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Emailing a spreadsheet and hoping everyone opens it
Registration, payments, and roster tracking that lives in your inbox and breaks the moment two people edit it.
Golf operations software · Free plan available
Modern golf operations
From the front desk to the final putt.
Back9Ops is the operations platform for golf courses, clubs, and leagues. Registration, pairings, scoring, standings, contests, and player messages in one calm place — plus a front desk your counter staff sign into with a name and a four-digit code.
Free plan · no time limit
Nine scoring formats · Wolf and Nassau on every plan
No email address needed for counter staff
Stop running it on spreadsheets and texts.
If you're running a course, a league, or a tournament, you've probably lived these moments. Back9Ops replaces all of it.
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Chasing payment confirmations in a group text
Back9Ops tracks paid, unpaid, and waived status per player — visible to you in seconds, not buried in a thread.
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Printing pairings 10 minutes before tee time
Generate balanced pairings by handicap automatically. Distribute digitally or print a clean PDF tee sheet.
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Posting results on Facebook because there's nowhere else
Live leaderboard, round results, and season standings — all on a dedicated page you can link from anywhere.
Everything your operation needs in one place.
Built around how golf staff actually work — from first invite to posted results, every step is handled.
Event & league management
Create tournaments or recurring league seasons with a clean wizard. Manage field limits, waitlists, and public registration pages that feel official.
- Event creation wizard — up and running in 2 minutes
- Waitlist with real-time position display for players
- Payment tracking: click to cycle Unpaid → Paid → Waived
- Season standings, round history, biggest-mover tracking
Pairings, tee times & scoring
From manual control to full automation — generate balanced pairings, assign tee times, and watch the leaderboard update as scores come in.
- Auto pairings balanced by handicap (Club plan)
- Manual pairings & tee time assignment (League+)
- Course and playing handicaps worked out for you, using the USGA formulas
- One-click results finalization and posting
Player experience
Players get a clean mobile experience from invite through scorecard — no clutter, no confusion about where to go or what to do next.
- Mobile-first scorecard — tap any hole to score, auto-saves
- Personal dashboard: tee time, pairings, round notes in one view
- Live leaderboard link shareable to anyone
- “Follow me” — players share their live scores so family can watch, no app needed
- QR guest scoring — scan and score, no account required (League and Club)
Communications hub
Stop chasing people down. Send targeted messages automatically or on schedule — without leaving the platform.
- Email invites and round reminders (League+)
- Push notifications to players' devices (Club)
- Auto-trigger messages: scoring opens, results posted (Club)
- Segmented messaging: target unpaid, waitlist, or no-shows (Club)
✦ All plans · Front Desk
The people at your counter don't need an email address.
Seasonal help. A college kid on weekends. The retired member who covers Tuesdays. You shouldn't have to create an email account for any of them just to let them work the desk.
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A name and four digits
Add whoever is working the counter by name. Each one gets their own four-digit code. No email address, no password to forget, no licence to buy.
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The shop's iPad becomes the front desk
It signs players up for events and leagues and finds anyone in your player list — and it can never open your settings or your billing.
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Everything the desk prints, in one place
League nights and events coming up in the next two weeks, each with Print Now and cart signs. If something isn't ready to print, it says why.
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It locks itself
After ten quiet minutes the next person has to say who they are. Every change carries a name and a time, in a list you can actually read.
Every format your club plays.
Nine formats, plus side games. Most are on every plan — only Skins, Match Play, and Ryder Cup need the Club plan.
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Stroke Play
The everyday competition. Gross and net side by side, with course and playing handicaps worked out for you.
All plans⛳
Scramble
The team plays one shared card — anyone in the group can enter the hole, and the team's score is what counts. Teams of two, three, or four.
All plans🏌️
Best Ball
Everyone plays their own ball; the team takes the best score on each hole. Team standings are shown gross.
All plans🤝
Chapman
Two players, one ball from the second shot on. Team standings are shown gross; the 60/40 team handicap is used for net side games.
All plans📊
Stableford
Points per hole by net score — nobody is ever out of it. Two points tables to pick from, plus Quota (Chicago), where each player plays against their own number.
All plans🥊
Match Play
Full bracket management with W/L/T standings. Stroke leaderboard tracked separately.
Club plan💰
Skins
Lowest score on a hole wins it; ties carry over. Run it as the whole event on Club — or add it as a side game to a stroke play or Stableford event on any plan.
Club plan · side game on all plans🏆
Ryder Cup
Foursomes, Four-Ball, and Singles sessions. Full 0.5/1/0 point system with USGA handicap notes.
Club plan🐺
Wolf
A rotating "Wolf" picks a partner each hole — or goes solo for bigger points. 3 to 6 players, scored automatically.
All plans🎯
Nassau
Front 9, Back 9, and Total 18 play as three separate matches, with automatic presses — tallied for you. Add it to a stroke play or Stableford event.
All plansEverything that happens on the day.
Setting the event up is the easy part. This is the part that used to need a clipboard, a calculator, and someone shouting across the car park.
Contests, flights & shotgun starts
The parts of a real outing that generic scoring apps quietly leave out.
- Closest to the pin and longest drive, claimed from the player's own phone — the player who just lost the lead gets told
- Shotgun and modified shotgun starts
- Flights split by handicap, age, or gender — or by hand, and the ones you placed by hand stay put when you rebuild
- Nine-hole rounds on an eighteen-hole course, front nine or back nine
Scoring that survives a scramble field
Built for groups where not everyone has the app, the battery, or the patience.
- One QR sign per cart — players tap their own name and keep score, no app and no account (League and Club)
- One phone can keep the card for the whole group
- Tap players in as they arrive — nobody is marked absent just because you haven't got to them
- A designated marker per group, with a review screen for anything that doesn't match (stroke play and Stableford)
- A player who retires on the 12th is recorded as withdrawn, not erased
- Yardage to the green on the scoring console, once your course has mapped its greens — measured to the hole being played, and off until someone taps it on
Up and running in minutes.
No onboarding call. No training. No waiting. Create your first event and see the platform in action right now.
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Create your event or league
Set your format, course, dates, field limits, and handicap rules. The wizard takes about 2 minutes.
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Invite players and open registration
Send invites, share a QR flyer, or open public registration. Track who's in, who's paid, and who's waitlisted.
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Run the event with confidence
Generate pairings, open scoring, and watch the leaderboard update in real time. Post results with one click.
League night, handled.
Most of what a commissioner actually does every week isn't scoring. It's this.
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Pick your night, get your season
Nine holes or eighteen. Individuals, or teams of two, three, or four. Choose the night and every week of the season is created for you.
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Absences and subs, without the group text
Players tell you themselves whether they're in this week. Mark who's out and who's filling in — pairings, scorecards, and scoring all follow along.
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Your league's own handicaps
Build them from your own weekly scores — rolling averages, best few of the last several, drop the outliers. Nobody needs a number from anywhere else, and you can show any member exactly how theirs was worked out.
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Publish the season, then run it back
Post every week's matchup on day one — "Week 9: vs The Mulligans." Next spring, start the new season with one click and last season keeps its history.
The Free plan covers one-off events. Leagues start on the League plan.
✦ All plans · Less chasing
Let the players handle their own spot.
Sunday night shouldn't be spent answering texts about who's in and who's out.
- A player who can't make it cancels from their own private link — and if they change their mind, there's a Put me back in button
- The waiting list moves up on its own, and everyone can see where they stand
- A captain signs up the whole foursome — nobody else needs an account — and gets a private link to swap a player or rename the team
- You pick the date after which nobody can change their own spot
On the Club plan that link is emailed automatically. On every plan it's shown on screen the moment they sign up, and a signed-in player always finds it on their own event page.
Your players get their own place to look.
Most of the questions a commissioner answers are questions the player could answer themselves, if there were somewhere to look. There is.
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Their season, on one page
Every round they're down for, in order, with what's happening today pulled to the top. Two clubs? Both, in one list.
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Every board they're on
All their leaderboards in one place, with their own position already marked — no hunting for their name.
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A real inbox
Every message the club has sent them, kept. Nothing important lost because an email went astray — and six switches so they choose what reaches their phone.
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"I'm out this week"
One tap from their own league page. On a waiting list? They can see their exact place in line without asking anyone.
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A pat on the back
Open someone's row on the live board and tell them Nice, Great shot, or Strong. Only people playing in the event can leave one, and everyone else just sees the tally — never who left it. No comment box, so there's nothing unkind to moderate.
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A card of the round to keep
Once the event is closed, a player can download a one-page card of their own round. Theirs only — nobody can pull somebody else's.
All of it free for the golfer, on every plan — and pushing notifications to their phone stays off until they turn it on.
✦ League and Club · Leaderboard TV
Put the leaderboard on the big screen.
Open one link and drop a full-screen live leaderboard on any TV in the clubhouse. It scrolls through the whole field and every flight on its own, so there's always a new name on the board and a reason to look up. Your course logo and your sponsors ride along on the board.
- Full-screen event or league board — nothing to install, just a link
- Auto-pages through the entire field and each flight
- Updates live as scores come in
- On Club, your course logo and your sponsors ride along on the board
Example board — your course, event, and sponsors.
✦ Club plan · Sponsor spotlight
Give your sponsors the spotlight they paid for.
Sell sponsor spots and Back9Ops puts them everywhere the event already lives. Upload each logo once — it shows up automatically on screens, in print, and on the web, and stays up to date if anything changes.
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On screen
Sponsors appear on the live leaderboard and the clubhouse TV board, front and center all day long.
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On paper
Logos print on cart signs and the tee-sheet flyer — the same sponsors your players already see online.
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On the web
Your public event and registration pages carry a presenting sponsor plus a full supporting wall.
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Real value
Turn “we'll mention you” into real, all-day exposure worth paying for.
One link for your club. Bring the list you already keep.
You already have a spreadsheet of players and a page somewhere that never gets updated. Both of those are a five-minute job now.
Example club page — your logo, your colour, your photo, your words.
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A page of your own
Your logo, your colour, your photo, and a welcome in your own words. Show or hide what you like and put it in the order you want — what's on this week, your leagues, your results. One link that's always right.
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A printable flyer with a QR code
One page, your logo on it, and a QR code that takes a phone straight to the event or the league standings. Print it for the pro shop counter and the locker room.
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Bring your spreadsheet
Every row is checked and shown to you before a single thing is written. People already on your roster get matched, not duplicated. Two Bob Smiths? Combine them without losing a score — and undo it for thirty days if you were wrong.
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And take it back whenever you like
Standings, field, scores, results, payments, and contests all download as spreadsheets. Type your course name and the whole scorecard fills itself in — par, yardage, and stroke index for every hole.
✦ League and Club · QR Guest Scoring
Players score without creating an account.
Print scorecards with a unique QR code for each player or group. They scan it at the tee, enter scores on any phone — no login, no download, no friction. You see results in real time.
- Charity and fundraiser events with first-timers
- New member guest days where not everyone has an account
- Large tournaments where tech friction slows down the group
- Any event where you want scoring, not support calls
✦ For golfers · Player+
Just here to play? Bring your foursome.
You don't need to run a league to get the good stuff. Gather your group, pick a game, and Back9Ops keeps score — no math, no arguments, no spreadsheet.
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Play the classics
Wolf, Nassau, Skins, scramble, best ball — pick a game and Back9Ops runs it hole by hole for your whole group.
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No math, no arguments
Scores and standings update automatically as you play. Everyone sees who's winning in real time — bragging rights sorted, no spreadsheet required.
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Square up in a tap
When the round's done, everyone can see who owes what. Tap Venmo, Cash App, or PayPal and Back9Ops opens their app for you — or copy a Zelle handle to send it yourself. Either way, Back9Ops never touches a dime.
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Track any round, solo
Just want to log a round? Keep your scorecard on any phone and build an unofficial handicap over time.
$4.99 a month or $49.99 a year
First week free, and no card to start. Your friends join free — they never pay anything.
✦ Free · For any golfer
Free for every golfer, whether their club uses us or not.
Open it in your phone's browser at the first tee. No download, no club, no cost.
- How far to the green, from wherever you're standing
- How far you actually hit each club — worked out from your own shots, not a chart
- Rounds played, scoring average, putts, greens in regulation, and fairways hit
- A handicap that builds itself from the rounds you log — unofficial, and not a USGA Handicap Index
- A proper scorecard when you finish, birdies circled and bogeys boxed
- Picked up on a hole? Say so in one tap and the round still counts
📱 On your phone
The Back9Ops app is here — free on iPhone & Android.
Scoring, live leaderboards, your leagues, and your scorecard — right in your pocket. Prefer the browser? Everything still works there too, and guests never have to download a thing.
- Tap to score, hole by hole — it saves itself
- Live leaderboards and standings, wherever you are
- Your schedule, pairings, and results in one place
Apple and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC.
✦ Club plan · Tee sheet & online booking
And now it runs your tee sheet.
The counter's screen for today, online booking with your own green fees on it, and the events and league nights you already run closing the right times by themselves. Included with the Club plan — and it stays your call: you decide whether to switch the sheet on at all, and you can turn it off again whenever you like.
- The counter's screen for today. Book a group, move one to another time, check them in. Move a group and there's a Put it back button.
- Golfers book in three screens. No account, no booking fee, and a private link to change or cancel.
- Your green fees online — seasons, weekends, and holidays priced right, with cart, senior, junior, and resident prices that never go stale.
- It already knows your calendar. Book an event or a league night and the right tee times close themselves. If a booking is in the way you're told — nothing is ever cancelled behind your back.
- Frost delay? Push the day back and every group still to tee off is told their new time.
- The Saturday group keeps its 8:00 every week.
- Bring the bookings you already have. Day one isn't an empty sheet with a hundred golfers holding confirmations.
- No-shows counted, no card held. You decide how many it takes before someone loses online booking — and your counter can still book them by phone.
Simple, honest pricing.
Free to start. Upgrade when you're ready. No surprises — see exactly what you get on each plan.
Free
$0/forever
Get started. Zero friction.
- 1 event at a time, up to 3 a year
- Up to 20 players per event
- Stroke Play, Scramble, Best Ball, Chapman, Stableford, Wolf & Nassau
- Flights, shotgun starts & on-course contests
- Front Desk crew — no email address needed
- Public event pages & your own club page
- Live leaderboard
- Leagues & season standings
- QR guest scoring
- Automation
League
$599/year
$49.92/mo billed annually
Run your full season.
- Unlimited active events
- Unlimited players
- Live leaderboard & Leaderboard TV
- QR guest scoring & cart signs
- League standings & season history
- Subs, absences & player RSVPs
- Your league's own handicaps
- Manual pairings & tee times
- Auto pairings & tee times
- Skins, Match Play & Ryder Cup formats
Best value
Club
$1,299/year
$108.25/mo billed annually
Everything, automated.
- Everything in League
- Auto pairings & tee times
- Skins, Match Play & Ryder Cup formats
- Push notifications
- Automated & scheduled messages
- Auto-open scoring & auto-post results
- Your logo & sponsors on every screen and printout
- Sponsor wall across the event, the board & the flyer
See full feature comparison ↓
| Feature | Free | League | Club |
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| Events | 1 at a time · 3/yr | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Players per event | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Core scoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live leaderboard | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR guest scoring & cart signs | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leaderboard TV (clubhouse screen) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flights, shotgun starts & contests | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Front Desk crew (no email needed) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| League standings & history | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manual pairings | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto pairings | — | — | ✓ |
| Manual tee times | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto tee times | — | — | ✓ |
| Basic email comms | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push notifications | — | — | ✓ |
| Automated messages | — | — | ✓ |
| Segmented messaging | — | — | ✓ |
| Scoring automation | — | — | ✓ |
| Match play brackets | — | — | ✓ |
| Skins format | — | — | ✓ |
| Ryder Cup format | — | — | ✓ |
| Course branding | — | — | ✓ |
| Branded leaderboard | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-sponsor wall | — | — | ✓ |
All plans billed annually. 14-day Club trial available. Questions? sales@back9ops.com
Why we built Back9Ops
Running a league on spreadsheets, group texts, and paper scorecards is harder than it should be. So we put registration, pairings, scoring, and results in one place — and made it simple enough that anyone can run event day.
Less than a sleeve of balls per day
The Club plan is $3.56/day. League plan is $1.64/day. For unlimited events and players, that's an easy math problem.
You can take it back
Deleted the wrong team, moved the wrong player, cleared the wrong list? The same green "undo" strip appears on eight different screens, says in plain words what just happened, and offers one button to reverse it. It doesn't count down and vanish while you're reading it — it waits until you've decided.
Mobile-first where it counts
Every touch target is at least 48px. Scoring, leaderboards, and player dashboards work cleanly on any phone.
Get started today
Your next event is 2 minutes away.
Create your first event for free — no credit card, no onboarding call, no waiting. Or reach out with questions below.
Still have questions?
Use this form to reach us directly. We'll get back to you within one business day.
- Onboarding help for your first event
- Questions about formats or scoring rules
- Bulk pricing for multi-course orgs
Or email directly: sales@back9ops.com