FAQs

A pairing book for the inner circle. We sort the groups and the booking. You sort the excuses — and the side game. Each club on the site has its own login, roster, and admins.

Pick your club on the home page and sign in with your membership number. Your club admin will give you the initial password. You can change it anytime once you are in.

Ask a club admin. They add players to that club’s roster. Fairway Circle is not a public golf-club booking site — it is for the circles that run on it.

Yes. Booking the golf is our job. Admins turn auto booking on; it runs in the background and follows that club’s timesheet process — Join Draw where the club runs a lottery, or first to the sheet where it doesn’t — and books the fours on Comp tees. Until that is done, groups show Tee TBA. After each run we read the club Comp sheet and check the names are actually on it.

No. Auto booking is optional. Fairway Circle can simply sort the playing partners — who is in which group — and you book the time slots with your club yourself. Groups show Tee TBA until a time is on the card.

After Book Group we read the club Comp sheet and check each group’s names are actually on it. Auto booking only takes Comp tees. If that day’s Comp closed before the start time we take — like Comp ending at 10:58 am with an 11:00 am start — there is nothing left to book. Social times are never taken. Move the start time back into Comp, or book that day by hand.

Each club has its own window.

A lottery is a club’s own draw for timesheet access — usually a Join Draw in the minutes before the sheet unlocks. Members who join are given a random number; the lowest numbers book first. Clubs that do not run a lottery simply open the sheet first-come. Fairway Circle does not intervene in any club’s booking protocol. We stand in line for you — same window, same rules, same odds. No one is jumped, and no one is cheated out of their spot.

Yes. On the roster an admin can link two, three, or four players. They share a group whenever every one of them is In. If one is Out, the link does not apply that day and the others go back into the normal mix. Rebuild all cards after you save a link so dates already drawn pick it up.

Each club sets its own playing days — any mix from Sunday through Saturday. Redland Bay, the original circle, plays Wednesday and Saturday. Admins must pick those days when a new club joins, and can change them later from Auto booking. Every club can also add a named special day on a date that is not a regular play day, with its own Comp times if the day does not match the usual play-day window. If that timesheet is already open, an admin can Book now after the groups are allocated. If it is not open yet, the usual auto booking rules stay in place.

No. Fairway Circle is just here to help with the distribution of playing groups. Some admins select a mix so carts can be shared if they are available. The choice is always yours.

Yes. The Circle thread is your own club. Direct messages and groups can reach anyone on Fairway Circle — search by name or club from Messages. Chat is kept for 14 days, then cleared.

Optional games off the round — a bit of fun, or extra bets if you want them. They sit alongside the pairing book and do not change who is in your group. Play them or leave them.

No. All bets are settled between the players. Fairway Circle does not hold the stake.

The circle signs you out after 10 minutes idle. Sign in again from the home page.

No. Fairway Circle is the pairing book for the circles that use it. Tee times are booked through the club’s own system. For clubhouse, membership, or course questions, go to the golf club.