Tournaments
Run the whole tournament from one screen.
Up to 144 players and 36 groups, shotgun or tee times, flights, a printable join sheet, and one live leaderboard on every phone and the clubhouse TV.
Who does what
The course runs it. Everyone else just plays.
Clear roles, so nobody can change the rules halfway through the round.
The course creates the event
Set it up in Admin. The creator owns the rules: format, flights, handicaps and starts.
Golfers only enter scores
Each group scores on one phone from its QR code. No account, nothing to set up.
Followers only watch
Family and members follow live scores and odds from a link. Never money.
Every setting
Set up a full field in minutes.
Paste a list or upload a CSV, and Jovial builds the groups, starts and flights.
Up to 144 players, 36 groups.
Paste from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV with name, handicap and flight. Jovial builds groups of 2, 3, 4 or 5 and tracks every one live.
- Live status per cart: Thru 12, Finished, Not started
- Search any group or player
- Handicaps on or off
Carts and starts
Shotgun or tee times.
Send the field off from holes 1 to 18 at once, or set tee times. Split flights by handicap into A, B and C.
- Shotgun from every hole, with A and B groups
- Tee times for a rolling start
- Flights by handicap (A, B, C)
A printable QR join sheet.
One code per cart. Scan it and your players are already on the card. No account.
- Print it or show it at the first tee
- Starting hole printed on every code
- See which groups have joined
Scoring modes
Score it the way your event needs.
From a casual scramble to a club championship with attested cards.
One scorer
One phone per group keeps score for everyone.
- Scan the cart’s QR code
- Enter scores hole by hole
- Scores post to the leaderboard live
Player and marker
Every player keeps their own score and a marker keeps it too, like the PGA Tour.
- Player and marker both enter scores
- Jovial flags any mismatch, hole by hole
- Both sign the card to make it official
Staff entry
Staff enter scores from the official paper cards after the round.
- Collect cards at the scorer’s table
- Enter by group from Admin
- Post the final leaderboard
On the day
One live leaderboard, everywhere.
The same live results on the organizer screen, every phone and the clubhouse TV.
One live board, phone to TV.
Gross, net or Stableford. Put the same board on the clubhouse TV.
Scores and odds, never money.
Followers get a view-only link with live scores and the odds to win. They never see money and can’t change scores.
Live payouts for players.
Players see their games and payouts so far, then settle up with Pay. No money moves through Jovial.
In Admin
Build it once in Admin.
Create the event, set the rules, and watch every group from the counter.
Shotgun or tee times.
Pick the start and first tee, order by list, flight or handicap, and pair the field in one tap.
Enter scores from the cards.
Staff key in each cart’s card hole by hole, with totals and to par as they type.
Odds for every match.
Live odds to win each match, front, back and press, based on holes left.
Follow, TV and join links.
A QR code and link for followers, the clubhouse TV and scorers, ready to copy.
Print a sign for every cart.
One code per cart. Each sign has the starting hole and cart letter, two players and a QR code to score.
Get started
Bring your next event onto Jovial.
Golfers always free. Just download and open. No account.