears any manual total. Either way the team is notified and re-submits.

If the round uses a hidden leaderboard, you also decide when standings go public. A single-round event shows Release Scores — it shares the leaderboard and sends a push and email with the top finishers. Each round of a multi-round event is published with Mark Round Complete, which adds it to the series leaderboard. You can't undo either once sent. See Leaderboards & Live Scoring.

Disqualifying a team. On the live leaderboard, open a team's menu and choose Disqualify Team (you can add a reason); disqualified teams drop to the bottom with a DQ badge. A team can also be disqualified automatically: if it tries to submit a card with errors — missing holes, or a scramble where a teammate's drive was never used — the app warns that submitting anyway means disqualification, and tapping Submit Anyway does exactly that.

Leaderboards & Live Scoring

Leaderboards update as scores come in, whether you're watching a single round or a whole season.

Single round vs. series

• Single-round leaderboard — teams with scores are listed first by their standing to par, followed by teams that haven't started.
• Series leaderboard — for multi-round events, tours, and leagues, you can view the Overall standings or filter to a single round.

Team or individual

Series leaderboards can be shown by team or by individual, and ranked by cumulative strokes, points, or Stableford depending on how the event is set up. Stableford rounds rank by points (higher is better); stroke-play rounds rank by score relative to par (lower is better).

Spectating

You don't have to be playing to follow along — anyone with access to the event can watch the live leaderboard read-only.

Teams, Invites & Contacts

Build your roster, send invites, and keep track of who's in.

Team rosters

On a team roster you'll see each member's name, handicap, and whether they've joined or are still pending. The team captain manages the roster.

Invite a team member

From the team roster, the captain taps Invite Player and chooses how to send the invite:

• Email — enter the player's first and last name and their email address, then tap Send Invite.
• Link / Text — enter the player's name and tap Share Invite Link to send them a join link, for example by text message.

With either method you can tap Choose from Contacts to pull someone in from your phone instead of typing. Sent invites appear under Pending Invites with a NOT ACCEPTED badge until the player joins. You can invite while the team still has an open spot and registration is open; the player accepts from My Invites (below).

Your invites

Open My Invites to see everything waiting on you, grouped by type:

• Tournament invite — an invitation to join an event.
• Team invite — an invitation to join a specific team.
• Pickup Request — a captain inviting you, as a free agent, to fill an open spot on their team.
• Join Request — a free agent asking to join a team you captain.

Tap any invite to see the details, then Accept or Decline. If an invite arrived by text, it's marked with an SMS badge.

Contacts & directory

Within an event you can open the member directory to search players by name and see their handicap and team. People you've played with before are easy to find again when you build new rosters.

During the Event

On event day, the app keeps your group organized — pairings, schedule, and who can do what.

Tee times & pairings

Open the round to see your group: the starting hole, tee time, and the players and handicaps in each pairing. Your team's tee time also shows on its roster card (for example "Tee Time: 8:00 AM"), and a Times confirmed badge appears once the commissioner locks the schedule. Commissioners set and adjust tee times on the round's Tee Times screen.

Travel & lodging (multi-day events)

When you accept an invite to a multi-day tournament, a Travel Details card asks whether you're staying for several days or just coming for the round. Choose Just the tournament or Multiple days; if you're staying, set your arrival and departure dates and your lodging — AirBnB, Hotel, or Other (with a box to say where). Single-day events skip this.

Email the tee sheet

Commissioners (and tournament or course admins) can email the tee sheet — the pairings and tee times — straight from the event. In the Teams area tap the Email Tee Sheet mail icon, then choose who gets it: yourself, another commissioner or admin, a phone contact, or any address you type in. Multi-round events can send every round at once, or a single round from that round's menu. The app emails a formatted tee sheet — there's no subject or message to write, you just pick the recipient.

Itinerary

The itinerary lays out the day — tee times, meals, and announcements. Commissioners edit it; everyone else views it.

Roles & access

Events have roles such as player, captain, and commissioner. Commissioners control the event — going live, adjusting pairings, and publishing leaderboards — and can share commissioner duties with others mid-event.

Showcase & Content

Events can tell their story with news, photos, documents, sponsors, charity partners, and a hall of fame.

• News — post updates that appear on the event page.
• Media gallery — upload photos and pick a cover image.
• Documents — share rules sheets and other files for players to download.
• Sponsors & charity — feature your sponsors and the cause you're supporting.
• Trophy room & legends — celebrate past champions and records.

Event media vs. your highlight clips. The media gallery above is the event's shared album, managed by the commissioner — event photos and the cover image. Separately, players can post their own highlight clips. From the Media section on your roster entry or profile, tap Add Media, pick a source — a YouTube link, an uploaded video (up to 30 minutes), or a photo — give it a title, optionally tag the players in it (and set a thumbnail for a video), then tap Post Media. You can edit or delete clips you posted; commissioners can manage any. Both surfaces are labelled "Media," but the gallery belongs to the event while highlight clips are yours.

What appears depends on the event type: news and photos show on every event, while documents, sponsors, and charity show on planned events (single-day, multi-day, tour, and league) — not on Quick Events.

Subscription & Billing

Tourned Up Golf is free to get started, with paid plans for organizers who run planned tournaments and leagues.

Plans at a glance

• Free — unlimited quick events (up to 12 players each), with live scoring and leaderboards.
• Basic — unlimited participants, 1 planned tournament per year, multi-day, multi-round & tour events, event content (news, docs, media & itinerary), sponsors & charity partners, and recurring annual tournaments.
• Pro — everything in Basic, plus 1 recurring league per year.
• Premium — everything in Pro, plus up to 5 planned tournaments and 3 leagues per year, and the trophy room & legends.
• Corporate (custom) — unlimited tournaments and leagues, with every feature included.

For the full feature-by-feature comparison, see the pricing page.

How billing works

Open Profile → My Subscription to compare plans, Upgrade, or Restore Purchases. Subscriptions are purchased through the App Store or Google Play and renew yearly. Your paid plan includes a set number of planned tournaments per year; the count resets each calendar year.

Changing or cancelling

Because billing runs through the app stores, you manage or cancel your subscription in your device settings:

• iPhone / iPad: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Tourned Up Golf.
• Android: Play Store → your profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Tourned Up Golf.

Tools, Notifications & Support

Profit & Loss calculator

Planning a tournament's budget? The P&L calculator is available right from the sign-in screen — no account needed. Enter entry fees, sponsor income, food & beverage, setup, and other costs to see your expected revenue, total costs, and profit.

Tourney Profit & Loss (commissioners)

Once an event exists it has its own Tourney Profit & Loss panel — commissioner-only, and hidden on Quick Events. Unlike the standalone calculator, it pulls real numbers from your event:

• Entry fee revenue — Expected Entry Revenue (entrants × fee) next to Collected Revenue and any Outstanding Balance, so you can see who still owes.
• Sponsorship (when you've budgeted any) — Expected, Committed, and Collected sponsor income.
• Costs — Tournament Fees, Food & Beverage, Setup Fees, Miscellaneous, processing fees, and your Prize Pool, summed as Total Costs.
• Expected Profit — revenue minus costs (with a Net After Donation line if you've pledged a charitable donation).

The figures here are read-only — you change the underlying numbers in Tournament Settings.

Notification preferences

Open Profile → Notification Preferences to control what reaches you. There are separate toggles for:

• Activity emails — invites, tee sheets, and event updates.
• Marketing emails — news and promotions.
• Push notifications — real-time alerts on your device.

For more on the two kinds of email and how to opt out, see Email Preferences & Support.

Live Activity

On the iPhone, your Profile has a Live Activity toggle — "Show round progress on Dynamic Island & lock screen." Turn it on to follow a live round at a glance without opening the app.

Contact support

Need a hand? Open Help & Support from your profile and send us a message. Pick a category — General, Bug/Issue, Feedback, Billing & Subscriptions, or Account — add a subject and your message, and our team will follow up. You can also email support@tournedupgolf.com.

FAQ & Troubleshooting

How do I cancel my subscription?

Subscriptions are billed by the App Store or Google Play, so you cancel them in your device settings, not inside the app:

• iPhone / iPad: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Tourned Up Golf → Cancel.
• Android: Play Store → your profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Tourned Up Golf → Cancel.

Cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date to avoid being charged for the next year.

I paid before — how do I restore my plan?

On a new phone or after reinstalling, open Profile → My Subscription and tap Restore Purchases. If an active subscription is found, your plan is restored; if not, you'll see a note that there's nothing to restore.

Why can't I create another event?

Each plan includes a limited number of planned tournaments per year. If you've used them up, you'll see "You've used all N planned tournaments this year. Quick events are still available." You can upgrade your plan to create more, or wait until the count resets at the start of the next calendar year. (Quick events don't count against this limit.)

Why can't I enter scores?

Each team has one active scorer at a time — whoever enters the first hole. If a teammate is already scoring, you'll see "<name> is scoring" in place of the score pad and can follow along on the leaderboard. If they hand off or lose their phone, tap Take Over Scoring to pick it up. (If you were offline when someone took over, holes you entered after that won't sync — you'll get a "Scores didn't sync" heads-up so you can relay them to the new scorer.) This single-scorer lock is on hole-by-hole scramble and stroke-play rounds; Stableford and final-total rounds let any teammate enter scores.

I submitted a wrong score — can it be fixed?

Yes. Once a card is submitted only a commissioner can change it, but they can hand it back: they tap Reopen on your scorecard (or Reject it with a note on what's wrong), and you'll be asked to review and resubmit. Just flag it to whoever's running the event.

I didn't get my invite email

Invite emails can be delayed or land in spam, but you don't need the email to join. Open My Invites in the app — every invitation shows up there, and you can accept it directly. If an invite was also texted to you, it's marked with an SMS badge. Still nothing? Ask the commissioner to confirm the email address on your invite.

How do I delete my account?

Go to Profile → Delete Account. The app shows what will be affected first:

• If you're the only commissioner of an event with other players, you'll be asked to hand it off to a new commissioner.
• Events with no other players are cancelled.
• You're removed from teams you played on.

Deletion is permanent and can't be undone.