Most clubs don't switch away from spreadsheets because they want to, they switch because a committee member finally asks "what happens if the one person who understands this file is on holiday?" The good news is that moving a whole membership onto a proper handicap platform is far less disruptive than it sounds, and it usually fits into a single afternoon.
Preparing Your Player List
Start with a clean export of your membership: name, email, current handicap, and the group or category they play in. You don't need to restructure anything, most spreadsheets export straight to CSV with no changes required. The import tool matches columns automatically and flags anything it can't confidently map, so you fix a handful of rows instead of retyping the whole list.
Choosing CONGU or WHS Per Group
A club doesn't have to run one system for everyone. Seniors' sections, ladies' sections and open competitions can each run under whichever method suits them, CONGU's category-based buffers or WHS's score differentials, without any of them affecting the others. You set the method once per group when you create it, and every calculation from that point on follows the rules for that method automatically.
Importing Historical Scores
Nobody wants to lose a season of history in a migration. Historical rounds import alongside current handicaps so a player's trend line doesn't reset to zero the day you go live, and the platform replays the differentials so nothing needs to be recalculated by hand.
Going Live Without Losing a Round
Once your groups and players are in, a public leaderboard link is available immediately, no account required for members to check their own standing. Because the import preserves every historical round, there's no gap in the record between "the old spreadsheet" and "the new system", it's simply a continuation.
Ready to see how your own membership list would import? Explore the import tools or book a quick demo and we'll walk through your data with you.
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