Thinking about starting a tournament website

[emtrylen]

Ideas

Hello everyone… I am looking at starting a regional tournament website in the Pacific Northwest specifically Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Currently one does not exist and our only method for knowing dates of tournaments is by a sheet of paper that can be picked up at a local course. The website would also feature a forum for local players to discuss the events. I am trying to find some templates or at least some ideas of what this should look like. Anyone have any suggestions. Also I am talking about all the tournaments in the area not just the local amateur’s.

[DemolitionMan]

You could spend $hundreds or $thousands, it's up to just how many bells/whistles you want on your site and how pretty it will look.

 

You could post an ad on craigslist and find a competent html programmer to do this pretty cheap. Your downside is you will be hiring a kid who's reliability may not be what you expect.

 

I am not joking when I tell you quite awhile ago I hired a very talented web programmer just out of high school. When he worked, it was great, but give a kid $1000 and you don't see him for a week or two. However, I solved that problem quite easily when I paid his girlfriend to dump him. After that I got 50 hrs/wk out of him.

 

Check out http://www.invisionboard.com/ for some background on the software that runs this board. With some further Google searches you will get more than enough information.

 

While you are looking for the programmer, storyboard what you want your site to look like.

 

You could also go the route of piggybacking off someone else's work.

 

Google "golf tournament web software" and you will find a variety of solutions/prices.

[oregongolf]

Hello everyone… I am looking at starting a regional tournament website in the Pacific Northwest specifically Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Currently one does not exist and our only method for knowing dates of tournaments is by a sheet of paper that can be picked up at a local course. The website would also feature a forum for local players to discuss the events. I am trying to find some templates or at least some ideas of what this should look like. Anyone have any suggestions. Also I am talking about all the tournaments in the area not just the local amateur’s.

So something like the golf galaxy city golf tours?

 

You have a pretty big area you'd like to cover, it seems like lots of players would need to travel.

 

Maybe you'd play the majority of your tournaments in the Spokane area or something, I don't know.

[JSmith083092]

Look, I can get you a forum started for free within 10 minuets of now. Only thing will be it won't have a domain like www.google.com but more like www.google.proboards.com. Obviously that is an example but all this is probably info you already know.

[Gxgolfer]

amateurgolf.com is one of the largest sites for tournaments. I'm sure they cover your area as well. Its a tough market.