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The Golfers League
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The format

How the league works

Everything is defined up front: the format, the handicap allowance, the points and the tie-breaks. Nothing is decided after the fact.

Join the leagueRules and format
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Season flow

From joining to the leaderboard

  1. Irons and a wood standing in a golf bag
    01
    Join as a member

    Choose a plan, create your account and add your handicap index and home club. Your profile drives your playing handicap at every event.

  2. A golf clubhouse lit up at dusk at the end of a path
    02
    Book your fixtures

    Booking opens on a published date for each event. If an event is full you can join the waitlist and you'll be offered the first place that frees up.

  3. Three amateur golfers finishing a hole on a green beside the pin flag on a sunny day
    03
    Play and return your card

    Enter your gross score hole by hole. Shots received are allocated by stroke index, and Stableford points are calculated for you.

  4. TGLExample leaderboard
    Final
    Example Stableford leaderboard showing verified cards, holes completed and final positions. Illustrative demo data with fictional player names — not live league results.
    PosPlayerThruPts
    1Oliver Hart1841
    2Daniel Brooks1839
    3Marcus Reed1838
    4Callum Hayes1837
    Final — results verified. Cards submitted, points calculated, positions published. Example only; names are fictional.
    04
    Cards verified, points awarded

    The committee verifies and locks cards. Verified cards are ranked, league points are awarded, and a standings snapshot is published.

Scoring

Stableford, with the maths shown

Points per hole are based on your net score against par, using shots allocated by stroke index.

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Points per hole
Stableford points awarded per hole
Net scorePoints
Two or more over par0
One over par (net bogey)1
Net par2
Net birdie3
Net eagle4
Net albatross5
Handicap and shots received

Your course handicap uses your handicap index with the tee's slope and course rating where the committee has entered them, and falls back to your index rounded to the nearest whole shot where it hasn't.

Each event has its own handicap allowance percentage (for example 95% for an individual Stableford), which is applied to produce your playing handicap.

Shots are allocated one at a time from stroke index 1 upwards, wrapping round for playing handicaps above 18. Plus handicaps give shots back from the highest stroke index down.

Handicap indexes are entered by members and reviewed by the committee. There is no live connection to a handicapping authority — see the deferred integrations note on the rules page.

League points

Points and tie-breaks

Points and tie-break rules are stored against each season and can be edited by the committee.

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Points per finishing position

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Tie-breaks, in order

Bookings

Places, waitlists and fourballs

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Booking window

Each event has an opening and closing time. Outside that window the event shows as scheduled or closed and no new bookings are taken.

Waitlist

When capacity is reached, further requests join a numbered waitlist. The committee promotes waitlisted members in order as places free up.

Fourballs

The committee builds fourballs from confirmed bookings and publishes tee times. You'll see your group on your dashboard once it's set.