product · 26 July 2026 · By Simon Berriman, Founder of Caddie Live

Inside the Markkleeberg Masters: Our First Big Event, Scored Live

Every product has a moment where it stops being a demo and meets the real world. For us, that moment was the Markkleeberg Masters — the first large club competition run end-to-end on Caddie Live, with a full field on the course, scores going in live on phones, and a leaderboard up on the clubhouse screen for everyone to watch.

It was held at Golf Club Markkleeberg, just south of Leipzig, and it's exactly the kind of event Caddie Live was built for: a proper club day, a mixed field of juniors and adults, and a format with enough moving parts to keep an organiser on their toes. Here's how it went — and what the day looked like once the dust settled.

A whole competition in a single day bold text The Markkleeberg Masters isn't a straightforward eighteen-hole medal. It's a split-format day, designed to be sociable and to keep every group in the mix:

• Morning: a 9-hole individual Stableford, played off handicap, with the field sent out in a shotgun start — everyone tees off at once, from different holes, so the whole field finishes together.
• A short break — the traditional Masters-style sandwiches — while the results came in.
• Afternoon: a 9-hole scramble in small teams, with the teams built from the morning's results so the flights stayed balanced.

Roughly 48 golfers went out in 12 groups in the morning, a genuine mix of ages and abilities playing on the club's 9-hole layout (par 34). It's the sort of field where handicaps range enormously — and that's the whole point of Stableford: everyone has something to play for on every hole.

The morning, by the numbers

The morning round is where the live scoring really earned its keep. As groups made their way round, scores went straight in on phones and the clubhouse leaderboard updated in real time. By the end of the round, more than 250 holes of Stableford had been logged live — the raw material for the whole day's story.

Dig into those cards and you get a lovely portrait of a real club field:

• 62 pars across the completed rounds — a satisfying number of "good hole" moments spread right through the flights.
• A handful of birdies, each one a little jolt of drama on the leaderboard.
• The front of the Stableford field clustered in the low-to-mid 20s — a strong return over nine holes, where 18 points is effectively a level round. That spread is exactly why Stableford works for a mixed field: a high-handicapper picking up points on a par three counts for just as much as a low-handicapper's birdie, and nobody's day is ruined by one blow-up hole.

The afternoon scramble: red numbers appear

If the morning was about grinding out Stableford points, the afternoon was about having fun and going low. In a scramble, teammates all tee off, pick the best ball, and everyone plays their next shot from there — which means teams post scores no single player would manage alone.

The numbers tell that story instantly. Across the afternoon, teams racked up plenty of birdies and one two under par or better, and the leading team came home in level par (34) over the nine — a fine effort on a course where the morning field had been happy to make pars. The scramble did exactly what it's meant to: it let players who'd had a tough morning walk off the last with a smile.

What live scoring actually changed

The point of all this isn't the technology — it's what the technology let the day feel like. A few things stood out:

• The leaderboard was part of the room. With the standings up on the clubhouse TV, players coming off the course could see where they stood immediately, and the people not playing had something to watch and talk about.
• The break didn't kill the momentum. Because the morning results were already in and sorted, the afternoon teams could be built and sent out quickly — no spreadsheet, no scrambling around at the scorer's table.
• It worked with a real field, not a test one. Some players scored on their phones, some groups had one scorer, and printed sheets backed the whole thing up. The mix is the reality of club golf, and the day held together.

For us, that's the takeaway. A live leaderboard turns a competition from a set of individual rounds into a shared event — something the whole clubhouse is following at once.

A word from the organisers

We wanted the day to feel like a proper event from start to finish, and the live leaderboard really added something special. Players could see how things were unfolding as they played, and the clubhouse stayed engaged throughout the day. It made the competition feel connected in a way we’ve not had before.

— Ellen Langenhan, Organiser, Markkleeberg Masters

Thank you, Markkleeberg

Huge thanks to everyone at Golf Club Markkleeberg for trusting a new tool with a day that clearly means a lot to the club — a fixture that brings juniors and adults together year after year. You can find out more about the event on the official Markkleeberg Masters website.

If you're planning a club day, a society outing or a corporate event and you'd like the same thing — scores going in live, a leaderboard your whole clubhouse can follow, and results ready the moment the last group walks off — that's exactly what Caddie Live is for. This was the first big one. It won't be the last.