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Ditch the spreadsheet. Keep your exact format.

Configure the exact pick setup and scoring rules your group already uses. EOP handles pick collection, live scoring, and the leaderboard — whether you're building from scratch or moving off a spreadsheet you've run for years.

Custom formats

Build the exact pool your group runs

You're not locked into a preset. Set the number of tiers, players per tier, pick counts, and scoring method. If your group has run the same format for years, it maps directly — and you reuse it for every event going forward.

Custom Setups

Tiers, salaries, pick anyone, money earnings, to par scoring, daily prizes. The picksheet reflects your format exactly.

Flexible pick counts

Set how many golfers per tier and how many count toward the final score. Pick 16, Use 6. Pick 6, Use 4. Or anything in between.

Reuse for every event

Once configured, the same format is ready for the next tournament. Same tiers, same scoring rules — just new picks and a new field.

Totally custom? Enter picks manually

If your format doesn't map to a standard picksheet, collect picks your way — email, text, paper — then type them in once. EOP handles live scoring and the leaderboard from there.

How to enter picks manually

Signs it's time

When the spreadsheet stops working

A lot of golf pools start the same way: a format you like, a group of friends or coworkers, picks collected over text or email, and a spreadsheet running in the background. For a small group, it works fine.

But pools grow. And once yours does, manually tracking scores during a live tournament stops being a minor task and starts being a weekend job.

Chasing down picks

Collecting entries over text and email, following up with the people who haven't submitted, manually entering everything — it's admin work before the pool even starts.

Manually updating scores

Refreshing the leaderboard, pulling scores round by round, recalculating standings — on a weekend, for a pool you're supposed to be enjoying.

"Where do I stand?" texts

When participants can't see a live leaderboard, they text you. Every few hours. All weekend. That's all fixed the moment you share a link.

What changes

Same format. Everything else handled for you.

You keep the pool format you've refined over years — tiers, pick counts, scoring rules, whatever you've built. EOP handles everything that used to cost you time: collecting picks, scoring each round, maintaining standings, and giving players a live leaderboard to check on their own.

Invite link replaces email chains

Players enter their picks through a form — no reply-all threads, no manual compilation. Picks come in organized and ready to go.

Automatic scoring

Live scores are pulled in throughout the tournament. Standings update automatically. You don't touch a number all week.

Live leaderboard for everyone

Participants check the leaderboard themselves. The group chat still lights up — but now you're watching the tournament, not answering questions about it.

Reuse your format every event

Once your format is built, running the next tournament takes minutes. Same tiers, same scoring rules — just new picks for a new event.

Real example

From 9 players in a spreadsheet to 25 across two pools

Bob has run a custom 8-tier golf pool for every major, The Players Championship, and Olympic Golf since 2018 — starting with 9 players in a spreadsheet, now 25 across two pools.

Pool Size

25 players

Pools Active

2 separate pools

Events per Year

6 (since 2018)

Format

Pick 16, Use 6 · 8 Tiers · To Par

Bob — Pool Commissioner, since 2018

“So easy to use. Been using for 4–5 tournaments a year with average 25 participants. Went from manual with only 9. Would be impossible to track at this stage. Now run two separate pools.”

They made the switch. Here's what they said.

From a recent Masters pool feedback survey — pool commissioners who run their own groups, year after year.

Pool Commissioner — Annual Masters Pool

“Before I started using EOP, I would keep up with everything by hand. It was a tedious process to keep up with if I had a lot of people in my pool. EOP takes all the hard work out of it for me.”

Pool Commissioner — 650-Entry Masters Pool

“I run one pool per year, only for the Masters, but it has steadily grown each year and this year had 650 entries. The ease of use, live scoring, and other features are why I keep returning.”

Pool Commissioner — All 4 Majors + The Players

“Run one for every PGA major plus The Players Championship. Had over 250 entries for the Masters. Participants have had no complaints.”

Pool Commissioner — Masters Pool

“The ‘mark as paid’ function is a small but tremendous add. It saves me a lot of time bouncing between Venmo, a spreadsheet, and EOP.”

Ditch the spreadsheet. Keep your exact format.

Build the exact pool your group runs

When the spreadsheet stops working

Same format. Everything else handled for you.

From 9 players in a spreadsheet to 25 across two pools

They made the switch. Here's what they said.

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