How to Set Up a Golf Tournament in GolfTracker: The Complete Walkthrough

Setting up a golf tournament in GolfTracker starts with a free signup and a five-step wizard — Brand, Event, Course, Pricing, Site — and finishes with sponsors, scoring and event-day tools you can build out whenever you're ready. Nothing has to happen all at once: every step below is independently editable later, and most organizers spread this across a few sessions rather than doing it all in one sitting.

This guide is the map. Each section below is its own full walkthrough.

Start here: the five-step setup wizard

Sign up free at golftracker.ai/signup and you land directly in the setup wizard.

• Your Brand — upload your logo, and GolfTracker builds a matching color scheme automatically.
• Your Event — name your tournament, set your app event code, date and venue.
• Your Course — paste your course's website and GolfTracker reads the scorecard, or skip it for now.
• Pricing — Single, Pair and Foursome prices. This is the one required step: your registration page stays closed until all three are set.
• Your Site — public contact info and which pages show on your site. Finish this and your event site is live.

Before you promote your event: confirm it actually works

• Confirm your registration page is live — a two-minute check that your /register page shows real prices, not "Registration Opens Soon."

Sell and manage sponsorships

• Create your sponsorship tiers — build your packages first: name, price, benefits.
• Add your sponsors — assign real sponsors into those tiers, each with their own public micro-page.

Build out your course

• Add course maps and GPS yardage — an interactive course map, hole sponsor placement, and GPS-accurate front/center/back yardage in the GolfTracker app.

Get ready for event day

• Set up QR code check-in — scan golfers in, take walk-up money, and track arrivals live.
• Set up pairings and live scoring — build your tee-time groups and confirm your course's par so your public leaderboard is ready before the first tee shot.

Stay in touch with your field

• Email your registered players — branded email blasts to registrants, players or sponsors, straight from your admin.

What it costs

GolfTracker's Starter plan is free, funded by a small platform fee on registrations you actually collect — so there's nothing to pay before your event has real money coming in. Pro and White-Label plans add a full multi-page site, sponsor self-serve portals, real-time financial reporting, and a lower platform fee. See the full pricing comparison for the details.

Ready to try it? Start your free tournament site — you'll be inside the setup wizard in under a minute.