Easy Golf Tour

Our software allows courses to run tournaments up to 80% more efficiently than many other systems. We do this by optimizing the way information is entered into a tournament. With a simple easy-to-use interface, courses can create tournaments, post information online using the golf course's website or social media sites, accept registration and payments from golfers, and much more. This reduces the number of staff required to run events. This can be a huge cost savings and time savings for golf courses.

In a very competitive market, courses need ways of making more revenue and reducing expenses to generate additional profits. EasyGolfTour.com helps courses achieve this with our affordable technology.

Why offer tournament software and put restrictions on how many golfers are allowed in your tournament? Why are you charging extra for more golfers, haven't I paid enough?

These are all questions that are asked when courses use some of our competing software. Our answer to these questions are very simple, you have no limits.

Our software supports unlimited number of golfers in any tournament. Whether it's a small 18 team event or a huge 250 golfer event, there are no limits with EasyGolfTour.com.

Every course and every tournament is different, EasyGolfTour.com offers the ability for course to have both 18 and 9 hole tournaments. With our unique interface, you can setup 9 hole events on every Monday, Tuesday, or any other days you like, this gives courses the ability to run ongoing league events with combined overall scoring.

With our management system, golf courses can create events over unlimited days. This flexibility gives courses the ability to run ongoing leagues or unique tournaments.

To add additional days, simply click on the Days tab under your tournament, and click on "Add Day" in the upper righthand corner. Repeat this process for each day you'd like to add.

EasyGolfTour.com offers unlimited flights for every tournament. These flights can be setup based on Gender (Either Mix or Restricted), Upper and Lower Handicap, and Sponsors. The system can automatically assign golfers to flights based on course handicap or even create an equal sized flights automatically at a push of a button.

Tournament organizers can choose what flights appear on leaderboards through the course or online. Simply by changing the visible setting on a flight, the flight will either appear or be hidden based on your selection.

Our software has the ability to run tournaments from any of your course's tees. With the initial setup of your course, we have you pick a default men's and ladies' tee for your course. Once picked, each tournament will automatically use the selected tee for future tournaments.

If you have a tournament, or even a flight, that needs to use a different tee, just select the alternative tea when you create or modify the flight. Our software will automatically adjust all your golfers' course handicaps based on the new selection. It's that easy.

EasyGolfTour.com allows courses to add tournament registration to your own website. With a simple one line of code, tournament registration will appear for a single tournament or all upcoming tournaments.

Golf course operators can select what information they want to capture from golfers that are registering online and what information is required. We also give the ability to capture payment information using credit card, debit visa, PayPal and many others. EasyGolfTour.com can do it for you for as low as 2.99% fee. Once processed and verified, the funds will be e-transferred to the registered email on the account or sent via bank transfer.

We understand how difficult it is for courses to provide alternative scoring, with EasyGolfTour.com it's as easy as 1, 2, 3 or should we say 1 to 18. When entering scores for tournaments, tournament organizers can select how scoring is done. You can enter total score, front and back 9, or all 18 holes. When you enter all 18 holes, EasyGolfTour.com can easily pick your skin winners at the click of a button. EasyGolfTour.com will generate a report that shows who shot the lowest score with or without ties.

We understand how difficult it is for courses to provide alternative scoring, with EasyGolfTour.com it's as easy as 1, 2, 3 or should we say 1 to 18. When entering scores for tournaments, tournament organizers can select how scoring is done. You can enter total score, front 9 and back 9, or all 18 holes. When you enter all 18 holes, EasyGolfTour.com can easily pick the golfers that scored a 2 on anyone. The report generated will show you either the holes that only a single person scored 2 or all holes that have 2's.

To make things easier for a tournament organizer, we allow scores to be entered in different ways:

• Total Score: If the tournament only requires simple scoring, the tournament organizer can simply just enter the total score for each golfer or team. The gross and/or net winners will be generated based on the overall score entered.
• Front & Back 9: For additional error checking, we also offer the ability to enter the Front & Back 9. Once entered, the total score will be calculated and can be compared to the overall score entered on the golfer's scorecard.
• Hole-by-Hole: Entering all scores from every hole offers the most flexibility in your tournament. Not only does it provided the best error checking when comparing the total score, but it also allows for auto retrogression and additional scoring methods to be used such as skins and two's. Also, when hole scoring is used, you have the ability to allow golfers to enter scores using a mobile device while playing on the course. This feature gives golfers access to real time leaderboards. Once the round is completed, the tournament organizer will verify the scores entered by the golfers. Once verified, the scores cannot be modified.

With EasyGolfTour.com doing a draw is easy. If your course uses our easy online registration that integrates into your website, all golfers are automatically added to your tournament. To perform the draw, the tournament organizer just needs to specify the type of start (Normal, Shotgun, Cross Over, Double Shotgun, Double Cross Over, etc..) and provided the details for start time, intervals and group sizes to define the Tee Sheet layout and you are done.
Draws can be done in the following way:

• Completely Manual or just reserved times
• Course HCP (Low to high or high to low)
• Gross Score (Low to high or high to low)
• Net Score (Low to high or high to low)
• Flights (First to last or last to first)
• Reverse Previous Day
• Random

With the flexibility of our management software, you can assign reserved times for golfers that need to golf at a specific time and perform the specified draw around these times. Your tournament organizer can also specify times as "Starter Times" to allow for creating a buffer to prevent congestion on the course.

After the draw is completed, it can automatically be posted on the Golf Course's website using our integrated features.

Tournament organizers are easily able to generate winners of tournaments using EasGolfTour.com's software. After all scores have been entered into the system by the organizer or volunteers or the golfers themselves have entered their scores and had them verified by the organizer or volunteers, the tournament organizer just simply touches one button. EasyGolfTour.com will generate the following:

• Overall Gross and/or net winners
• Gross and/or net winners for each flight
• Automatic Retrogression, customizable by the Tournament Organizer
• Hide golfers if multiple prizes are won, only the highest prize will be awarded (i.e winner of 1st overall gross would not win 1st overall net also). This feature can also be disabled to allow for tournament organizers to manually remove duplicate winners.

Once the winners are completed, it can be automatically posted on the Golf Course's website using our integrated features.

EasyGolfTour.com offers easy to use and flexible retrogression methods. With wide range of selections, Tournament Organizers can pick any combination of retrogression methods in any order they desire from any day number in the tournament.

Below is a list of some examples of what tournament organizers can pick for retrogression options and all of these options can be picked from any day of the tournament.

• Round Total
• Back 9 and Front 9
• Last 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Holes played
• Any single hole
• Combined hole score from 1 to 17, 1 to 16, 1 to 15 etc..

EasyGolfTour.com offers easy TV and Internet leaderboards. With just one line of code added to your website, your course can stream online leaderboards directly to the internet.

• Tv Leaderboard: Using Chromecast devices, Tournament organizers are able to broadcast a live leaderboard to an unlimited number of TVs anywhere. Simply log in to your account, select TV Leaderboard from the tournament options and press cast on your mobile device. It's that easy.
• Internet Leaderboard: With our simple embedded code system, your course can add one line of code to any page on your website to stream a real-time leaderboard to drive traffic to your site. No web development experience is required. We offer different varieties of web leaderboards to fit in any location you desire.

With all of our leaderboards, we give the ability for the tournament organizer to setup advertisements. This feature will allow you to put small banner ads that are displayed all the time on TV and Internet leaderboards and also full screen ads that are displayed on the TV after the leaderboard finishes scrolling. The tournament organizer can setup the desired interval that these ads are displayed. Tournament advertising allows golf courses to earn extra revenue from each tournament or promote current sponsors that are supporting the tournament.

Every course knows that getting information to the golfer can sometimes be difficult. When trying to perform draws, announcing the winners, or get important updates out to golfers it's extremely difficult to find one solution to cover all areas. Many of our clients receive 100's of calls from golfers trying to find out when they are golfing and with whom.
EasyGolfTour.com has the perfect solution to this problem. Below you will find a list of some of the features that can be done using our SMS system:

• Draws: With SMS (text messages) golfers can receive instant messages when a draw is complete. With a press of a button, Tournament organizers can send out an SMS message to all golfers that provided a mobile phone number during the registration process. This message will contain the tee-off time, starting hole, and a list of other golfers in their group. The tournament organizer can also attach a custom message to the text.
• Winners: Tournament organizers can send out a list of winners via text message after the tournament is completed. With a simple press of a button, all golfers that provided a mobile phone when they registered will receive a list of winners.
• Important Updates: Tournament organizers are able to send out custom text messages with important tournament updates. Once logged in, a tournament organizer can enter a message on EasyGolfTour.com and send it directly to any golfer that registered with a mobile phone. These messages could contain schedule changes, rain delays, cancellations, or any other custom message.

Last, but definitely not least, EasyGolfTour.com offers mobile scoring for golfers. Tournament organizers have the ability to allow golfers to enter scores on the course for themselves or the entire group. With this feature, golfers have access to real-time leaderboards, they are able to view competitors' score cards, and can even track their scoring history from tournament to tournament.

With a simple switch, Tournament organizers enable mobile scoring. After the round of golf is completed, the tournament organizer or volunteers verify the scores that have been entered into the system. Once verified, the golfer is unable to go back and change any score. This feature helps speed up the results at the end of the tournament and also protects the tournament organizer from any golfer trying to cheat.

EasyGolfTour.com offers unlimited flights for every tournament. These flights can be setup based on Gender (Either Mix or Restricted), Upper and Lower Handicap, and Sponsors. The system can automatically assign golfers to flights based on course handicap or even create an equal sized flights automatically at a push of a button.
Tournament organizers can choose what flights appear on leaderboards through the course or online. Simply by changing the visible setting on a flight, the flight will either appear or be hidden based on your selection.

EasyGolfTour.com offers unlimited flights for every tournament. These flights can be setup based on Gender (Either Mix or Restricted), Upper and Lower Handicap, and Sponsors. The system can automatically assign golfers to flights based on course handicap or even create equal sized flights automatically at a push of a button.
Tournament organizers can choose what flights appear on leaderboards throughout the course and online. Simply by changing the visible setting on a flight, the flight will either appear or be hidden.