Post scores to GHIN

Once a round is completed, RELM Golf can post each player’s score to their record with the USGA (GHIN), so you don’t have to type them in again. Only players with a GHIN number linked in the Member Bank can be posted (Add your members).

Before you start: complete the round, and make sure your league has USGA GHIN turned on in Organization → Integrations (Set up your league).

Post a round’s scores

1. Open the round and go to its Post to USGA tab. Every player is listed with their GHIN number, tee, holes played and gross score:

   • Ready players are ticked to be posted. Untick anyone you don’t want to post.
   • Skipped players can’t be posted, and the reason is shown: no GHIN number, no scorecard, not enough holes played, or they played alone.

   Select Post scores to USGA.

   

2. Choose the Score type (Home, Away or Tournament) and select Post scores. The tab then shows each player’s result as it comes back from the USGA, and Print report gives you a copy.

   

Caution

Posted scores can’t be changed or deleted from RELM Golf. If a posted score is wrong, the player’s club corrects it in GHIN. Check the round’s scores before you post.

Note

If the USGA doesn’t answer clearly (a time-out, for example), the score is marked unverified rather than sent again, so it can never be posted twice. Check those in GHIN first; the dialog then offers to Also send the unverified scores that didn’t arrive.

Golfer consent

The USGA asks for each golfer’s own consent before a league uses their full handicap record. You request it in RELM Golf, and the USGA emails the golfer to approve it. A golfer is only ever asked once.

1. Open the member in the Member Bank and go to the GHIN info tab. The USGA data consent card shows where their consent stands. Select Request consent to have the USGA email them, and Check status later to see whether they’ve answered.

   

Tip

To ask everyone at once, open Actions on the Member Bank and choose Request USGA consent. Waiting for consent doesn’t hold anything up: handicaps, flights, scoring and posting all work in the meantime.