Tournament news 18-12-2020

New update to GolfBox Tournament

We are now ready with a new update to GolfBox Tournament. Below you can see what this update contains.

New things

Setup

• Customers in WHS countries can now set an Additional Handicap Allowance for men and women, respectively.
• The system now supports PHCP calculation with a formula without Course Rating and Par. This is used in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
• For customers in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the system will now suggest 95% Stroke Allowance on rounds as it should live up to their recommendations.

Settings

• A new integration has been added to Scotland. However, due to a limitation in the Scottish system, this can only be used by customers from Scotland.

Fixed things

Setup

• The possibility of using Handicap Status as a parameter in setup of classes has been removed for Swedish customers, as this is no longer used.
• Calculation of PHCP in WHS countries will now no longer round to the nearest whole number before Stroke Allowance is taken into account, only afterwards. In order not to affect results in rounds already played, this change only applies to rounds played from 01/01/2021 and onwards.
• A new handling of the approval required from the club when adding courses from England, Ireland and Wales has been introduced. Customers in these countries can now, when setting up a competition, select a club to have a request sent immediately, or can use a new section on the Setup page to send a request to the club.
• Some changes have been made to the handling of courses retrieved from England, Ireland and Wales. Among other things, tees are now grouped by color whenever possible, and the system assumes from the start these courses have different par and index values ​​across tees.

Entries

• Players in WHS countries are now generally considered "Handicap Status: Active" if the player's handicap is 54 or lower. This should counteract a challenge where players did not meet the requirement for Handicap Status in countries where it was no longer possible to change the player's Handicap Status, e.g., in Sweden, and therefore could not register for competitions with these requirements. Some countries continue to have their own handling of Handicap Status.
• An error has been fixed in the email Swedish players receive when deleting, where it would sometimes show the name of who registered the player instead of the name of who deleted the player.

If you have any questions about the content of this update, remember that you can contact us at [e-mail]. We are standing by to assist you. We would also like to remind you of our guides to different parts of the system. You’ll find the guides here - https://golfbox.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/200150358-GolfBox-Tournament.

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