First Cut Golf

Terms of Service

Effective August 20, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of First Cut Golf, a golf league, tournament, and event management platform operated by First Cut Golf, LLC ("First Cut Golf", "we", "us", or "our"). By creating an account, clicking to accept, or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a club, association, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.

1. What First Cut Golf Is

First Cut Golf is software for running golf programs. It helps you organize leagues, tournaments, and events, manage rosters, schedule tee times and pairings, score rounds, compute standings and handicaps, track dues, and produce reports. First Cut Golf is a record-keeping, scoring, and administration tool. First Cut Golf is not a bank, a payment processor, a gambling operator, a sportsbook, or a provider of legal, tax, or financial advice.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

First Cut Golf is offered to individuals and organizations located in the United States. By creating an account, you represent that you and your organization are based in the United States. We do not currently offer the service in other countries, and we may decline or close accounts created from outside the United States. We hope to expand availability in the future.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use First Cut Golf. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, for all activity under your account, and for keeping your login credentials secure. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. You are responsible for the conduct of the members, administrators, and scorers you invite to your organization.

3. Subscriptions, Billing, and Fees

First Cut Golf offers a free tier and paid subscription plans billed monthly or annually. Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. You authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method on each renewal. Plan prices, limits, and features are described at signup and on our pricing page and may change on a prospective basis with notice. There are no onboarding or setup fees. Except where required by law or expressly stated, fees are non-refundable, and cancelling stops future renewals rather than refunding the current period. You may cancel at any time, and your paid features remain available through the end of the period you have paid for.

4. Payments You Collect From Your Members

If you use First Cut Golf to collect dues, entry fees, or other payments from your members, those payments are processed by a third-party payment processor through a connected account that you set up and control. You, not First Cut Golf, are the merchant of record for those transactions and are responsible for the goods, services, refunds, chargebacks, taxes, and disclosures associated with them. First Cut Golf may charge a platform fee on those transactions as disclosed in your plan. First Cut Golf does not take a platform fee on player wager or side-game pots. Your use of the payment processor is also subject to that processor's own terms.

5. Wagers, Games, and Prizes

Golf groups commonly play skins, Nassau, and other side games, and clubs commonly award prizes in skill competitions. First Cut Golf lets you record and calculate these. This is the section to read closely.

  • First Cut Golf records and computes wagers, side games, payouts, and prize distributions as a convenience and as a scoring and record-keeping tool. The numbers First Cut Golf shows are a calculation, not a transaction.
  • First Cut Golf does not operate, host, or facilitate gambling. First Cut Golf does not accept, hold, escrow, pool, or transmit any wager, stake, buy-in, or prize money among players, and does not take any rake, commission, or cut of any wager or side-game pot.
  • Any money associated with a wager, side game, or prize is handled directly among the players and the organization. Settling those amounts is solely your and your members' responsibility.
  • You are solely responsible for ensuring that any wagering, side games, prize competitions, and money collection you conduct or record are lawful in your jurisdiction and comply with all applicable laws, rules, and the policies of your course or club. Laws on this vary by state and locality.
  • You represent that your use of First Cut Golf's wager and prize features is lawful where you and your members play, and you accept full responsibility for that use. If you are unsure whether an activity is permitted, consult a qualified attorney before using these features.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use First Cut Golf to break the law, infringe others' rights, transmit harmful or malicious code, attempt to gain unauthorized access to the service or other accounts, scrape or overload the service, or misrepresent your identity or authority. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your roster and member data lawful and consented where required.

7. Your Data and Content

You retain ownership of the data and content you put into First Cut Golf, such as your rosters, scores, and event details. You grant us a limited license to host, process, and display that data for the purpose of providing the service to you. You are responsible for having the rights and any necessary consents to the personal information you upload about your members. Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms.

8. Our Intellectual Property

First Cut Golf, including its software, design, and branding, is owned by us and protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not transfer any ownership of the platform to you. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell, or create derivative works of the platform except as allowed by law.

9. Third-Party Services

First Cut Golf relies on third parties for payment processing, text messaging, email delivery, and hosting. Your use of features that depend on those services is also subject to those providers' terms, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions.

10. Disclaimers

First Cut Golf is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that calculations, handicaps, standings, or payouts will be free of error. Nothing in First Cut Golf is legal, tax, accounting, or gambling-law advice.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, First Cut Golf and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred dollars if you are on a free plan.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless First Cut Golf and its operators from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the service, your content and data, the payments and prizes you administer, the wagers or games you conduct or record, or your violation of these Terms or of any law.

13. Termination

You may stop using First Cut Golf and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, fail to pay, or use the service in a way that creates risk or legal exposure for us or others. On termination, your right to use the service ends. We may make a reasonable effort to let you export your data, but we are not obligated to retain it indefinitely.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will update the effective date and may ask you to accept the new version. Your continued use of the service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Missouri, unless applicable law requires otherwise. [Confirm the governing-law state and venue, and any arbitration or class-action-waiver language, with your attorney.]

16. Contact

First Cut Golf is operated by First Cut Golf, LLC. Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected].