Run the tournament. Not the spreadsheet.
Tournament software built by someone who actually runs leagues. Not by a 300-person sales team.
No setup fee. No sales call. No credit card.
League seasons. Club championships. Member-guests. Wednesday night nine-and-dines. The four guys you go to Pinehurst with every fall. All in one place, all with real handicap math.
Handicap indexes. Slope. Rating. Course handicap per tee. Stroke allocation hole by hole. Net scoring that holds up if someone double-checks it. No spreadsheet duct tape.
GHIN integration is coming. We are applying for GHIN access; until it is live, handicaps are entered and posted manually.
Your logo. Your colors. Your club name on the leaderboard. Members see your club. First Cut Golf gets out of the way. Print the scorecards in your green, not ours.
Score it. Watch it. Print it.
Players score on phones at the turn. Spectators refresh the leaderboard from the parking lot. You print the final standings on the way back to the clubhouse. Nobody is asking who has the spreadsheet, because there is no spreadsheet.
- ✓ Live updates as scores are entered
- ✓ Net and gross views with proper tie handling
- ✓ Print scorecards with par, stroke index, yardage, and handicap dots already on them
- ✓ Tee sheet with auto-grouped foursomes, ready for the starter
| Player | Net | Thru |
|---|---|---|
| Lyons, T. | 68 | F |
| Clark, B. | 71 | F |
| Hayes, M. | 72 | 16 |
| Andrews, C. | 73 | F |
| Patel, R. | 74 | F |
Your course is probably already in here.
Search by club name. Pick yours. Tees, ratings, slopes, hole-by-hole pars, stroke indexes, and yardages come in automatically. You spend zero minutes typing a scorecard from a photo of a tee marker.
And yeah, the day your superintendent moves the back tees in by ten yards, you can edit it.
Not a spreadsheet. Not enterprise club software.
A spreadsheet breaks the moment someone questions net scoring on a stroke-hole tie. Enterprise club platforms like Golf Genius are built for a full-time tournament director with a budget line for one. First Cut is built for the person running a real tournament on nights and weekends.
- Free, but you're the handicap engine
- No live leaderboard, no phone scoring
- Falls apart the first time a tiebreaker gets questioned
- Real USGA handicap math, done for you
- Live phone scoring and leaderboards, day one
- No setup fee, no sales call — and your data exports whenever you want it
- Built for a full-time director's budget
- Sales calls and setup fees before you see a leaderboard
- Powerful, if you need the 5% of it you'll actually use
I've run this tournament for eight years.
Everything else out there was either built for full-time directors at private clubs, or built for casual rounds and fell apart the moment I tried to run a real championship with it. So I built the thing I actually needed, then opened it up to every other league, association, and outing running on the same duct tape I was.
If something's broken, email me. It usually gets fixed that same night.
Need help? Email me.
There's no ticket system. There's no "we'll get back to you in 24-48 business hours." There's no level-1 rep reading from a script. There's me.
If something is broken, I will probably fix that night. If you have an idea, hit me up. I read every email.
Pricing on the page, not in your inbox.
Free forever for small leagues. Subscription tiers when you grow. One-time passes for buddy trips and charity outings. Annual saves two months.
1 league, 12 players, 5 events per year. Plenty of time to lose a few dozen balls.
Up to 3 programs, 250 players. Public spectator pages, dues, and SMS.
Unlimited programs and players. Priority support. API access. The full kit.
Run an actual tournament this week.
Sign up. Add your players. Hit the first tee on Saturday. The free tier covers your first one.
Start freeNo setup fee. No sales call. No credit card.