Tournament detailed practical examples can be found =>here
A small checklist should help you with the organisation of a tournament. You should consider the following points well in advance:
After the entry deadline:
On the day of the tournament:
You can find examples of tournaments at Tournament practice.
There you will also find details on match play.
If you enter the date with „dot“ without the year, you will find all tournaments with this date, regardless of the year:
If you enter „Club“, for example, you will receive all tournaments with the name part „Club“ - regardless of the year:
The „Search“ function on the right requires an exact input. For example, if you search for a part of a name here, the first tournament with the part of the name will be found, e.g. in 2006, you would then have to call up „Search“ and confirm again until the competition in the desired year is found, which is less practical than the functions described above:
Status 27.3.25
Sometimes it is necessary to search for a DGV tournament number, e.g. if you receive an e-mail from the DGV with questions about a DGV tournament number.
We have therefore created a new search function.
If you enter the DGV TournamentID at the top under search term, only the matching tournament will be displayed immediately.
Search on the right (arrow) does not work for this purpose!
A DGV TournamentID always begins with 49 and has a total of 12 digits, e.g.: 490002622288
There is also a DGV TournamentID for RPR rounds. So if a tournament is not found, it could also be an RPR (registered private round), here there is another search function at Print RPR list (coming soon). A second reason could be that the DGV TournamentID is misspelled or does not appear at all in your tournaments and RPR.
All competition data is processed in the Competitions area. With Competitions/…create new, process, delete you get to the tournament selection list.
The same tournament selection opens quickly via the icon bar:
If you want to edit an existing tournament, select the tournament from the list and confirm with
Edit (F7) or click on the right on Newon the right to create a new tournament.
With the abbreviation PC CADDIE always automatically suggests a number, for example „10007“ for the 7th tournament in 2010. In many clubs, the automatic number assignment is completely sufficient.
Of course, you can also select your own abbreviations here, for example „10da17“ for the women's golf tournament in the 17th calendar week in 2010. This can speed up the selection of a specific tournament. The name can be very long under certain circumstances. As not all text can fit on one line, it makes sense to split a long tournament name into several lines. The printout on the various lists (e.g. start/results lists) will then be printed with several lines.
The number of holes you can choose between 1 and 108 (1 to a maximum of 6 rounds).
For a 9-hole tournament, set the number of holes to 9 set
How to set up 2 rounds of 9 holes each or a tournament with 3 rounds, where the middle round is only 9 holes long, can be read =>here
Depending on the number of holes, up to six input fields for the date of each round.
In the field Course field, specify the course on which the tournament will be played. In the normal case, i.e. if all rounds are played on the same course, enter your club number and confirm with Enter. You will receive the selection of your courts.
For a 9-hole tournament, please also select a course rated for 9 holes. course.
Select the desired place for this tournament and confirm with OK.
Course data loaded from the intranet is automatically displayed first in the selection and is highlighted in green. (Grey are „archived“ older course data, and red are manually created course data, e.g. for cross-country tournaments.
If the required course or possibly several required courses have not yet been created, you will find more information in the chapter Create course data.
You also have the option of using different courts in a multi-round tournament. In this situation, click the button Multiple seats in Turnier:
The following window opens:
First activate the option Special space allocation required option with a tick. Now enter the different seats for the rounds. You can also enter different groups of people for the division.
With Hcp limit of the tees you define which players are to be counted from which tees. The limits are defined separately for men and women.
For example:
Pay attention to players with PR in the tournament (in Germany there are no more PR with „letters“ with WHS). If you enter 54 as the upper limit for the tees, PR players are counted from the next tee, as PR is „less“ than 54!}
If you enter up to „PR“, players with PR from the same tee are also counted as 54 (PR players are always counted with the same handicap as HCP 54, but must be set correctly for the correct tee).
If you enter up to – at the end, both 54 and PR as well as people who do not yet have a PR will be counted from this tee!
Please enter this as shown in the following image (the tees displayed are always those that exist in your selected course data):
Remove the tick next to a gender to deactivate it, for example to create a women's tournament:
If you need different tees for further rounds, you can also set them differently for each round, select the round as shown in the following screenshot:
Note: „GREEN from vintage“ is displayed if the green tee is rated for only one course, e.g. with different courses per round. However, the green tee could of course only be calculated for the round with a green rating (this variant would be very unusual for multi-round tournaments).
It is also possible in the Price setting for groups of people other discounts! You should only use this setting if the ones shown so far are not sufficient! Read on carefully first!
Priority is always important:
How you can also print the manual tees permitted in the announcement on the start lists,
read =>here
It is also possible to set the tee for individual players manually. This is useful, for example, if individual seniors are playing red or if the players can choose the tee according to the announcement. This setting only applies to the tournament in which it is made. To do this, enter a dot and the first letter of the tee in the start list editor after the person's search abbreviation, for example „quro.r“ (if the player is to play from red). You can also choose the convenient option and select the player in the player editor and click on the blue information „i“ on the right and select the tee, as shown in the following image.
Enter additional information: itee:B (example for blue men or ladies)
This setting of the tee colour in the person is valid for this person for all tournaments!
Please also note whether tees that are requested are also rated for your course: Clubs and courses
Check: Print start list change from BRUTTO results to tee colour
You can set which tee colours can be selected manually. These are also printed on the start list and the results list in the header text.
These manual tees are also released for the ⇒PC CADDIE Online Tournament - module on your club website and can therefore also be individually selected during online tournament registration.
A main tee with – must be defined. Enter the text „man.“ (for manual) for all other markdowns that can be selected.
In this example, men's YELLOW and women's RED are the standard tees for the competition.
In the tournament data settings, under „Hcp limit of tees“, the manual tees are displayed with an „m“:
When your players register online, they will be able to select the desired tee colour as shown in the following image:
The selected tee colour is then directly transferred to the tournament and looks like this in the person editor:
To check the colours, simply print out a start list with the tee colours. tee colours
The prerequisite is that GREEN tees are rated for your course so that you receive the display by year.
Set at HCP limit of tees e.g. as in the following screenshot, all men from yellow and all ladies from red. You only determine the juniors from green by specifying the year of birth:
further Information on HCP calculation can be found here, this link can also be accessed from any tournament by clicking on Information in the tournament mask!
Nevertheless, players who exceed the registration limit can also be entered in the tournament. PC CADDIE will point this out by means of a security query if you want to enter the player in the buffer:
For four-player tournaments, you can also enter the limit for a team of two. For example, if you enter „56“, the limit is not set for each individual player, but the pairing. Up to handicap „45“ the limit applies to an individual player, from „46“ it applies to the pairing. This means that the sum of the handicaps of both players must not exceed the limit - otherwise otherwise both players will be reduced proportionately.
Detailed information can be found here: Tournament information: HCP limit for foursomes
PC CADDIE knows all common game forms. The most important settings are Game form and counting method. Overall, you have many possible combinations. With Form of play you can select the basic game form. Here you have the choice between the following game forms:
The game forms 1 to 9 are combined with the selection of the counting method.
To create a tournament with a „free form of play“, for example „3-racket tournament“, click on „Internet“ in the basic tournament settings:
Tick the box next to manually - You can then also name the game form!
Please note that these tournaments can only be played „not HCPI-relevant“.
All forms of play can be played with the following counting methods can be combined:
Just as with „individual tees“, it is also possible to set an individual counting method for individual players in the player editor in the information, e.g. if the tournament is advertised as a counting game, but a player is to be counted Stableford. However, bear in mind the prize evaluation. Do you want to mix counting game strokes and Stableford points in one prize?
This setting is not permitted in Austria according to the ÖGV (Austrian Golf Association). The counting method is the same as in the finished game combinations.
With the „Finished game combinations“ setting, the „Counting method“ line disappears and another field opens.
Here, the forms of play are preset that are permitted in Austria in Austria. You are welcome to use these variants, but if you require further game forms, switch from the „ready-made game forms“ to the combinations as explained above.
You should also dispense with the „ready-made game forms“ for multi-round tournaments with different game forms.
For the scramble variants called „ready-made game forms“, it is also necessary to take care of the desired calculation formula!
With the help of the button Information button you will receive all the necessary tournament information:
By clicking on „Information“ you will be linked to the WHS Tournament Information General in our Wiki.
In a tournament over several rounds, you can define different forms of play for each individual round. For example, the most common variant is probably the „classic foursome“ in the first round and „singles“ in the second round. To define these different forms of play, click in the tournament data under Form of play on Details and then click on Different forms of play for the individual Runden:
Enter the type of game for the first round in the main window and define the subsequent rounds here (our example 2nd round „Singles“):
The standard formulas described in detail in the Tournament information are of course standardised. However, if you have other wishes and ideas for a customised sponsor or birthday tournament, for example, please do not hesitate to enter the formula yourself. To do this, use the button Detailsbutton, which is located directly next to the game form in the tournament mask, to access this selection:
Under „Formula“ you can create your own formula using the above letters and numbers: e.g. M1*0.9+M2*0.1 (for 0.9 of the lower - and 0.1 of the higher course handicap of the partners). Please note that decimal places are always marked with a DOT, not a comma, and that the mathematical calculation methods are always used (bracket before dot before dash).
In the case of the „Scramble“ game form (3-person scramble and 4-person scramble), after clicking the button Hcp calculation button, the information and selection options for calculating the course handcap for scrambles will open. The settings here apply to all scrambles, including the scramble selection options for the finished game combinations. There are „Default settings“ here and you can also save your own formulae.
Under the button Selection button already contains preset formulas.
When entering an individual formula, please note that decimal places are always marked with a DOT, not a comma, and that the mathematical calculation methods are always used (bracket before dot before dash).
TIP The „Girls go Golf“ formula was created especially for the Bavarian Golf Association, but it should always be used if you want a different weighting for the 3-player games in the 4-player scramble. The 4-man games are calculated 40/30/20/10 per cent, the 3-man games 50/30/20. Simply select the formula. You can also enter a different weighting, e.g. one adapted to the WHS.
This setting is not supported in connection with a team ranking!
An individual stableford system is also possible with PC CADDIE. This setting is rarely used for fun tournaments. With the help of the button Details button to find the corresponding button:
You activate this function by ticking „Special Stableford scoring activated“ at the top and then distribute the desired points for the corresponding results, e.g. like this:
For a tournament with several rounds (number of holes more than „18“) you will also receive these selections, e.g: Eclectic hole by hole
If you play an eclectic directly in the tournament, it is important that all players are entered in the rounds so that the calculation can work. A player who does not play a round must still be entered in at least the buffer for that round!
In addition, the CR equalisation cannot be determined when calculating an eclectic in the tournament. Please switch this off under „DETAILS“ next to the game form!
Alternatively, use the Jahres-Eclectic . In this case, create normal individual tournaments!
These settings determine the calculation of the overall result. For club championships, for example, „Accumulate/Sum“ is usually selected here, in which case the individual rounds are added together. The other variants enable a hole-electic or a round-electic over up to 6 rounds. For an annual eclectic, please note the function Tournaments/Multiple tournaments and Golf weeks/Annual eclectic. The yearly eclectic function is preferable if the tournaments are scheduled at different times. Please also read the chapter Jahres-Eclectic .
It is important to select the playoff. You have 9 options. Please also note that for total results and flag betting game the jump-off setting is not supported.
Please also note that automatic playoffs for a team ranking team scoring is only possible with the following playoff settings:
Last, heaviest, heaviest/lightest
Click here for more details: Results list with sting details
As of July 2023 - new possibilities will come with PC CADDIE version 14.1, which will not interfere with the HCPI relevance check with the DGV when using blind hole in the price settings.
Read about this in our update wiki ⇒Set blind hole with the prices
If you Blind Hole to „Yes“ (Germany - please only for non-HCPI relevant tournaments), the tournament is initially defined here as a „blind hole“ without specifying the holes to be scored (e.g. for publication). When entering the results, all hole results are recorded for the players as usual.
Germany - for HCPI-relevant tournaments please use Blind-Hole "Prizes" and set the prize directly in the prize settings, also with the respective holes!
After the draw for the holes to be scored the holes to be rated are entered in the blind-hole query. A correctly calculated results list can be printed out immediately afterwards. In the case of such a blind hole scoring, the result is only calculated from the holes specified here. The blind hole scoring can be switched to „No“ at any time - the result is then calculated for all 18 holes and can be printed directly.
PLEASE NOTE: The „technical“ hole number must always be entered here in the order of the scorecard. For a 9-hole round on the course data of the back nine, you can name the hole numbers in the course data „10, 11, 12, 13 etc“. However, to include the result of hole „12“ in the scoring, a 3 must be entered here, as this is the third hole in the scoring (of the course data set).
If a blind-hole competition is played over several rounds, 18 must be added for blind-hole holes from the second round onwards. For example, hole 3 of the second round is ultimately the player's 21st hole (18+3), so you can enter „21“ in the blind-hole score in order to score it.
IMPORTANT: Blind holes cannot be at the same time as team scoring i.e. blind hole should always be set to NO when printing a team score!
IMPORTANT: As long as Blind Hole is set to „YES“, it is not possible to close a tournament possible! Set Blind Hole to „NO“ to finalise the tournament. (This is no longer possible after entering the results in Germany, which is why it is better to only process blind hole via the prizes).
For tournaments that have been cancelled (not all results are available), use the function Tournament cancellation
In the field Annual prizes field, you can enter whether the tournament should have an annual prize effect. You can choose between „No“ and „Category A“ to „Category D“.
The setting in the tournament initially only ensures that it can be published if the tournament has an annual price effect.
Read under Annual prizes for more information on the evaluation options.
At Internal/Guests you determine whether all players are allowed to play in this tournament („Open“), only members („Internal“) or only guests („Guest Tournament“).
The selection „Invitation tournament“ is only displayed with the module PCCADDIE://ONLINE-Turniermanagement module on the Internet.
At HCPI Relevance you have the following options:
Via the button Prices/Categories button to define the price definition button. Please read how to define these at Price evaluation .
The button Teams button to define pro-am rankings, for example, or to define team rankings for league or interclub tournaments. Pro-Am tournaments are normally organised as individual events with team scoring. You can find out more about this topic at Team evaluation .
The pin positions can be printed separately on blank paper or integrated into scorecards. Read more about this at Pin-Positionen .
Click on the button Tender text, button to generate it:
You can enter a customised text here. The font in the editing window is not proportional, but will be printed later in the freely selectable proportional font. It is therefore also necessary to set tabs here, which determine which positions should appear flush with each other. The tabs are set by clicking on the button Tab → (1) button and displayed as a small rectangle. To the right of this is the button Insert field button (2), which you can use to add practical commands:
The following fields can be used in the tender text, for example:
<PREISE> | List of defined prices |
---|---|
<RDATUM> | Date of the current round („31.10.11“) |
<R> | Round number („2.“) |
<RD> | Round number, English („2nd“) |
<TAG> | Day („Monday“) |
<DAY> | Day, English („Monday“) |
Above the text window, to the left of the Tab button, the row and column position is displayed. Usually about 70-75 characters fit in one line. The number of lines is practically unlimited.
The buttons on the right-hand side of the dialogue window can be used to transfer the text from other text areas within the same tournament (from the entry list, the start list or the results list) (Load from…). You can also load the texts from other tournaments. You can also save your standard entry texts as text files (text file) and of course load them again. It is not possible to print this entry form directly. The text entered here will be printed later in connection with the entry list (entry list) or start and result lists.
Information can be found under: QeSC - Tournaments with qualified electronic scorecard
How to prepare a tournament so that it can be transferred to the INTRANET of the German Golf Association (DGV) and also to SwissGolfnetwork (SGN) can be read here in the section Creating a tournament in PC CADDIE
All information about entry fees can be found here: Nenngeld
Tournaments are often similar; for example, a women's tournament that is held every fortnight in the same format with the same announcement texts and the same prize divisions. First check whether the tournament you want to copy is set up correctly. For series, always create the first tournament of the year manually (without copying). Then proceed as follows for other identical tournaments:
TIP In such cases, you can simplify your work:
Only the dates (also regarding the Internet, registration limits, etc.) still need to be adjusted.
If, for example, you want to copy an HCPI-relevant tournament and the copy should be „not HCPI-relevant“, this is no longer possible since the introduction of the WHS, even if you only need the copy because of additional price settings:
Via the button Players button takes you directly to the start list editor, which you can also access in the menu under Competitions/Create players, organise start list in the menu. Read more about Entering players, dividing up the starting list .
Click on Results, to go directly to the results entry for this tournament. Read more about Ergebnisse eingeben .
With the button Print button (F8) you can call up all print functions (entry list, start list, results list etc.). etc. You will be prompted to select the desired list type.
The following tournament lists can be printed:
If a tournament has only been created without being transferred to the intranet, it can be deleted without any problems. First call up the tournament and then click on the button Delete button.
However, if it has been transferred to the intranet or has already been completed, it can only be deactivated:
The tournament appears in light grey in the list of all tournaments:
If you want to activate an inactive tournament, click as usual on Change (F11) and on Internet.
Change the display status accordingly:
Tournaments are not archived. You can only set individual tournaments
to „inactive“ in PC CADDIE with the delete button.
Basically, because nothing is archived, you have the option of viewing tournaments from previous years at any time.
tournaments from previous years at any time.
In Austria, only the „finished game forms“ are permitted in the game forms (ÖGV), therefore other game forms are not adjustable. Likewise, there are no RPR rounds in the „finished game forms“, as RPR rounds in Austria are processed directly in the admin area of the golf club.
You can set whether a single tournament is HCPI-relevant or not here:
The tournament takes place in February, the course is probably not playable according to the rules.
You request that the tournament be cancelled as „not HCPI relevant“. In this case, an „automatic OK“ is sent from the intranet, as the tournament date is outside the „season“:
Do not forget to change the settings for the Internet and then transfer the tournament to the INTRANET.
You will receive the answers from the intranet with another intranet synchronisation (or automatically on an ongoing basis if you have the intranet service installed). You can see the results in the intranet information window:
The tournament takes place on 10 May (during the „season“) and is set as „not HCPI-relevant“.
After transmission to the intranet, you receive an alarm and the competition is automatically set to „HCPI-relevant“.
Select the line with the alarm and click on „Edit“:
With „Open tournament“ you are directly in the basic settings of the converted betting game:
Now think about what you need to do:
During the season, competitions can be set as NOT HCPI relevant, with the reason DIVERS, if the competitions are not played according to the rules, e.g. 6 hole competition or 3 club tournament.
These competitions are accepted as HCPI relevant, subject to change by the DGV.
With the setting „Course not playable in accordance with the rules“ or „Sponsor tournament“, please contact regularien@dgv.golf.de!
If the course data is not loaded from the intranet, the tournaments are not recognised as HCPI-relevant and are automatically changed to NOT HCPI-relevant.