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User Specified Start Time / Tee Assignments

Once you have a final grouped Player List you have the option to assign Start Times and/or Tee Numbers to each Player Group.  These assignments are made initially via a Create choice from the Start Time/Tee Assignments submenu of the Preparation Menu.  Two Create methods are available -- Automatic and User Specified.  Once you have made initial assignments they can be modified by the Update choice from the submenu.  At the end of each Create or Update session you are presented with an option to display and print a Player List Report that includes the assignments.  There is also a separate submenu choice for just displaying and printing existing assignments.  The same screen is used for creating User Specified assignments and for updating assignments created by either the Automatic or User Specified method.



When you Create Start Time/Tee assignments via the User Specified method you are first presented with the above window. It allows you to choose the nature of the Start Time assignments and whether or not you wish to do Cart Assignments.  The Single Time option is useful for Shotgun Starts -- the program automatically inserts your specified time for all player groups and skips over the TIME field as you enter information; you can simply enter Tee Numbers.   If you wish to use Cart Assignments, click the Use Cart Assignments checkbox to show a check mark; otherwise the CART fields will be skipped over as you enter information. 



Although it is not as fast and convenient as the Automatic method, the User Specified method of creating Start Time/Tee Assignments is the more flexible method.  You are presented a screen with a list of the names of the first player in each of your Player Groups and you simply fill in the desired TIME and TEE for each group.  If your Player List has more than 15 groups Previous and Next buttons are activated for navigation among screens.

Important: Your entry of TIME information must be in the format HHMMA or HHMMP, where A is for AM and P is for PM.  The entry for Hours (HH) must be from 00 to 12; the entry for Minutes (MM) must be from 00 to 59.  Leading zeros must be used for for single-digit hours and minutes.  Examples: 0800A for 8 AM, 1008A for 10:08 AM, 0140P for 1:40 PM.

Note that you can use suffixes in your TEE Numbers (e.g. 1A, 1B, etc.), a feature that is not available with Automatic assignments.  

The use of CART assignments is optional and is available only with the User Specified create method.  Note that you can add Cart Assignments to Start Times/Tees prepared by the Automatic create method by updating the assignments.  Entries in the CART text boxes are limited to three characters.  The number of entry text boxes presented for cart assignments varies by the size of your Player Groups and assumes two players per cart.  For example, one box is presented for twosomes, two boxes for threesomes and foursomes, and three boxes for fivesomes and sixsomes.  The above illustration is for foursomes.  Carts are assigned in the order in which players appear in a Player Group.

As with the Automatic method, when you click the Save button you are presented with an option to display and print a Player List Report that includes your assignments.

Start Time / Tee Assignment Updates
Once you have created assignments you can update them at any time via the Update Existing Assignments choice on the Start Time/Tee Assignments submenu of the Preparation Menu.  The same screen used for User Specified Assignments is presented with the existing assignment information filled in and you may proceed to make changes as you wish.  Use of the screen is the same as described above.

Related Topics:
Automatic Start Time / Tee Assignments