The App Your Golf
Group Needs

Shared scorecards, side bets, crews, rivalries, and everything your group text cannot do.

The best golf app for groups runs your entire golf life

The best golf app for groups is one that replaces the group text, the skins spreadsheet, and the parking-lot argument about who owes who. bagboy is built from the ground up for golf groups: a live shared scorecard, side bets that calculate and settle automatically, crews with leaderboards and seasons, rivalries that track your head-to-head record against every player, and a feed that keeps your group connected between rounds. It is free on the App Store.

What your group is doing right now

Every golf group runs the same patchwork system: the group text for coordination (where messages get buried and nobody can find the tee time from three days ago), a Google Sheet that someone updates after some rounds and forgets after others, mental math for skins and Nassau, and the parking lot settlement where everyone stands by their cars for 15 minutes figuring out who owes who.

It sort of works. But it has no history, no accountability, and no structure. Three months from now, nobody can tell you who won the most skins in June.

What bagboy replaces for your golf group

The shared scorecard

The foundation of bagboy is the shared group scorecard. One person is the keeper. They enter gross scores for each player after every hole. Everyone else in the group follows the card live on their own phone.

This eliminates the biggest source of confusion in group golf: multiple versions of the truth. When four people are tracking scores independently, discrepancies are inevitable. With one shared card, there is one score for every player on every hole, and everyone can see it.

The scorecard shows gross and net scores (handicap strokes are applied automatically), running totals, and real-time standings for every active game. After the round, the completed card becomes a permanent record tied to the course, the date, and the players.

Side bets that run themselves

This is the feature that matters most for groups that play games. On bagboy, you set up the games when you create the round, and they run automatically on top of the shared scorecard:

• Skins. Each hole is worth a skin. Low net or gross score wins. Ties carry to the next hole. bagboy tracks carries, determines winners, and settles at the end.
• Nassau. Front nine, back nine, overall. Individual or team. With presses -- automatic or called. Every sub-bet tracked, every press visible, every result settled.
• Wolf. The rotating partner game. bagboy manages the rotation, the team assignments, the scoring, and the point totals.
• Match play. In a foursome, bagboy can run all six individual matches simultaneously. You see your status against every opponent at a glance.
• And more. Stableford, Vegas, dots, stroke play, custom games. Whatever your group plays, bagboy runs it.

The keeper enters one set of scores. Every game updates from that data. No separate tracking, no second set of books, no "wait, what did we have on the Nassau again?"

Crews: the center of your golf group

A crew on bagboy is your golf group made permanent. Create a crew, invite your regular players, and everything you do together lives in one place: a feed with every round's results and photos, leaderboards ranked within your group, seasons with standings and a champion, permanent crew records, and a group chat that replaces the text thread.

You can be in multiple crews -- Saturday morning group, work league, college crew. Each is its own world with its own leaderboard and records.

Rivalries and seasons

bagboy automatically tracks your head-to-head record against every golfer you play with -- win-loss, running ledger, streaks. Seasons add another layer: instead of every round being an isolated event, a season connects rounds into a competition with standings, points, and a champion at the end. This is what separates "we play golf together" from "we are in a league."

No more parking lot math

At the end of every round, bagboy shows a clean, itemized breakdown of who owes who, separated by game. No calculator, no "I think you owe me $15," no Venmo request sent three days later. The numbers are visible and agreed upon before anyone leaves the parking lot.

Frequently asked questions

How many people can be in a crew?

There is no limit. A crew can be 4 people or 40. The leaderboard and records scale with the group size.

Does everyone in the group need to download bagboy?

The keeper is the only person who must have the app to run the scorecard and games. Other players get the most value when they also have the app (live following, feed, rivalries), but a round can function with just the keeper entering scores.

What if our group already has a spreadsheet with years of data?

Start fresh on bagboy. Your existing spreadsheet is great for historical reference, but going forward, bagboy captures everything automatically. Within a season, you will have richer data than the spreadsheet ever provided.

Can we run multiple games in the same round?

Yes. Any combination. Skins plus a Nassau is the most common pairing, but you can run as many simultaneous games as you want. One set of scores powers all of them.

Is it free?

Yes. Every feature. No premium tier, no per-game charges, no subscription.

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