Duffers Anonymous

Organizing a golf trip is harder than playing one. Duffers Anonymous handles the parts nobody wants to: who's playing with whom, what everyone shot, and who owes what at the end.

PLAN THE TRIP Create a trip, share one link, and let people join themselves. Add courses, set tee times, build teams, and pick a format for each round — stroke play, best ball, scramble, match play or skins. Running a one-day outing instead of a week away? That works the same way.

SCORE IT LIVE Enter scores hole by hole and everyone sees them within a second. The leaderboard is format-aware, so match play shows the match, skins shows the pot, and a scramble shows team totals. Go through a dead spot with no signal and scores queue on the phone, then sync when you're back. Nothing is lost.

SETTLE UP WITHOUT THE ARGUMENT Closest to the pin, long drive, longest putt, skins, side bets — track them as you play, with a photo if there's a dispute. Afterwards the app works out who owes whom, consolidates it into as few payments as possible, and opens Venmo or Cash App with the amount filled in. You pay in those apps; we just do the arithmetic.

THE GROUP CHAT THE TRIP DESERVES Trip chat with photos and GIFs, direct messages, and a feed of what everyone's doing — birdies, hole-in-ones, a side game changing hands. React and comment. Every message and photo can be reported, and anyone can be blocked.

ON THE COURSE The hole drawn on the map, with the distance to the front, center and back of the green. The shots you get here and the money on the hole, so nobody has to read a stroke index and work it out. Wind that points where the wind actually is, on a map you can turn. Weather for the tee time. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen while the round is running.

ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app carries the round. Distances measured on the watch's own GPS, your card, and the group's leaderboard — your phone can stay in the cart. Turn the Digital Crown to look ahead at the next hole.

A LITTLE HELP FROM AI Plan a trip by describing it. Get a recap after the round, and a proper write-up after the trip, with awards for the round of the week and the collapse of the week. Turn it off in the trip settings if your group would rather not.

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