Two kinds of thing end up here. Guides are the practical stuff an organiser has to work out anyway — formats, handicaps, season points, the shape of a comp day. Notes are the opinions, which you are free to disagree with.
Release notes and the reasoning behind bigger product changes will join them as the build settles.
The golf is the excuse. Worth knowing what the actual product is, especially if you are the one running it.
What a club quietly loses when it stops writing things down, and why there is a window on getting it back.
No-shows are a money problem before they are a manners problem. Fix the structure before you write a fine.
Nobody signs up for that job. Everybody who runs a club ends up doing it, and it is what burns them out.
Every social golf club loses its records the same way, and never by deciding to.
What the organiser is actually doing on a comp day, and when. The golf is the easy part.
Most club ladders are decided by June or won by whoever turned up most. Here is how to avoid both.
You cannot issue an official handicap. You can still run a comp that is fair, and be honest about the difference.
Two points for a net par, and everything else is a detail. What the format actually does, and the one thing clubs get wrong.
Most of what people agonise over at the start does not matter. These six things do.