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How to runa golf society.
Practical guides for society secretaries, captains, treasurers and anyone who ended up holding the spreadsheet: organising golf days, season competitions, entry fees, handicaps, formats and trips.
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How to Plan Your Golf Society's 2027 Season
A practical plan for getting your society's 2027 season booked before the good dates go: how many fixtures to run, when to book, what to charge, and the handful of decisions to make now so the season runs itself.
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How to Run an Order of Merit for Your Golf Society Season
How to set up a season-long order of merit that stays fair across mixed handicaps and patchy attendance — which scoring model to use, how many rounds should count, what to do about guests, and how to settle ties.
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Best Apps for Scoring a Golf Society Day (2026 Comparison)
Six ways to score a golf society day, compared honestly — a spreadsheet, Golf GameBook, VPAR, Squabbit, Golf Genius and Caddie Live. What each is genuinely best at, what it costs, and which one fits the day you are actually running.
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The Golf Society AGM: Agenda, Roles and What to Actually Decide
What a golf society AGM is actually for, a running order that takes an hour rather than three, the decisions worth putting to a vote, and the handful of things to settle before the meeting ends.
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Starting a Golf Society: The Complete Guide
How to start a golf society from nothing — the founding group, the name and structure, who does what, what to charge, a first fixture list, handicaps for a mixed membership, and how a season ties together into an order of merit and a presentation night.
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Handicaps for Mixed-Ability Golf Days: A Simple Guide
A practical guide to choosing golf day prizes, running popular on-course contests and organising a prize-giving that keeps players engaged. Includes ideas for main awards, novelty prizes, charity games and golfer-friendly gifts.
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Golf Day Prize Ideas and On-Course Games
A practical guide to choosing golf day prizes, running popular on-course contests and organising a prize-giving that keeps players engaged. Includes ideas for main awards, novelty prizes, charity games and golfer-friendly gifts.
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How to Plan a Charity Golf Day That Actually Raises Money
A practical guide to running a charity golf day that raises real money—from setting a clear fundraising target and securing sponsors to adding revenue streams, controlling costs and delivering a day players will want to support again.
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How to Run the Draw and Tee Sheet for a Golf Day
A well-planned golf day draw keeps the pace moving, mixes the right people together and helps the whole event run smoothly. This guide explains how to build a fair tee sheet, choose between tee times and a shotgun start, balance groups and handle the last-minute changes that always seem to happen.
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How to Organise a Corporate Golf Day: Budget, Format and Checklist
A practical guide to organising a corporate golf day that impresses clients and reflects well on your business — covering goals, budget, format, sponsorship, prizes, hospitality, scoring and the day’s running order.
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How to Set Up a Live Leaderboard for Your Golf Day
Set up live scoring for your golf day so players can enter scores from the course and follow a real-time leaderboard on their phones and the clubhouse screen.
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Golf Day Formats Explained: A Guide for Event Organisers
A clear guide to the most popular golf day formats, including Stableford, Texas Scramble, Better Ball, Match Play, Foursomes and Greensomes — with advice on who each format suits and the recommended handicap allowance to use.
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How to Organise a Golf Society Day: The Complete Guide
Organising a golf society day is one of those jobs that looks simple from the outside and turns into a hundred small decisions the moment you volunteer for it. Where do you go? How much do you charge? What format keeps a 6-handicapper and a 24-handicapper both enjoying themselves? Who's collecting the money, and what happens when three people drop out the night before?
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Sonna Golf's destination guides cover where to take a group: courses, regions and what a golf trip actually costs. Organise the trip here, choose where to go over there.
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