Handicaps
What is a GoodSpeed handicap?
Our own handicap, worked out from the rounds you record in the app.
- It averages your best recent rounds (the best 8 of your last 20 once you have 20), adjusted for how hard each course is, with limits on how much one bad hole or a sudden jump can move it.
- It appears after three rounds and is revised every night.
- It is not an official handicap, and each event or club decides whether to accept it.
How many strokes do I get in each game?
Each game uses its own share of your handicap, the share most golf groups use for that game; a game's page says it under Handicaps, and for most games the host can change the percentage when setting up. On the board, tap a player's row, then "Show every hole", to see the strokes on each hole.
What is "Strokes you get"?
A calculator under Handicap: tap "Strokes you get", pick the course and the tees, and it tells you the strokes you get from your number.
Can I bring my handicap from another app?
Yes, in Stats, on Me: "Import rounds from another app" takes a photo of your round list from apps like 18Birdies, TheGrint or Golf GameBook, or, on the website, a filled-in spreadsheet. Imported rounds count toward your GoodSpeed handicap, but not toward the second figure built only from event rounds and rounds another player confirmed.
What is a handicap card?
A page with your GoodSpeed handicap, your last rounds and a check link, private until you tap "Publish the card" under Me, Handicap, Your handicap card.
What is a day handicap?
A handicap for one round only, worked out from each player's own scores that day, for players with no handicap or for everyone. The host picks it for a stroke-play round from More on the scoring screen (under Day handicap in the app, or Round, then Day handicap on the website): Peoria (a handful of holes, kept secret until the close), Callaway (your worst holes come off your total) or System 36 (points on each hole against par). It never changes anyone's GoodSpeed handicap.
Does a practice round count?
Not if you switch "Practice" on under "More" on the scorecard.
Does GoodSpeed Golf post my scores to GHIN or the official handicap system?
No. GoodSpeed Golf does not post scores to GHIN or any official handicap system, and it does not look up official handicaps.
- A handicap you type in is shown as you entered it, with the system you name and the date, and we never recalculate it.
- After three rounds that count, you also get a GoodSpeed handicap: our own number from your rounds in the app, revised every night. It is not an official handicap, and each event or club decides whether to accept it.
To keep an official handicap, post your scores with your handicap service as you do now.
Anything else: write to support@goodspeed.app.