Confirm the field for a week

Short answer. Open the week, review the requests, and confirm the field. Nothing locks on a timer; the field is set when you confirm it. After that you handle scratches one at a time, and after play only the commissioner can correct participation, with a reason.

Steps

1. Open Club → your league → Manage → Schedule → the week. The Round Hub checklist ("Ready for Thursday", using your rhythm's weekday) starts with Field.
2. Check the count. "{n} of {min} players · Awaiting signups" becomes "{n} players · Ready for field review" once the minimum is met.
3. Confirm the field using the round's allocation policy:
   • First come. Requests are ordered by arrival. To move someone, add a short reason (at least 8 characters). Your draft is kept in this browser session.
   • Commissioner's choice. Tick the players you want.
   • Allocate by policy. Let Ringer fill the field by the policy (first come, fair play, new player).
4. Confirm. Confirmed players can now receive confirmations, payment requests and, once groups are published, scoring links.

How it works

• Minimum and capacity. Both are 1 to 1,000 per round and start from the rhythm. The minimum can only change before confirmation.
• Waitlist. If a confirmed player drops, promote the next eligible golfer. With automatic promotion on, Ringer does it for you.
• Override one signup. Set any signup to confirmed, waitlisted, declined or no-show.
• Someone can't play after confirmation. Mark them unavailable with a reason, withdrew or no-show. This works until scoring starts. Players can also mark themselves out with the can't-make-it link in their confirmation, which flags the field and groups for your review.
• After play. Participation corrections (for example crediting a golfer who played but wasn't confirmed) are commissioner-only and need a reason of 4 to 500 characters. A finalized round must be reopened through the correction flow first.

Who can do this

Confirming the field, allocation and minimums: commissioner or co-commissioner. Participation corrections after play: commissioner only.

Good to know

• Once a score is saved the field can't be replaced. Late changes go through unavailability or participation corrections.
• Changing the field after groups are published puts "The field changed since groups were published" on the checklist. Republish groups.

If it doesn't work

• "Select at least {min} players before confirming." / "Select no more than {max} players before confirming." Adjust the selection, or the round's minimum and capacity.
• "The field is below the minimum players for this round. Update the minimum or collect more requests."
• "Add a short reason for changing first-come order." Reordering needs a reason.
• "The request list changed. Refresh before confirming the field." / "Another manager changed the field. Refresh before confirming." Someone else acted; refresh.
• "The field is locked." / "The field is locked. Use a commissioner override for individual changes." Already confirmed; use overrides.
• "Scores are already saved for this round. The field cannot be replaced after scoring starts; no-shows and incomplete rounds need a separate participation correction."
• "There is nobody eligible on the waitlist." / "Another commissioner already filled this opening. Refresh to see the field."
• "Scoring has started, so the playing field is locked." Unavailability can't be recorded after scoring; use a participation correction.
• "Sign in as the commissioner to change participation." Commissioner only.
• "Reopen the round before changing participation." / "Reopen the season before changing participation credit." Reopen through the correction flow first.