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Who sees what

A bad round is between you and the trees.

One switch decides who sees you on the map, and nothing is shared until you set it. Try it: it’s the one in the app.

Who sees you on the map

Friends see your course, hole and score while you play. You see friends, plus anyone sharing with everyone.

What you seeNear Iowa City
  • Priya NairSugar Bottom · hole 14 · −1 thru 131 min ago
  • Theo LindqvistSugar Bottom · hole 14 · +4 thru 131 min ago
  • Maya OkaforPeninsula Park · hole 7 · −3 thru 63 min ago
What friends seeYou, on hole 7
  • Course you’re onYes
  • Hole and scoreYes
  • Open to playYes
  • Finished roundsYes
  • Exact positionNever
With friends, free

Everything you do together. None of it behind a paywall.

Home: friends on their courses, on the hole they’re playing.
The live map

Friends on a course right now, on the hole they’re playing.

Open to play: free for an hour, or tonight.
Open to play

Say you’re free for an hour or tonight, and friends can ask to join.

Following Priya’s round live.
Follow live

A friend’s round, hole by hole, and a CHAINS! when they birdie.

The card on hole 7: four skins to Wes.
One card, every phone

Skins, who tees first, and the same card on everyone’s phone.

Priya’s page: playing now, and you lead 2–0.
Head to head

The rounds you’ve played together, and who leads.

Friend requests to accept, and who’s out right now.
Friends both say yes

Nobody sees your rounds or you on the map until you accept.

The rules

Six things that never change.

  1. Off until you share

    Live stays off until you pick friends or everyone, and turns off just as fast.

  2. Mutual

    You see friends on a course only while you’re sharing too.

  3. A hole, not your spot

    The map shows the course and the hole, never where you’re standing.

  4. Your rating, your call

    Show it to nobody, to friends, or to everyone. A shared card can still use it for handicaps.

  5. Rounds stay with friends

    Your rounds reach your friends and nobody else, and the people on your card show by name, never by score.

  6. Every fact has an age

    “On hole 7, 4 minutes ago.” Nothing old passes for live.