Scoring

Each phone shows "Two scores" and "Pick one to keep" under that player on the hole, with the two scores as choices.

• Tap the right one: the host can always pick, and so can any player allowed to enter that score.
• Until someone picks, the later score counts, and the other stays in the round's record.

The host closes the round, and the scores stay as they are.

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Usually a handicap stroke: a player who gets a stroke on a hole has one taken off for the net score, so a 5 counts as a net 4.

• The scorecard shows a dot on the player's score box for each stroke they get, and the net under the name.
• On the board, tap the player's row or a running total to see the stroke and the rule behind any number.

On the website, the host opens More on the scorecard, then Round, and taps "Mark absent" for that player.

• The row then reads, for example, "Did not play from hole 12" and offers "Undo"; the scorecard shows "Out today." under the name.
• In four-ball stroke play, the host can also draw a stand-in from another team, whose net score covers the missing partner on each hole.

1. In match play, four-ball match play, alternate shot played as match play or a team cup match, open "Hole options" under the hole number on the scoring screen.
2. Tap "Concede this hole" or "Concede the match": a hole asks you to tap again; the match asks you to confirm.

• You concede only for your own side and only on the hole being played, never a hole or a match already decided; the host or a co-host may concede for either side.
• The other side wins the hole or the match.
• A concession is final and can't be undone, even by the host or a co-host, so check before you tap again or confirm.

1. In a Nassau set to "Call presses" (under "Nassau presses" in "More options" on the Game step), open "Hole options" under the hole number on the scorecard.
2. Tap "Press the front", "Press the back" or "Press the total", then tap again; with more than two sides, choose who you press against first.

• Call it before anyone in the Nassau has a score, a pickup or a concession on that hole, and a new match starts from that hole.
• You press only for your own side, and only in a match where it's behind; when it's all square, no one can. The host or a co-host may press for any side that's behind.
• You then see "You pressed the front from hole 7." under the hole number. The player who pressed, or the host or a co-host, can tap "Undo" until anyone in the Nassau has a score, a pickup or a concession on that hole; after that it reads "Your press of the front from hole 7 stands."

With "Automatic", a new match starts on its own on the hole after a side goes down by the number you choose.

In match play and four-ball match play it works the same way: choose "Call presses" under "Match play presses" or "Four-ball match play presses", then tap "Press the match".

It is halved, unless the host turned on "Extra holes if all square" under "More options" on the Game step. That switch is there for match play and four-ball match play, and for alternate shot played as match play, which needs four players.

• With it on, the host or a co-host sees "Add an extra hole: play hole" with a hole number on the scorecard, taps it, then taps again; "Pick another hole" changes which hole is played.
• Players in the match see "All square. Waiting for the host to add an extra hole."
• The match ends at the first extra hole that someone wins, and the board reads, for example, "1 up at the 19th".
• If an extra hole is halved, the host adds another.

Tap the house at the top left of any round screen. The round keeps going; nothing is closed.

• Once you are signed in, Today shows it as a "Live now" card with "Resume, hole N". Tap it to go back to the scorecard, on the first hole your group has not finished.
• "New", then "Back to your round", goes there too.

The host or a co-host (and a club's staff on a club event) sees them under "More" on the scorecard:

• "Show on a TV".
• "Share the live board".
• Spot requests.
• "Waiting to be placed" (players who joined by the round link or code: "Place" puts one in the game, "Remove" takes them off the round).
• "Round" on the website (tees, handicaps, teams, who scores, the day handicap, auto-close).
• "Close the round" and, once it is closed, "Reopen the round".
• The language filter.

When the last hole is saved, the host or a co-host sees "Finish the round" on the scorecard: tap it and confirm.

• The host or a co-host can also have the round close by itself once every score is in, under More, then Round, on the website.
• Closing makes the scores final and builds the awards and the recap, and the host or a co-host can reopen the round to fix a score.
• When it's closed again, the end-of-round cards show no level up, XP or new badge, though Stats and Me still update.

Yes, on Apple Watch and on Wear OS watches.

• It follows the round on your phone: a home screen, the Leaderboard and a distance page, and you can enter scores on the watch, which your phone sends.
• The watch works through your phone, so keep your phone with you during the round.
• Starting a round from the watch opens setup on your phone.

It is light.

• Scores save on the phone first and send when there is signal.
• While a round is open, the board and chat check for news about every ten seconds.
• The app uses your location only while the hole view on your phone or the distance page on your watch is open, when you tap "Near me", and, if you turn on Track my shots, when you mark a shot.
• It never keeps your screen awake.

The round carries on, and players keep scoring.

• A host with an account signs in on another phone and hosts from there.
• A guest host can only host from the phone they started on: to host from another phone, first tap "Keep your results" on the sign-in page of that phone, then sign in with the same email on the other one.
• If a guest host's phone is lost, a co-host can close the round, or it closes by itself if the host set that up.

Yes.

• Tap "How is it going?" under "More" on the scorecard, or "Note" on the last slide of your round's recap.
• It holds a note of up to 500 characters, the conditions, a rating and how it felt.
• Only you see it, and you can change it for 14 days after the round closes.