A league is a season-long container for weekly events — a persistent roster, standings that keep themselves, and sub rules that handle the week someone cannot make it. Setup takes about ten minutes. This is every screen you will see, in order.
Four things make the setup painless. None of them need to be final.
Free, and it takes about a minute. The account you create is the director account — it owns the league, and only it can edit the schedule, roster and results.
The wizard walks the whole season setup in five screens. Nothing is final until you finish, and almost everything stays editable afterwards.
Four presets. A template pre-fills every screen that follows and you can override any of it — a "Template · Change" chip stays at the top so you can switch, with a confirmation before it resets your edits.
| Template | Cadence | Weekly format | Standings | Playoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday Night Men’s League | Weekly, 16 events | Stableford | Position points | 4-seed bracket |
| Annual Member-Guest | One day or a weekend | Best ball | Position points | No playoff |
| Travel-team captain | Monthly-ish, 6 events | Stroke play | Stroke aggregate | No playoff |
| Team league | 16 weeks of nine holes | Two singles per team | Weekly match play | No playoff |
Custom skips the pre-fill entirely. Pick it if your league does not look like any of these.
The name shows on every player’s tab, so make it the thing they would call it out loud. A description is optional and useful for the rules everyone forgets — "2-person teams, best ball of partners", "season runs Apr–Sep".
Each player needs a display name and a handicap index. That is the whole requirement — you do not need them to have accounts before the season starts.
The roster stays editable all season. Roster changes apply from the next week forward — past weeks are never re-scored behind you.
This is the one decision worth slowing down for. Everything else on this page can be changed later; this cannot.
Best for: Open weekly leagues
Each week’s finishers convert to season points by finish position; ties split. Highest season total wins. Rewards consistency and handles a field that changes size week to week — and because it ranks finishers rather than strokes, it does not care whether you scored that week gross or net.
Best for: Member-guests and short multi-event totals
Each week adds the player’s score for that event to a running total; lowest total at season end wins. Gross or net is your call per event, exactly as it is for any tournament — most run both — and the standings read whichever that week was scored on. Simple and obvious, but less forgiving: one blow-up week follows you all season.
Best for: Fixed rosters with weekly rivalry
The league is played by teams of two. Each week your team is paired against another and plays two singles matches. Points come from holes won, winning your match, and a team point for the week. Standings are computed from the weeks, never typed in.
The points model locks when the league is created. Changing it mid-season would silently re-score every week already played, so we do not allow it. If you need a different model, close the season and start a new league.
Both optional. Flights give you sub-leaderboards inside one league, so sixteen players who tee off together every week still compete for separate trophies inside their handicap band. Players are auto-assigned by current handicap and you can re-flight anyone by hand.
Flight assignment is per season, not per week. Playoffs can be a seeded bracket or a final event.
Share the league join code. Players enter it in the app and land straight on your league; anyone you added manually can claim their spot with the same code.
League-wide email invites are not wired yet — see below. Tournament invites by email do work today; leagues need the same plumbing extended, and it has not shipped.
Each week is an ordinary Bagpipe Golf event — same setup, same scoring, same live scorecard. Post the week, players RSVP, scores come in, and the standings move on their own. You never type a standing.
A league is a sixteen-week commitment, so these are stated here rather than discovered in week three.
Free for a limited time. Setup takes about ten minutes.