Setting up a round

1. Type the course name or town and tap "Search", or tap "Near me" to list the ten nearest courses (your location is used for that tap only).
2. If the course is not listed, tap "Enter a course by hand": type the card in once, or fill it from a photo of the scorecard, and it is kept for next time.

Add them one at a time:

• Enter an email address or a phone number under "Add a player" and tap "Add", or tap "Add a name only, for someone you score" and type a name.
• A name under "People you play with" adds that person in one tap.
• Tap a player's row to give them a handicap and where it came from ("From", for example GHIN), or a number of strokes for today, or nothing.
• If you are signed in and have a crew, the "Add" button that carries the crew's name adds everyone in one tap.

Yes.

1. When you set up a round, enter an email address or a phone number under "Add a player" and tap "Add".
2. The player's row then reads "Gets an invite".
3. When you start the round, we email each address a link to that player's spot.

Texts come from you: in the app, Messages opens with each player's link, and on the website you copy the link and text it yourself. Inviting by email needs you to be signed in.

Thirty-nine in all. Thirty-six are on setup's game list, and you can pick several for one round:

• Stroke play: Stroke play, Stableford, Modified Stableford, Quota, Nines, Front and back nine.
• Match play: Match play, Four-ball match play, Low ball, high ball, Low ball, low total, Six-point Scotch, Sixes, Vegas.
• Team games: Four-ball stroke play, Best balls of four, Scramble, Shamble, Alternate shot, Worst ball, Team average, One gross, one net, 1-2-3 best ball, Rotating must-count ball, Greensomes, Chapman, Team round, Six Six Six, Low and high handicap.
• Side games: Skins, Nassau, Contest, Bingo Bango Bongo, Rabbit, Wolf, Banker, Hammer.

The other three are set up elsewhere. Pick'em is under Extras in More formats on the game step. The team cup is set up from a trip. The personal card comes with Pro: the app draws three goals for your course each day.

Tap Rules under any game to read how it works. Most games also have a page.

• In a team game, the "Review and start" step lets you tap "Draw at random" or "Balance by handicap", tap a player to move them, and tap a team's name to rename it.
• Under "More options" on that step, "Groups" puts four at most in each group, and "Shotgun start" lets you set which hole each group starts on.
• When everyone plays for themselves, the step still holds the groups and "Shotgun start" under "More options".

Under "More options" on the "Review and start" step:

• "Who scores" is "Everyone" (anyone in a group can enter the group's scores), "One scorer per group" or "Each player their own".
• "Players can add themselves from the link" is on by default; switch it off and nobody new can join from the link: players already in keep their spots.

Course details come from a golf course database, with hole maps from OpenStreetMap.

• If your course is missing or wrong, enter it by hand or from a photo of the scorecard.
• Hole distances show in yards or meters. To change them, on Me, tap "Settings", then "Units".
• The app is in English.