February 2021 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER 11
Charbonneau Men ’ s Club
By DON MASON
An overview of the Golf Genius software
Men ’ s Club Board member and Membership Chair Bill Moir provided the following information for this article . Bill has done
MASON considerable training of volunteers for all three of the Charbonneau golf clubs and has become our resident expert on this scoring program . Thank you , Bill !
The Charbonneau Golf Club has been using the Golf Genius software for more than three years . Head Pro Chris Bensel uses the program to set up special events for the membership and the Men ’ s Club ( CMC ), Charbonneau Women ’ s Golf Association ( CWGA ) and the Niners . Each organization has their own “ league ” to better optimize the use of the software and to ensure that use by one of the clubs does not interfere with the use of another .
Bill also chairs the Men ’ s Club Scoring Committee and we have attempted to expand the use of the Golf Genius software over the past two years . The software has extensive capabilities and to date , we have only used a few of its attributes .
� The Men ’ s Club Scoring Committee is currently comprised of Bruce Stone , Tom Taylor , Mike Brown , Joe Fieweger , Glen Ferguson , Bill Stout and Bill Moir
� The scoring committee manually enters the pairings for the Wednesday and Saturday CMC games , and the software has the capability to automate the pairing process , but it is currently only used when we play mixed team games .
� Score cards are formulated by the scoring committee at 2 p . m . the day before a CMC game . Lindy Anderson prints the score cards in the Pro-Shop the morning of play .
� To pop the score cards properly , the scoring committee must update member handicaps from GHIN the night before the game as the World Handicap System updates daily , but it does not automatically update the handicaps in our league rosters .
� When play is complete , the scoring committee enters the hole-by-hole scores for each player and our goal is to publish the results to the Pro-Shop bulletin board by 3 p . m . the day of play and later that afternoon publish the results on the CMC website .
� Hole-by-hole scoring is completed for all Men ’ s Club games because the outcome of a contest often depends on the gross or net score for each hole played .
� Additionally , hole-by-hole scoring is encouraged for all our members when they post their own scores because the statistics for all players posting their scores at Charbonneau are used to determine the handicap rating of each hole on the course .
The software has the capability to send an invitation to each of our members for each game to be played , and there are plans to try and use this feature more frequently in our 2021 golf season .
� In the invitation , a player can click “ playing ,” “ not playing ,” or ignore the invitation .
� Those that click playing will be automatically entered into the Round Roster for that game .
� For four-man team games , the software can then be used to automatically pair the teams ABCD to maximize the fairness of the contest .
� When pairing has been completed , either manually or automatically , the software can be used to send a tee sheet to each participant that has clicked “ playing ” showing all the pairings for the game and the tee time for each team .
Spencer Groshong has used the software as described above to invite and pair his teams for Monday , Wednesday and Friday play the last few weeks of the 2020 season . He does not pop and print scorecards , but he is using the roster building feature of the invite , the automatic pairing feature , and he sends the tee sheet for the game the night be-
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