Breaking the mould for big club events and golf leagues
With innovation at the heart of its ambition to create great member and golfer experiences, Hastings Golf Club took the decision to adopt Golf Genius for the running of its major events schedule. This included its club championships, knockouts, twilight golf leagues and various corporate golf days.
Admin Score Entry & Results
Enter and adjust player and team hole-byhole scores and verify final results instantly.
Live Mobile Scoring
Feeding instant hole-by-hole scores and results from every group and player.
Club Champs & Major Events
Hastings provide golfers with a tour-level experience for major club fixtures, as well as its twilight golf leagues and corporate golf days.
Support
Dedicated in-person and virtual support ensures a response to any question or query within 5-minutes.
Customised Reports
Print customisable reports such as draws, knockout results, fixture lists and scorecards for individual competitions.
Hastings masters its major events schedule
Golf Genius provided Head Professional, Brett Allan, and the Hastings Golf Club team with a full set of Tournament Management capabilities to create the experience it desired. Online golfer registration, live scoring, TV leaderboards, multi-layer competitions, golfer emails and texts, and league websites each helped to strengthen player engagement and enjoyment at the club’s major golf events. WHAT WE DID
Sponsor branding across a range of print and digital assets, such as mobile scoring, results sheets and scorecards.
Events
Club Major Events
4.4K
Twilight Golf League
Rounds of Golf
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The club wants to push the boundaries, do new things and create more opportunities for our members and visitors. That’s why we’ve invested in Golf Genius – it takes us past simple stableford comps and creates new possibilities.
Brett Allan Head Professional
QUESTION AND ANSWER
The new norm for club champs, knockouts and golf leagues.
1. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE GOLF GENIUS AND WHAT ARE YOU USING IT FOR?
After playing in a number of PGANZ events where Golf Genius was used, I wanted to take it back to the Golf Club to improve what we do. We knew our events achieved great visibility and revenue for the club, so we were looking to deliver a better experience for the golfers playing in them. That’s when we approached Craig Palmer and the team at Golf Genius.
So far, we’ve used Golf Genius to run our Club Championship, Knockouts, a Pro-Am competition with the PGA of New Zealand, a Jones Fourball and a few other corporate golf events. Those major events are where Golf Genius really comes into its own, allowing us to take each of them to the next level when our golfers would expect it most.
2. HOW HAS IT IMPROVED THE EXPERIENCE FOR YOU AND THE GOLFERS?
The experience Golf Genius creates is better for everyone. The app is simple to use and provides visibility to golfers on how they’re getting on against the field via the live leaderboard on their phones and tablets. If you wanted to, you could actually hide the scores after 15 holes, which we do because it creates excitement and keeps everybody interested. As the organiser, the system massively helps me to do my job much more easily too. The fact that I can push one button and scoring is complete is game changing. The last card can come in and within three minutes, we’re upstairs announcing the results.
3. HOW HAVE YOU APPROACHED ITS IMPLEMENTATION AT THE CLUB?
We’re in the early stages of our journey with Golf Genius, as we learn the system and onboard all the members onto it. The biggest mistake people can make with new systems is to not immerse themselves in learning it fully. By pushing it as hard as you can, you learn the system’s potential and capabilities, which is what we are doing right now, with help and support from Craig and the team at Golf Genius.
The next project is our summer Twilight Golf League. This has 24 teams playing matchplay every Wednesday night throughout the summer. There’s so many things that can go wrong with that league so we’ve decided to power it through Golf Genius to ensure smooth delivery and a better experience. This coming season will be full noise – online registration, divisions, layers formats, leagues, trips, new competitions – all of it.
Live mobile scoring and leaderboards