Host’s program · Annual lenders’ golf outing
A toolkit for the one day a year your committee has to get right.
A scorecard calculator, a balanced foursome builder and a run-of-show planner, bound together with an eighteen-point host checklist. Use them on a laptop in the clubhouse or on a phone at the starter’s table. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Independent toolkit. No event date, venue, sponsor or result is implied anywhere in this program.
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Contents
Three tools and a way to reach the starter, one page each. Every tool does a single job without asking for an account, a login or a fee.
Eighteen holes on any course. Set par and stroke index by hole, enter each player’s strokes and handicap, and the card returns Stableford points, gross and net scores, nine-hole subtotals and a ranked standings list. Switch to scramble mode when the unit of play is a team.
Paste the field, one player per line with a handicap, and receive groups that are level on average. Reshuffle until the draw feels right, then adjust by hand with a pointer, a finger or the keyboard alone.
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.
A question, a bug, a feature the next committee will want. The form drafts your message and hands it to your own email app.
The route
An outing is planned the way a hole is played: a decision off the tee, a safe second, a precise approach, and a putt that counts. The toolkit follows the same line.
Choose the format, the field size and the handicap policy. These three choices set every number the other tools will use, so make them first and make them in writing.
Work the checklistOnce entries close, turn the roster into groups that are level on average. Reshuffle freely; the point is a draw nobody can quarrel with.
Build the groupsLay the day out in minutes, from registration to the last handshake, and read the clock times back before anyone else sees them.
Plan the dayAt the scoring desk, post cards as they arrive. Stableford points, net scores and a ranked list are ready before the first group is through the buffet.
Open the scorecardHost checklist
The front nine is planning; the back nine is the final week and the day itself. Tick tasks off as you go. Your ticks stay in this browser so the list is still here tomorrow, and nowhere else.
Stableford, scramble, or one of each? Decide before the invitation goes out, because it drives the scoring rules and the handicap policy.
Agree a maximum number of players and a rule for the waiting list. A number everyone understands beats a diplomatic maybe.
Full handicap, a percentage allowance, or flights. Put it in one sentence that fits on the scorecard.
List what the entry fee covers and what it does not. Surprises are for the prize table, not the invoice.
Choose a firm closing moment and a withdrawal rule, then announce both with the invitation.
One column, one format, one person responsible. The foursome builder reads exactly that list.
Use the foursome builder, reshuffle until the balance feels fair, then hand-adjust for the pairings only a host would know about.
Block out the day in minutes and share the draft with the course staff and caterer while changes are still cheap.
One page, one role each: registration, starter, scoring desk, contests, photographer. Everyone should know who decides.
Print scorecards with par and stroke index filled in, plus spares. Pencils are a better idea than pens.
Signs, parking, carts, the range, the route from the 18th green to the dining room. Walk it as a guest would.
Final counts, dietary notes and service timing, in writing, with the person who will actually be cooking.
Closest to the pin, longest drive, skins: decide how each is measured and who verifies it before anyone tees off.
Who makes it, by when, and how every player hears about it. Write the plan down before the forecast makes it urgent.
Check players in against your list, hand over cards and instructions, and note late changes where the whole desk can see them.
Brief the field at the first tee, then have someone drive the course. Slow play is easier to fix at hole four than at hole fourteen.
Every card is signed by the marker and the player before it leaves the scoring desk. Post scores as they arrive.
Read the results, thank the people who made the day, and write down what you would change while it is fresh.
Local rules
Every calculation happens on your device. There is no server behind these pages, no account, no analytics and no network request. Save the folder and the toolkit works with the wifi off, which at some courses is the only way it will work at all.
Any figure you see pre-filled is an illustrative example you can overwrite: a sample par-72 layout, a sample field, a sample timetable. The toolkit supplies arithmetic; your committee supplies the rules, the handicaps and the policies.
The DC Lending Classic is a toolkit, not an event. It has no date, venue, sponsors or results to announce, and it is not connected to any golf association, handicap authority, club, lender or tournament of a similar name.
Scores, rosters and schedules are kept in this browser’s own storage so a refresh does not lose them. Clear your site data or use a private window and they are gone. Copy or print anything you need to keep.