Flights and handicaps

Flights and handicaps without the spreadsheet.

Keep the handicaps your club or golf association gives your golfers, and let the software sort flights, tees and net scores from them each week.

By the Golf League Software team · Updated November 12, 2026

Flights

By handicap rank: a set number of golfers per flight, for example 30 in A, the next 30 in B, with the last flight taking the rest.
Equal flights: split the field into equal groups by handicap.
By hand: pin any golfer to a flight, or use the flights your club already assigns.
One field: no flights at all.

Each flight can play its own tee (A and B off the blues, C and D off the whites), with a fallback tee for anyone without a flight and per-golfer tee overrides.

Handicaps

Club handicaps first. Enter each golfer’s handicap from your club or association, and update it whenever you like: every change is kept in the golfer’s handicap history.
9 or 18 holes. Tell it whether your handicaps are 18-hole numbers (half the strokes on a nine) or nine-hole numbers.
Allowance. Use full handicaps or a percentage, such as 90%.
A league estimate. From each golfer’s recent league rounds the app shows an estimate alongside their handicap. Leagues without club handicaps can apply it; a club handicap is only replaced when the admin chooses that.

The league estimate is not an official handicap. It isn’t a Handicap Index, and it isn’t calculated under the World Handicap System; it’s a league’s working number, and we always call it that. Read more in golf league handicaps.

Questions

Do flights change during the season?

Flights by rank follow the handicaps on each night, so a golfer can move flights when their handicap moves. A golfer pinned to a flight by hand stays there. Each round keeps the flight it was played in.

Can we use our club’s official handicaps?

Yes, and that is the default. The league estimate is only applied where an admin chooses it.