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Golf tournament software, $67K a month, self-reported in 2024: priced per event

Live Tourney helps golf courses, leagues, and organizers manage tournaments, scoring, registration, and schedules. Its $67K a month was reported by the founder in an interview (not independently verified), as of February 28th, 2024.

What it actually sells

Live Tourney sells golf tournament management and live scoring software. The site lists live scoring with real-time leaderboards and instant score updates without app downloads, online registration with optional payment collection, league organization, standings tracking, and schedule management.

How it charges

The site shows a Single Event plan at $199 / per event. Its pricing is described as simple and transparent for golf courses, leagues, and tournament organizers.

Where customers come from

The site shows a step-by-step usage guide, a free trial without a credit card, GHIN integration, and a blog section. It also lists golf courses, clubs, league managers, head pros, and tournament organizers as the people the product is for.

What stands out

The product combines live scoring, registration, league management, roster importing, and reports for scorecards, tee sheets, cart signs, bag tags, and more. The site says it is loved by 150+ golf courses, has 10k+ Events Run, and has 1M+ Holes Scored. It also displays $1500 Average Savings.

From the official site

Simple, transparent pricing built for golf courses, leagues, and tournament organizers.
Keep players engaged with real-time leaderboards and instant score updates. No app downloads required.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Live Tourney's $67K a month is higher than 85% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: the buyer would be a golf course, club, league manager, head pro, or tournament organizer that needs one system for registration, scoring, standings, and schedules. Distribution could come through direct outreach to those organizations, search for tournament-management software, partnerships with golf systems, and educational content about running events.

My view: the hard parts are reliable real-time scoring, importing rosters, handling payment collection, producing useful reports, and supporting users during live events. Regulation is less central than operational reliability, but payment handling, privacy, data security, customer support, and competition from existing golf software would still require serious work.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

My view: Live Tourney shows how a focused software product can package several event tasks into one workflow and price access around a specific golf-event need. The clearest lesson is to start with a narrow buyer and a visible operational job, then add adjacent features around registration, scoring, leagues, and reporting.

Sources

  1. Live Tourney official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. Live Tourney pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
  3. Starter Story founder interview: revenue reported by the founder in an interview (not independently verified), as of February 28th, 2024

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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