Build a golf tournament roster

1. What goes in a roster

Most rosters carry far more columns than anyone actually uses. The minimal set: player name, team name (for team events), flight or handicap (if you flight your field), and a contact for each player. Skip the clutter — you can collect shirt sizes and dietary notes later. The roster's two jobs: who's playing, and who they're playing with.

2. Individual vs. team rosters

Individual events are a flat list of names. Team events behave a little differently: teams are listed line by line, with each member added directly under their team, so a scramble's foursomes or a two-person outing's pairs read naturally — see how that works in a scramble. One thing to know up front: in a team event, every member is a player, and each bills at the same rate as anyone else (more below). If your event is a golf outing roster for a corporate group, the same structure keeps it tidy — our corporate outing planning guide has the organizer's view.

3. A roster template you can copy

Copy this into a spreadsheet and you're 90 percent there:

Player,Team,Flight
Alex Rivera,Team 1,A
Sam Chen,Team 1,A
Jordan Lee,Team 2,B
Morgan Diaz,Team 2,B

For individual events, drop the Team column. The Flight column is for events that group players by ability — leave it blank if everyone plays one division. That's the whole template: three columns, no more.

4. Importing instead of typing

If your names already live in a signup sheet or an email chain, don't retype them. Chase Birdies' roster import takes a CSV — paste it or upload it, see a preview, then apply in one step. The importer reads player and team columns, creates teams automatically, and skips and flags any row that's missing a team, so nothing quietly falls through the cracks. Merge imports into the same roster as you collect stragglers, and the player count — and the bill — updates as you go. The roster lives in the scoring setup, right where the rest of the event comes together.

5. Roster → payment → leaderboard

Here's where the count matters: the number of players on the roster at payment IS the bill — a flat $1 per player on the pricing page. No declared player count to guess, no minimums, no per-team pricing. Add a fourth to a scramble after publishing, and an add-more-players checkout tops up at $1 per slot. When the round starts, the same roster becomes the leaderboard field, so the names you entered are the names everyone watches. The full day, from roster to awards, is in our guide to running a golf tournament.