How Greenbound works

Signing in

There's no password. You sign in with a link we email to you.

1. Open greenbound.co.uk/admin.html, type your email address and press Send me a link. New to Greenbound? Press Create an account instead.
2. Open the email called “Your Greenbound admin sign-in link” and tap the link. It works for 15 minutes.
3. That's it. The same phone or computer stays signed in. On a different one, just ask for a new link.

Setting the day up

Admin takes you through it one step at a time. You can go back and change anything before you launch.

1. The name of the day and the date.
2. The course. Search for the club and pick the tees.
3. What you're playing, for example Stableford, a scramble or Best 2 to count. Best 2 to count or Best 3 of 4 can also go with Stableford or Stroke play, for two competitions off one card.
4. Teams, if it's a team competition like a Ryder Cup.
5. Your golfers. See Adding your golfers.
6. Tee times: who plays together, and when.
7. The rounds to score.
8. Check it all, then launch. See Launching the day.

Adding your golfers

On the Players step, press + Add players from your roster or a spreadsheet. Then pick whichever is easiest:

• From your tee sheet. Drag your spreadsheet (CSV or Excel) onto the box, or copy the rows and paste them in. Put a header row at the top and the columns can be in any order. A Time column sets up the tee times for you.
• From your roster. Search for anyone who has played with you before, then press + Add.
• One at a time. Type a name and a handicap index, then press + Add one player.

A place you haven't filled yet can go in as TBC. You can put the right name on it later, or remove it.

Sign-ups and your link

Sign-ups give you one link to send out. Your golfers open it, find their name and sign themselves up.

1. While you're setting the day up, press See who has signed up. On your list of days being set up, it's the Sign-ups button.
2. Press Open sign-ups. Greenbound makes one link for that day.
3. Press Copy the link or Copy a WhatsApp message, and send it the way you normally would: WhatsApp, email or text. That link is all your golfers need. There's nothing to install and no account to make.
4. Watch them come in on the same screen, with each golfer's handicap and who hasn't paid yet. Put on tee sheet places someone, and Download as a spreadsheet gives you the whole list.

Press Close sign-ups to stop new sign-ups. If you open them again, the same link still works.

What a golfer sees

1. They tap your link and see your day, with the tee times down the page.
2. They find their own name, or type part of it to search. An empty spot shows as “Free place”.
3. They type their handicap index. For a plus handicap they put + first, for example +1.1. If they haven't got one, they tick “I don't have a handicap”. They can add their golf club and England Golf number too.
4. It takes about a minute. They get an email to confirm, and they show up on your sign-ups list straight away.

Handicaps

Every golfer needs a handicap before the day can go live.

• Anyone without one shows Handicap needed on the Players step. Type theirs in beside their name, or remove a TBC place nobody has taken.
• Golfers who sign up can ask for their handicap to be checked with England Golf. On the sign-ups screen, press Check handicaps and follow the steps. You sign in to England Golf yourself, in your own browser. Greenbound never sees your England Golf password.
• The check only offers a match for the right name at the right club, and tells you when the club isn't an exact match. Nothing changes until you say so.

Launching the day

1. On the last step, check everything, then press Launch to players.
2. Your day goes live straight away. It's the day golfers see when they scan your QR code or open your link.
3. The day that was live before moves to Past events. Nothing is deleted, and its scores stay there.

If a round is still being played on the day that's live now, Greenbound asks you before it launches. And a day can't launch until every golfer has a handicap.