Complex tournaments made easy. Simple tournaments maybe even easier. Member/guest invitationals, recurring leagues, Ryder Cup events — professional-grade management for golf pros, league organizers, and power tournament directors.
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Managing a 16-week league in Excel is brutal. Tracking cumulative team standings across multiple formats is error-prone and eats up hours every week.
Emailing results to 30+ players. Texting tee times. Printing scorecards. It's a second job you didn't sign up for. Duck Hook Pro handles the busywork.
Golf Genius charges $1,000+/year and is overly complex for most needs. You need professional power without the enterprise price tag.
Enter each player's handicap index and Duck Hook Pro handles the rest. No manual stroke math before the round. Every scorecard shows a dot on each hole where a golfer gets a stroke.
Pick how strokes are given, game by game:
Set a handicap allowance (90%, 85%, whatever your game uses) and an event-wide cap when you need one.
Change where pops fall. The default stroke distribution follows the course's stroke index, but you can manually reassign any player's pop to a different hole — useful for split-tee formats or when the index doesn't reflect how the course actually plays for your group.
The game page updates on its own as scores come in, with a Pause button when you want it to hold still. Duck Hook Pro supports 41 formats — Skins, Nassau, Vegas, Best Ball, Scramble, Match Play, Quota, Stableford, Tilt, and more, including 16 the free app doesn’t score yet, such as Wolf, Banker, Hammer, Bingo Bango Bongo and Yellow Ball — and shows the right results for each: skins won, match status, points, or places.
Payouts are worked out for you. Play for a set amount per skin, point, or hole, or run a pool with a fixed buy-in. The game page lists who owes whom, with Venmo links.
Your golfers follow the same live leaderboard in the free Duck Hook Golf app.
Open the TV view on any screen in the clubhouse, grill room, or sim bay. It updates as scores come in and moves through each view by itself, so nobody has to touch it all day.
A line for every golfer, showing where they stand against par on each hole. You can see exactly where the round was won.
Eagles, birdies, birdie streaks, and big moves scroll across the top of the screen as they happen, for both gross and net scores.
The screen moves through the leaderboard, standings for your format, a scorecard for each course, and flight standings at a member/guest. Season standings have their own TV view too.
Not all golfers want to use the app — and that's fine. Duck Hook Pro's score grid works like a spreadsheet: arrow keys move between holes, Enter jumps to the next hole and wraps to the next golfer, and every box saves as you type. No Save button, no page reloads.
Each hole shows its own status, so you can see which box saved and which one didn't. If the connection drops, the score stays on the page and is sent again when the signal comes back.
On a phone, enter one hole at a time. Walking off a green with four cards in hand? The phone view shows one hole with the whole group on it, so you can punch in four scores and move on.
You can also change any player's handicap and pops from the same screen. Net scores update right away.
Upload a photo or scan of any paper scorecard — JPG, PNG, or PDF — and our AI extracts every score automatically. No templates to configure, no alignment tricks. Just point and shoot.
The AI focuses on what matters: the actual score written in each box. Circles around birdies, squares around bogeys, cross-outs, scribbles — none of that throws it off. Messy handwriting is fine. The numbers are all it needs.
You check it before it saves. Every scan opens a review screen so you can fix any misread before the scores go in. You get a notification when a scan is ready.
For the most accurate results, print the Duck Hook Pro scorecard before the round. With player names already matched to columns, the AI can assign every score to the right golfer without any guesswork.
From a Tuesday skins game to a three-day member/guest, you start everything in the same place. Pick what you're running and Duck Hook Pro walks you through the setup.
One round, one scorecard. Pick any of the 41 formats, choose your golfers, and play.
A club championship or a two-day invitational. Each day gets its own round, and the overall standings add up every round.
A weekly league on a set day with the same field. Every round for the season is created up front, and your golfers are added to each one.
Ryder Cup-style team events or individual series with unlimited rounds. Each round can be a different format with its own point value.
Flighted four-ball match play for members and their guests, with automatic flights and a shotgun tee sheet. See how it works.
Each round can be a completely different format — a Scramble match one day, Alternate Shot the next, then Best Ball and singles Match Play. Give each round its own point value so the last day matters most.
Duck Hook Pro builds the matches for every round, and your golfers see their matches in the app. Play it as teams, Ryder Cup-style, or as individuals.
Save any game or event as a template. Format, course, tees, handicap settings, and holes are all saved. Your staff share the same template library.
Schedule a whole series in one step. Pick the weekdays and a date range, and every round is created with the right settings. Next season, Run it again copies last year's event with new dates and the same roster.
Run it again. Every finished game has a Run it again button that sets up next week's game with the same settings and field.
Stop adding up eight weeks of results by hand. Every event gets a season points race and a scoring average table, built from the scores already in Duck Hook Pro.
Choose how points are awarded: a classic 10-8-7 scale, points by field size so a win in a full field counts more, or wins only. Drop each golfer's worst rounds with one click. Put it on the clubhouse TV, or export it to CSV.
Who's actually playing the best golf? Rank the field by gross or net average, and set a minimum number of rounds so someone who played once can't top the table. Nine-hole rounds count on the same 18-hole scale.
The flagship invitational is the hardest event of the year to run — registrations, pairings, flights, tee sheets, and a weekend of matches. Duck Hook Pro handles all of it, from the first sign-up to the final flight standings.
Every flight, every team and its combined handicap, plus a score-entry button for each flight and round and printable scorecards for every round.
Teams are seeded within each flight, and every team plays every other team once. Each match has its starting hole for the shotgun.
Pair every member with their guest in a fast pairing grid. Members can even register before they know who their guest is — fill the guest in later with one click.
Flights build themselves from combined team handicaps, balanced automatically. Then fine-tune on a drag-and-drop flights board — move teams, reorder seeds, add or rename flights.
Every team plays every other team in its flight in 9-hole four-ball matches. Win a hole for a point, halve it for a half — flight standings update live all weekend, in the app and on the clubhouse TV.
Generate the full shotgun tee sheet for the entire weekend in one click — waves, starting holes, and matchups laid out in a clean grid.
When the field is set, lock the event: teams, flights, and the tee sheet freeze so nothing shifts once scores start coming in. Unlock anytime if plans change.
Set a handicap cap for the event and capture every guest's GHIN number at registration. GHIN indexes are pulled the moment a player is added or updated, then re-synced automatically every night, so the field is always current.
Every event gets a public sign-up page — no login, no app required. It works for member/guest invitationals, weekly leagues, and one-day tournaments alike.
Copy your event's registration link and drop it in an email, text thread, or club newsletter. Golfers add themselves straight to the roster — members register their guest at the same time.
Every event comes with a print-ready QR sign for the pro shop counter or first tee. Golfers scan, register, and they're in — no clipboard, no transcribing names.
Set a registration deadline and sign-ups close automatically. Guests who register with an email get an event welcome email with a link to the free Duck Hook Golf app, so they arrive ready for live scoring.
Duck Hook Pro knows who plays at your course. These tools help you reach them.
Filter your roster with one click: played in the last 90 days, lapsed, never played, no app, no email, or no handicap. Each filter shows its count, and you can combine it with search.
Invite a segment to an event. Pick the golfers and an upcoming event, and each one gets an email with the sign-up link. Duck Hook Pro shows you who will be emailed and why anyone was skipped. Golfers who unsubscribed are never emailed, and a golfer is never invited to the same event twice.
Your course dashboard shows the golfers, rounds, average field size, repeat rate, and app adoption at your club, compared with last month.
Every club gets a public event board listing its upcoming games and events, each with a sign-up button. Share the link, print the QR code, or paste one line of code into your club's website. The board updates itself when you add an event.
Send announcements to your golfers. Post news for golfers who have played at your club. They see it in the free Duck Hook Golf app, and you can email it to the same golfers with one click.
Multi-round, multi-format team competitions with custom point systems, team captains, and cumulative standings across multiple days.
See who's playing at your course, what they shot, who they played with, and what tournaments they're running. Real-time facility visibility.
Generate print-ready scorecards grouped by cart, foursome, or full field. Ready to print before the round starts.
Enter each player's USGA handicap index and Duck Hook Pro computes net deltas automatically: each player's strokes equal their handicap minus the field's lowest. The low handicapper never pops. Includes reset tools, single and double pops, per-hole stroke reassignment, and GHIN index sync for players with a GHIN number — fetched on player add or update, refreshed nightly.
A cycling, big-screen leaderboard for any tournament. Point a clubhouse or sim-bay TV at it and standings update live as scores come in — flight by flight during member/guest events.
Run events spanning multiple courses with unified leaderboards and standings across the full field.
Invite golf pros and staff by email — they set their own password. Role-based access means each person sees only what they need, and you can add a co-manager to any game.
Bulk edit scores across players and courses. Fix mistakes fast — without hunting through individual scorecards.
Turn your groups into a shotgun start or tee times with 7–15 minute gaps, off the 1st tee or split between the 1st and 10th. Print it for the starter or export it to CSV.
Print final results or save them as a PDF, with team results first and overall standings for multi-day games. A settlement sheet shows each golfer's net for the round.
Get notified when a golfer signs up through your link or a scorecard scan finishes. If you miss something, a daily email sums up what's new.
See every game and event in a month view, filtered by course. On a phone, it switches to a simple list by date.
Paste a list of names or upload a CSV. Golfers you already have are matched, new golfers are created, and the whole field is added in one step. Export golfers, games, events, and scorecards to CSV anytime.
Before the round, Duck Hook Pro checks for missing tees, course data, handicaps, and team pairings, and links you straight to each fix. Your dashboard also shows anything that needs attention, like a game left open.
Manage one or more golf courses, staff, and course-specific settings from a single dashboard.
| Feature | Duck Hook Pro | Golf Genius |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Starting at $299/year | $1,000+/year |
| Free Player App | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recurring Leagues | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ryder Cup Events | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Scorecard Reader | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member/Guest Events | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-Registration Links & QR Codes | ✓ | ✓ |
| TV Leaderboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| Venmo Payouts | ✓ | — |
| Howard Vegas / Quota | ✓ | — |
| Side Games | ✓ | — |
| Mixed Formats Per League Round | ✓ | — |
| Golfer Insights Dashboard | ✓ | Limited |
| Simulator Support | ✓ | — |
Want the full breakdown? Read Duck Hook Golf vs. Golf Genius or Duck Hook Golf vs. Live Tourney.
Duck Hook Pro starts at $299/year, billed annually. Cancel anytime. This gives you access to every professional feature, including recurring leagues and event templates, season standings, tee sheets, member/guest events, AI scorecard reading, golfer segments and email invites, and organization management.
No. The Duck Hook Golf mobile app is completely free for all players. Only the tournament director or course operator needs a Duck Hook Pro subscription to access professional management features.
Five kinds, all started from the same setup screen: a single game; a multi-day game such as a club championship, with standings that add up every round; a standard event, which is a weekly league on a set day with the same field; a complex event with unlimited rounds, a different format and point value per round, and team (Ryder Cup-style) or individual play; and a member/guest event with flights, round-robin matches, and a shotgun tee sheet. Read the member/guest guide.
Yes — member/guest invitationals are a first-class event type. Members register themselves and their guest through a public link or QR code, teams are auto-flighted by combined handicap (with a drag-and-drop board for final tweaks), round-robin four-ball matches are generated within each flight, and the full weekend shotgun tee sheet builds itself in one click. Flight standings update live in the app and on the clubhouse TV leaderboard. Read the full member/guest guide.
Every event has a public sign-up page keyed to a private link — no login or app required. Share the link, or print the ready-made QR sign for the pro shop counter, and golfers add themselves to the roster. You can set a deadline so registration closes automatically, and guests who sign up with an email get a welcome email pointing them to the free Duck Hook Golf app.
Yes. Save any game or event as a template, then start a single game from it or schedule a whole series by picking the weekdays and a date range. For an event you ran last year, Run it again copies it with next year’s dates and the same roster.
Yes. Every club gets a public event board that lists its upcoming games and events, each with a sign-up button. Share the link, print the QR code, or paste the embed code into your club’s website, and the board updates itself whenever you add an event.
Yes. Duck Hook Pro includes organization management that lets you manage one or more golf courses, staff, and course-specific settings from a single dashboard.
Duck Hook Pro offers everything most courses need — recurring leagues, Ryder Cup events, AI scorecard reading, and golfer insights — at roughly 1/5 the price. Plus exclusive features Golf Genius doesn't offer: Venmo payouts, unique game formats like Howard Vegas and Quota, side games, mixed formats per league round, and simulator support.
Enter each player’s handicap index and Duck Hook Pro gives strokes for you. Each game uses one of three methods: USGA, a full course handicap from the tee’s slope and rating; Relative (net deltas), where the lowest handicap in the field plays at scratch and everyone else gets the difference; or USGA-Relative, which levels USGA course handicaps to the field’s low player. Strokes fall on the hardest holes by stroke index, you can set a handicap allowance and cap, and you can move any player’s strokes to different holes.
Yes — contact us about a free 90-day trial for golf courses and PGA professionals. Email support@duckhook.golf to get started.
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