Side games, skins and prizes

What side games are

Side games run alongside the league — Skins, Closest to the Pin and Longest Putt. Pick them in the league wizard, or add one any time with Add a game on the Side Games tab. Each game runs on every week, and golfers enter it separately from the league entry fee.

The Side Games tab has four parts: Setup, Entries, Results and Weekly Recap. The venue keeps the pot and pays its own winners.

Set up skins

Where Leagues your league Side Games Setup

1. Open Side Games and stay on Setup. A red box, Some sessions are not ready to run these games, lists what’s missing — usually No entry fee has been set.
2. On the left, click the game (for example Skins). Its Rules and Money boxes hold the league-wide settings. You can change them until the season starts; after that they’re locked.
3. Set the money (see the table). For a free game, tick Free beside the fee — a free game shows its winners and no pot.
4. Under Weeks, click a week that hasn’t started to change just that week (Fee this week ($), More settings for this week), then Save this week. Weeks that have started are grayed out.
5. The red box gets shorter as each week becomes ready, and the red number on the tab disappears when every week is ready.

Skins are played on every hole, so there’s no hole to choose. Closest to the Pin and Longest Putt need the week’s course set first so a hole can be picked, and can pay per hole or one winner for the whole night.

Split skins into flights

Where Side Games Setup the game Who shares the pot

A skins game can have its own flights, golfer by golfer — so teammates can play in different pots — without touching the league’s divisions or team flights.

1. Set Who shares the pot to One pot per flight, then Split on to This game’s own flights. (If the league has team flights, you can choose The league’s team flights instead.)
2. Under Flights, click Add a flight for each pot and name them. Save flights.
3. Choose how golfers are placed with Place golfers:
   • By handicap range, checked every week — give each flight a Lowest and Highest handicap (type a plus handicap as +2). Every week, each golfer plays in the flight whose range holds their handicap that week. The lowest flight also takes any plus handicap below its range.
   • I place golfers (one by one, or evenly by handicap) — move golfers yourself, or click Place everyone by handicap to split them evenly, lowest first. A preview shows who moves before anything changes.
4. Each opted-in golfer is listed under their flight, with why they’re there (for example By handicap, Moved by hand, No handicap). Use the drop-down beside a golfer to move them for the rest of the season, or Week by week to move them for one week only.

Enter golfers into a side game

Where Side Games Entries

• Pick the week with the buttons at the top, or search for a golfer or team.
• Filter the list with All, Already in, Not yet in or Missing payment, and change the Order by drop-down.
• Select golfers, or a whole team, then Register golfers. Choose Which games and Which weeks (This week, Every remaining week or Choose weeks), and tick Mark all as paid if you took the money at the counter. A season fee is charged once per golfer; golfers who already paid add nothing.
• Owes shows what a golfer still owes. On a head-to-head league, each pair is shown as one team.
• Golfers can also join side games themselves in the Fareway app.

You can also add a golfer from Prizes → Who is in with Add a golfer. A golfer whose team was canceled shows as Canceled; take them out or refund them by hand.

Results and the weekly recap

• Results shows the week’s leaderboard, each pot, what needs your attention that night, and who is in. A pot still waiting says whose card it’s waiting on.
• On head-to-head and match-play weeks, skins settle only once every scorecard is validated — use Validate all scorecards on the week’s menu (see Scores).
• Weekly Recap summarizes a week: league prizes, each side game’s result, and who played. Download saves it as a CSV file; Share with league posts it for your golfers.

Calculate and record prizes

Where Leagues your league Prizes

1. Use the Session drop-down to pick a week.
2. Click Calculate Prizes to generate draft prize results, or Add Prize to add one by hand. Then review and approve them (Approve All approves every draft).
3. For skins, the Skins box tracks the Pot and the Per Skin value; a season-fee game also shows its weekly pot amount.
4. Under Who is in — Skins, use Add a golfer to enter someone.