The golf app for your regular group.
One shared live scorecard, GPS yardages on every hole, real handicaps and all 43+ side games you already play, scored automatically. No napkin math at the 19th hole.
Try a demo round in your browser → No sign-up. Nothing is saved.
Bad Golf, Better Times. 12,106 U.S. courses mapped. No subscription.
Everything your Saturday group argues about, handled.
Bad Golf App was built for the guys and gals who play together every week and want the games, the handicaps and the bragging rights kept straight without a spreadsheet.
One live scorecard
Everyone scores on their own phone and the card stays in sync across the group in real time. Watch the other cart's birdie land before they brag about it.
GPS on every hole
Front, middle and back yardages on a satellite view, with mapped greens on 12,106 courses. Lay-up and carry numbers on holes that have them mapped.
43+ games, scored automatically
Skins, Nassau, Wolf, Vegas, Banker, Stableford, Quota, greenies, sandies, snake and more. Set them up once, the app keeps every tally and shows unit totals at the end.
Real handicaps
A handicap index calculated from your posted rounds, applied per tee and per hole by stroke index, with a percentage option for your group's own rules.
Leagues that run themselves
Create a season, invite the field, and the app builds matchups, flights, weekly cards, standings and playoffs. Commissioners get their Thursdays back.
Tournaments & events
Member-guest, buddies trip, charity scramble: multi-day events with groups, pairings, field-wide side games and a live event leaderboard.
Stats and badges
Fairways, greens, putts, scoring trends and 75 badges for the bad shots and the great ones. Yes, there is one for the snowman.
Apple Watch yardages
Glance at your wrist for the number to the green and enter scores without taking out your phone.
Every game your group already plays.
Pick the games when you set up the round. Bad Golf App tracks presses, carry-overs, multipliers and points hole by hole, then shows everyone's unit totals at the end.
Run your league night in Bad Golf App.
Weekly leagues are where scorekeeping goes to die. Bad Golf App takes the whole job: the schedule, the sub, the guy who missed week four, the playoff bracket.
- Individual, team and scramble seasons with flights
- Automatic matchups, weekly cards and standings
- League handicaps that update every week
- Side games for the whole field, every week
- Playoffs, absences and subs handled
The buddies trip, the member-guest, the charity scramble.
Build a multi-day event in minutes and let the field score itself. Every cart group plays on its own live card while the event leaderboard and the field-wide side games update on everyone's phone.
- Team cup or individual formats, one day or a whole weekend
- Automatic groups, pairings, tee times and scorekeepers
- Field-wide skins, closest to the pin, long drive, low net, most GIRs and fewest putts
- A live event leaderboard the whole field can watch
- One Tournament Summary at the end, with a tap to text the final standings
Find out who really owns you.
Every game you play with your group adds up. Bad Golf App works out who gives you the most units and who takes them, round after round, and lets you put your stats next to any friend's.
- Your top three friends and your top three foes, from every game you've played together
- Head-to-head compare: handicap, scoring average and best round, gross and net
- A friends leaderboard you can sort by units, scoring average, rounds or handicap
- Every player's profile with putts, greens, fairways and badges
12,106 courses, scorecards included.
Every course in Bad Golf App comes with its scorecard, tee ratings and slope, and GPS-mapped greens. Look up your home course before you download.
Get Bad Golf. It's free.
Download it, add your group, and your next round scores itself. Scan the code with your phone camera or tap a store button.
Already have it? Open the web version.
Scan to downloadofficialbadgolf.com/getQuestions from the first tee.
Is Bad Golf App free?
Yes. Bad Golf App is free to download and free to play on iPhone, iPad and Android. Create rounds, invite your group, use GPS and run leagues and tournaments at no cost.
How does scoring the games work?
Every game is scored in units. Set the units when you create the round, play, and at the end the Unit Totals card shows where everyone finished. Bad Golf App just keeps score.
Which golf games can Bad Golf App score?
More than 40, including Skins, Nassau, Wolf, Vegas, Banker, Stableford, Quota, Match play, Best ball, Scramble, Ryder Cup, Bingo Bango Bongo, Hammer and side games like greenies, sandies, snake and closest to the pin. Every game has a rules page under Games.
How do my friends join a round?
Start a round, tap Invite and send the link by text. Friends with the app land straight in the round; friends without it are taken to the download page and then into the round. Everyone scores on their own phone and the card stays in sync.
Which courses does Bad Golf App have?
Bad Golf App has more than 11,000 courses across the United States with scorecards, tee ratings and slope, and GPS-mapped greens. If your course is missing you can add it inside the app in a couple of minutes.
Can Bad Golf App run my golf league?
Yes. Create a league season, invite players, and the app builds the schedule, matchups, flights, handicaps, standings and playoffs, week by week.