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Golf league dues and prize fund calculator
Set your roster, dues and payout split and see exactly what lands in the weekly pot and what is left for September.
Weekly dues do two jobs at once. Part of the money goes back out the same night as flight prizes, and part of it stacks up for the year end payout, the trophies and whatever your league does after the last round. Leagues get into trouble when nobody decides the split in March and the pot ends up larger than the money coming in.
This calculator does that split for you. Enter the roster size, the weekly dues, the season length, the share you want going to prizes and the number of flights you pay out. It shows the weekly pot, the money each flight has to work with, the season total and the reserve you will have on hand for the closing night.
Your result
Season dues collected
$15,360
What the league takes in if every golfer pays for every week of the season.
Weekly prize pot
$461
Money available for flight prizes on a normal league night.
Prize money per flight
$115.20
What each flight has to split between its weekly winners.
Reserve for the year end payout
$6,144
What is left for the playoff purse, trophies and the closing night.
These figures assume full collection, so shade the reserve down if your league carries unpaid weeks.
Picking a payout share your league can live with
A high weekly share feels generous in May and thin in September, because there is nothing left for the playoff. A low share builds a healthy closing purse but makes the weekly skins feel pointless. Most leagues land somewhere in the middle and then hold that line all season rather than adjusting week to week.
Whatever you pick, put it on the rules sheet as a number and post the running reserve on the standings page. Golfers rarely object to the split itself. They object to finding out in August that the pot moved and nobody told them.
Cash, pro shop credit and the paperwork line
How you pay matters as much as how much. Pro shop credit keeps the money inside the course, avoids handling cash at the counter and sits more comfortably with amateur status questions than a stack of twenties in an envelope. Cash pots and skins games carry rules that vary by state, and larger payouts can create reporting obligations for whoever writes the check.
Decide the payment form before week one, write it on the rules sheet, and tell your head professional what the season total looks like. The number this calculator gives you for the year end reserve is exactly the figure that conversation needs.
Questions about this calculator
Should the green fee be part of weekly dues?
Usually not. Keeping the league fee separate from the course green fee makes the prize fund easier to explain and easier to audit. It also means a rate change from the course does not force you to redo the payout split mid season.
What percentage do most municipal leagues send back out weekly?
It varies widely by league and there is no standard. What matters is that the share is decided before week one, written down, and held for the whole season. Run two or three scenarios here and take the printout to your spring meeting.
How do we handle golfers who pay late?
Assume less than full collection when you plan the reserve. Many leagues collect the season total up front or require dues before a golfer appears in the standings, which removes the problem entirely. If you allow weekly payment, track it in the same place as the scores.
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The league night run sheet, from cart staging to posted standings
One page that walks the counter through league night in order, so the same thing happens every week no matter who is working.
Now make that number survive twenty weeks
You have the figure, and keeping it true all season means every card, every sub who took an open spot at 5:10 and every drop week landing in the same place. BackNineLive does that arithmetic on league night and publishes flight standings before the last group loads clubs into the trunk. Ask for a demo and bring the numbers you just ran.