Guides for running a better golf pool, from your first office pool to a full season with a live draft.
Connect Moving Day to Claude or ChatGPT: set up a pool by describing it, and ask where you stand, how your team is doing and who still has to pick.
Where the value sits in each round of a golf draft, why the second ranking band wins leagues, and the snake-draft mechanics to agree on before the clock starts.
Season shapes, a schedule that skips dead weeks, top-heavy points, the missed-cut rule that matters over a year, and three rules that keep a league alive.
Why a Masters pool is different (small field, 36-hole cut, course history), formats that fit one week, who to pick at Augusta, and two rules to set early.
What changes from major to major for pool picks, the one format that works for all three, and how to run a majors-only season without forty weeks of picks.
Attach a pool to a real tournament to raise money before the outing: entry splits, keeping it lawful and simple, and a format for people who skip golf on TV.
Under 15, 15 to 50, or a whole company: the format, entry and rules that fit each size, and the mistake each size makes.
The six golf pool formats people actually run, what each is good for, and the one question that picks yours: how many people, and how much do they know?
Even par, fixed strokes, best-active, field median: we ran every missed-cut rule against all 35 stroke-play PGA TOUR events of 2026. Here’s what each does.
Ties for first happen about one week in seven in a 100-entry pool. Why “lowest final round” and “split the pot” fail, and the count-back rule that always works.
One golfer a week, never the same golfer twice. The rules that matter, why it’s a budget and not a pick, and how to run it without a spreadsheet.
We adjusted every 2026 PGA TOUR round by ranking band to measure who beat expectations. The sweet spot isn’t the bottom of the field - it’s the second band.
Two side games from your Saturday foursome, made for a four-day pool: hole-by-hole skins, the round-by-round rabbit, and how to run them as an opt-in side pot.
Four ways to run a playoffs pool: a Tour Championship pick-five, a three-week mini-season, playoff one-and-done and a skin per round, plus the deadline rule.
What the golf pool spreadsheet really does for you, what it can’t do (live scores, enforced formats, tiebreakers, history), and how to judge a replacement.
Email verification, emails you can actually unsubscribe from, self-serve data export and account deletion, pool chat, player profiles and invite controls.
Pool chat, standings-card share links and easier invites: how the newest Moving Day features turn a quiet pool into the one everyone checks on Sunday.
Everything you need to set up a golf pool that runs itself: formats, scoring, drafts, seasons, and payouts, explained from scratch.