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Golf, scored and settled
Score any game with your mates, watch the leaderboard live, and let the app work out who owes whom. Free.
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Every game, scored properly
Thirteen formats, handicaps and strokes worked out for you, and a leaderboard your whole group watches update hole by hole.
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Bets that settle themselves
Set a stake at the first tee. At the last green the app works out who owes whom in the fewest payments, ready to send in a tap.
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A caddie in your pocket
Satellite view of the hole, front/middle/back as you walk, bunker carries, a layup planner and plays-like distances for hill and wind.
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Run your golf, not a spreadsheet
Societies, Orders of Merit, Leagues, Cups and Ryder Cups — with fixtures, standings, prizes and a PDF for the noticeboard.
How it works
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Set up the game
Pick a course from 30,000+, choose tees and a format, invite your group with a code.
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Score on your phone
Everyone enters their own scores. Nett, Stableford and the money update live for the group.
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Settle up
The results screen says who owes whom. Pay in cash or one tap through Revolut, PayPal, Venmo or Wise.
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Also in the app
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Play from anywhere
Friends in different countries compete in one event, each on their own course, scored fairly on net Stableford.
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Mixed tees
Juniors, beginners and scratch players in one game off different tees — ratings and strokes reconciled automatically.
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Course insights
How a course really plays: the genuinely hardest holes, where the card's stroke index is wrong, and you versus the field.
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Strokes gained
Where you win and lose shots — tee, approach, short game, putting — plus a handicap trend and a career arc.
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Scan a scorecard
Photograph a printed card and the app reads the pars, stroke indexes and tee boxes, ready to check and save.
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Signed-off cards
Confirm your own scores, or switch on Marker mode so a playing partner verifies yours. A later edit re-flags the card.
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PDF results
One tap turns any result into a clean sheet for prize-giving — rounds, events, tables, cups, and a full society season.
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Notifications
Invites, joins, finished rounds, money you owe or are owed, and results — in the app, not your inbox.
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Mini golf too
Up to 20 players, par per hole, a max-putts rule, hole-in-one celebrations and end-of-round awards.
The detail, if you want it
🎮 The thirteen formats
Stableford — Points per hole, handicap adjusted. Higher wins.
Stroke Play — Every shot counts. Nett subtracts your playing handicap.
Match Play — Holes won, not strokes. Full handicap allowance.
Nassau — Three bets in one round: front nine, back nine, overall.
Skins — Each hole is a pot. Tie it and the pot carries over.
Wolf — A rotating Wolf picks a partner each hole — or goes alone for double.
Fourball — Teams of two, own ball, best nett counts. 85%.
Foursomes — Teams of two, alternate shots. 50% combined.
Scramble — Teams off one ball, best shot each time. Society-day staple.
Vegas — Team scores pair into a number; the difference changes hands.
Sixes — Three six-hole segments, a different partner in each.
Quota — Beat your own points target, not the field's cards.
Ryder Cup — Two teams, Foursomes, Fourball and Singles, to a winning post.
Side games run alongside any of them: Closest to the pin · Longest drive · Birdie pool · Snake (three-putts) · Greenies · Sandies · Barkies.
🏆 Ways to run a competition
Event
One competition, played over one round or up to four. Registration, tee times, an entry fee, a prize pool that grows as players enter, and a live leaderboard across every group. Add a cut and the top N and ties play on, with scores carried through every round.
Order of Merit
A season-long table. Members submit completed rounds and their best N count. Add an entry fee and split the pot winner-takes-all, 60/30/10, or your own shares.
League
Everyone plays everyone a set number of times. Three points a win, one a draw. A live table with the proper tiebreakers.
Cup
A knockout — straight elimination, or a group stage first with the top finishers cross-seeded into the bracket.
Society
A whole season: member roster and join code, events at any course, an Order of Merit with divisions, a 2s club, prizes, society handicaps and membership dues.
Ryder Cup
Two teams over one or more days. Foursomes, Fourball and Singles sessions, correct allowances, one point a match, live board to the winning post.
📍 The GPS caddie, in full
Open the rangefinder from any round and the hole appears on live satellite imagery — greens, fairways, bunkers, water and tree lines outlined, each green wearing its number. Front, middle and back update as you walk, with every bunker on your line labelled for reach and carry. Tap to measure anything, long-press to plan a layup, twist to rotate, follow your compass, or switch to a dark yardage-book or giant-numbers view.
Turn on the elevation aid and distances become plays-like — uphill, downhill, headwind, tailwind and temperature — marked amber so an adjusted number can never pass for a raw one. Posting a card? Competition Mode removes the aid for that round, leaving pure distances the way the Rules require.
Not every course is mapped to the same depth. Fully mapped courses show everything; greens-only courses still aim and give front/middle/back; on unmapped courses the satellite view and tap-to-measure work from your position, with one tap to request mapping. Free on every course with coordinates.
⛳ Handicaps and how they're worked out
Formula: handicap × (Slope ÷ 113) + (Course Rating − Par), then the allowance for the format.
Allowances: 95% Stroke Play · 100% Match Play · 85% Fourball · 90% Foursomes · 50% combined Foursomes.
Strokes are allocated by stroke index across all 18 holes, for handicaps up to 54 and down to −10. Plus handicaps are fully supported.
Societies can also keep their own handicaps that move after each event — a cut for beating it, a slow rise below the buffer — for groups whose members don't all hold an official one.
Handicaps in the app are unofficial estimates for casual play.
📊 What's tracked every round
Gross
Nett
Stableford
Putts
Fairways
Greens in reg
Up & down %
Sand saves
Scrambling %
Strokes gained
Handicap trend
Birdies & eagles
Scoring streak
Wager record
🔒 Built properly
✓ Cryptographically secure session tokens, not guessable IDs
✓ Every endpoint validates its input against a schema
✓ Settlements are created in a database transaction — no duplicate charges
✓ Stroke allocation is tested across handicaps 0–54 and plus golfers
✓ Your email address is never shown to other players
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Ready to play?
Set up your first round in about a minute. Your playing partners can join with a code — they don't even need an account.
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Putt for Dough · Built for golfers who take their bets seriously
Putt for Dough is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by The R&A, Golf Ireland, England Golf, the national golf unions, or the World Handicap System. “World Handicap System”, “WHS”, “Handicap Index”, “Course Rating” and “Slope Rating” are trademarks of their respective owners. Handicaps calculated in this app are unofficial estimates for casual play, not official club-issued handicaps.