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House Rules Golf

Every golf group has its own game — the formats, the side bets, the rules nobody wrote down. House Rules Golf scores yours. Properly. Live. On every phone in the group.

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Your rules, not ours

If your group plays it, the engine scores it.

Most scoring apps hand you their game and ask your group to adapt. House Rules Golf works the other way: you configure the game, the engine enforces it — hole by hole, point by point, with nothing left to mental math on the 18th green.

Match formats
Singles duels, four-ball, team matches — best ball net, counting ball, combined team putts. Full handicap support, configured per event.
Carries
When a hole pushes, the points ride. Carries follow the score onto every screen, so everyone knows exactly what the next hole is worth.
Presses & multipliers
Raise the stakes mid-match under rules you set — who can press, when, and what it does to the points.
Junk & side games
Closest to the pin, long drive, and whatever your group calls its own. Asked on every hole, winner by name — and “nobody” is a real answer.
Multi-day events
Run a full tournament: rounds across multiple days, standings that build toward a final, and a board that shows what each side needs to win.
How it works

One scorer per match. Everyone watches it happen.

1

Set up your event

Teams, players, handicaps, formats, side games, points — built once in the admin console, enforced everywhere.

2

Score between shots

One designated scorer per match. Par comes pre-filled, side games are a quick question, and the carry is always in view. Fast enough to finish before the cart moves.

3

The whole group sees it live

Every score lands on every phone the moment it’s entered — the team board, each match’s hole-by-hole story, and the path to the trophy.

In the app

Built for the group, not just the scorer.

Live

The team board

Standings in real time, with a clear read on what each side needs to close it out.

Every match

Hole-by-hole detail

Open any match and read its whole story — every hole, every carry, every side point, and the momentum of the match at a glance.

Trustworthy

A real scoring engine

Points are computed and verified on the server, backed by more than 2,000 automated tests. The math is never up for debate.

Yours

Personal stats & ledger

Your matches, your record, your running ledger — kept for you, event after event.

Social

The clubhouse

A feed for the group: reactions, side action, and the trash talk that makes it a rivalry.

Simple

No passwords

Sign in with your email and a six-digit code. Thirty seconds from invite to in.

Where it comes from

Born inside a 26-year rivalry.

House Rules Golf wasn’t designed in a conference room. It was built inside a real tournament — a two-team, twelve-player event running annually for more than a quarter century, with carries, presses, side games, and a trophy that means too much. Every feature exists because a real group of golfers needed it on a real course. Then we made all of it configurable, so it works for your group’s game too.

The rules your group argues about are the rules this app was built to settle.
● In development — iOS beta underway

Bring your group’s game.

House Rules Golf is in active beta on iPhone via TestFlight, with an App Store release to follow. If your group has a game worth scoring properly, we’d like to hear about it.

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