Members trust a link they recognise
A link to scoring.yourclub.co.za dropped into a WhatsApp group gets opened. An unfamiliar domain in the same group gets asked about first, and some members never click it at all.
Results on your own address
Results served from your club's own address rather than a supplier's. One DNS record, and the certificate looks after itself from there.
What this page is describing.
A custom domain is delivered under the Club Platform implementation package, configured per club after your DNS is pointed at us. It is not a setting inside a standard account. Publishing and sharing results works today on the standard address — see leaderboards and results.
The three steps
What actually has to happen
Your IT provider does one thing. We do the rest.
scoring.rooiberggolf.co.zaPick the subdomain your members will see. Most clubs use scoring, results or comps.
Club result routes are set not to be indexed, so putting results on your own domain does not put your members into search results.
Step through it. The club and the record shown are invented.
Why bother
What the address is actually doing
It is not vanity. Three of these are practical.
It survives us
If you ever move to something else, the address your members have bookmarked is yours, and it can point somewhere else. That is a genuine reason to prefer it, and it is not in our interest to pretend otherwise.
The club website can link straight in
Results become a section of your own site rather than an offsite link that looks like it leads somewhere else.
Sponsors see the club, not the supplier
A sponsor paying for visibility on your results is buying space on your club's property, which is an easier conversation.
What we do not do with it
Your domain does not become an SEO surface
This is worth being explicit about, because it is a common and damaging pattern.
Result routes are noindex
Putting results on your own domain does not put your members into search results. Competition and result pages on a club domain are explicitly excluded from indexing.
No thin pages generated
We do not generate a page per club, per course or per town on your domain to catch search traffic. Those pages help the supplier and embarrass the club.
Nothing published without you
A competition on your domain is still only readable once one of your admins publishes it. The address changes; the permission model does not.
Live in the product
The practical questions
What your IT provider will ask
Usually three things, so here they are up front.
Does this affect our main website?
No. You are delegating one subdomain, typically scoring, results or comps. Your main website, your email and every other record on the domain are untouched.
Who manages the certificate?
We do, automatically. It is issued once the DNS record resolves and renewed before it expires. There is nothing for the club to remember, and no annual invoice for it.
What if we want it back?
Remove the DNS record and the subdomain stops resolving to us. Your competition records are yours regardless, and every competition exports to CSV in full. Leaving is a DNS change and a download, not a negotiation.
Questions
About domains and data
Can results live on our own domain?
Yes, under the Club Platform implementation package. Results can be served from an address like scoring.yourclub.co.za.
You add one DNS record, and the certificate is issued and renewed automatically after that. Club result routes are set not to be indexed, so putting results on your own domain does not put your members into search results.
Can the results carry our club's branding?
Yes, as implementation work. Your club's colours, logo and icons are applied across the scoring and results experience, including the home-screen app, so what a member opens looks like your club rather than like a supplier.
This is configured for your club under the Branded Club or Club Platform implementation packages. It is not switched on in a standard account.
Who can see the results?
Whoever you share the link with. A competition is only publicly readable once someone with admin rights publishes it; until then it is not reachable from the internet at all.
Published result pages are set not to be indexed by search engines, so a member's name and score do not turn up in a web search for them.
Where are the scorecard photographs kept, and who can see them?
In private storage that is not readable from the internet. There are no public access rules on the bucket at all.
When a member of your staff opens a card in the review screen, the image is fetched through a short-lived signed link generated for that request. There is no URL that can be shared or guessed to reach a scorecard image.
Related