Run your Calcutta like a real club.
Spin up a pool for any golf tournament in minutes. Run a live auction, watch best-3 rosters score against the live ESPN leaderboard, and close the books with everyone paid — no spreadsheet, no chasing Venmos.
No account needed for bidders · We never take a cut of the pot
Rory McIlroy
OWGR 2 · 11/2
$1,240
- 1Fairway Kings−12
- 2Bogey Bandits−9
- 3The Mulligans−7
- 4Sand Trap Co.−4
Golf’s oldest bet, with a draft at its heart.
New here? A Calcutta is golf’s classic auction pool. Before the tournament, everyone bids in a live auction to “own” players. Your roster’s best three scores carry you up the board, and the pot pays the top finishers — plus a cut for whoever owns the outright leader, the Top Dawg.
The bet is named after a real club in Calcutta, where the format was born in the 19th century. We just built you a clubhouse to run it in.
“The auction is the purest test of a spectator’s nerve. Every bid is a read; every win is a piece of the lineage.”
Four steps from setup to settled.
- 01
Create & configure
Pick the golf event, set your rules, payouts, and branding in the setup wizard.
- 02
Invite your bidders
Share per-team claim links — bidders join in one click, no account required.
- 03
Run the live auction
Open lots, take real-time bids on a synced timer, and let the engine award picks.
- 04
Track & settle
Watch best-3 standings update against the live leaderboard, then close the books — see exactly who owes who.
Elite technical performance.
Engineered for high-stakes pools where every bid counts and every point matters.
Real-time auction engine
Run the draft as a live, online auction your whole crew joins from their phones — a synced countdown timer keeps everyone moving, with an auto-draft fallback for the rest of the field.
Live standings
Best-3 scoring tracks the real ESPN leaderboard hole by hole, with survival rates and what-if scenarios.
Automatic payout math
The pot splits between the low best-3 score and the outright leader, with projected winners shown live — you settle up directly, we never touch the money.
Frictionless for bidders
Bidders claim a team with a signed link — no signups, no passwords, just bid and watch.
The Field lot
Auction off every undrafted golfer as one synthetic lot, eligible for the outright “Top Dawg” prize.
War room & recap
Plan with world-ranking and odds-driven target values, then review price-vs-market value after the draft.