Durations are yours
The starter blocks are an illustrative example, not a recommendation. Rounds vary with the course, the format and the field, and only the people running your course can tell you what is realistic.
Page 04 · The run of show
The Run of Show
Name the blocks of the day, give each a length in minutes, and fix either the opening time or the time you must be finished. The timeline writes itself in clock times, ready to print for the starter, the caterer and the volunteers.
The builder
Set the clock
The blocks pre-filled below are an illustrative shotgun-start day. Change any name, length or order, or load a different starting point. Durations are yours to set; ask the course how long a round of your format takes for your field size and enter that.
0 to 60. Added after every block except the last.
Start from
Blocks of the day
There are no blocks yet. Add the first block of the day, or start from one of the templates above.
The output
The timeline
Nothing to schedule yet. Add a block with a duration of at least one minute and the timeline will appear here.
Plain-text version
Field notes
Pacing the day
Read the day backwards
The finish is usually the fixed point: the dining room has a closing time, the caterer a service window, the guests a drive home. Choose Finish time above and the builder works backward to the moment registration has to open. If that moment is earlier than you hoped, shorten a block or cut one; do not hope the round runs fast.
Give the transitions their own blocks
Most delays live between activities, not inside them: the walk from the range to the carts, the queue at the scoring desk, the shuffle from the last green to the dining room. Name those moments as blocks, even short ones, and they stop being a surprise. The buffer field adds the same cushion after every block when you want a quick, uniform margin.
Share one version
Print the timeline or copy the text and send the same version to the course staff, the caterer and your volunteers. If the schedule changes on the day, change the single source and reissue it. Two timetables in circulation is one too many.
Edge cases, handled
- A day that crosses midnight: blocks that start after midnight are marked with the next day, so a late finish never looks like an early start.
- A block with no valid length: it is flagged and left out of the timeline until its minutes are a whole number from 1 to 1,440.
- Total over 24 hours: the builder warns you, because a schedule that long is almost always a typo.
- No opening time: the timeline waits, with a message, instead of guessing.
- Reordering: every block has Move up and Move down buttons, so nothing depends on dragging.
- Printing: the controls drop away and the timeline prints with your event name on top. Turn background graphics off to save ink.
Where your schedule lives
Your blocks are saved in this browser as you edit, and are never sent anywhere. Copy or print the finished schedule before you clear site data.
Small print
What the builder assumes
One continuous day
Blocks run one after another with the optional buffer between them. If two things happen at once, such as lunch service during the putting contest, schedule the longer one and mention the other in its note.
Local time only
Times are plain clock times with no time zone. Daylight-saving changes are not applied, so build the schedule for the date that matters and trust the clock on the wall.