Golf Betty is a phone app for both iOS and Android that keeps track of your scores and wagers with your friends! Golf Betty also tracks your putts, fairways, and greens but most importantly all of information from each round is saved so that you can answer the age old question, “How much money did I lose this year on golf wagers?” Naturally other analytics about average score, birdies, and pars are available. You can also filter the analytics by year or timeline.
Golf Betty also supports multi-day, multi-group golf events like your trip to Myrtle Beach where you want to track the low gross, low net, and even team winners if you have set teams. An event is encapsulated in a Golf Betty “universe” and contains the courses, players, teams and team points for that event with the Leaderboard. In fact, you can watch a different groups progress in real-time since scoring updates are pushed to the cloud. Golf Betty isn’t intended for a full-blown tournament nor is it intended for a league with specific scoring and rules, but perhaps it can fit those use cases on a minor scale.
Golf Betty is cloud-based so it does require an email and password but your email is only used to reset your password and if you choose to share the results of a round via email. There is no subscription fee which also means there is no course database or direct GHIN integration. However, it only takes a minute to setup a course and there is a course directory “universe” to share golf courses across the community. There is light integration with GHIN to update your golfers’ handicap indexes quickly but there is currently no way to post your score to GHIN.
Enjoy!
GolfBetty supports the following games:
- Skins
- Skins with Carries
- Wolf (3 or 4 players)
- Banker (high rollers game)
- Scotch (totally configurable)
- Nassau (two 9s + 18)
- 6-Hole Nassau (three 6-hole matches, good for partners)
- 3-Hole Nassau (six 3-hole matches, good for two people)
- Match (18 hole with presses)
- Points (9 points per hole for 3 players only)
- Presses (if the game supports presses)
- Trash (generic trash counter that can be used for Bingo-Bango-Bongo)
- Ad-hoc side-bets between players in addition to the game chosen
- Teams are supported for all games! The teams can be set for the round or on every hole, as it needs to be in Wolf for example.
Highlighted Features:
- Fast score entry on a horizontally scrollable, color-coded scorecard. The scorecard shows everything on one screen: strokes, hcp, par, total bet, front back totals, net score, who won a hole, the current teams, everything. Typing one score automatically advances to the next player, so entering a group score for one hole is only 4 key-clicks, the winner or winning team is immediately indicated and the total bet and scores are immediately shown.
- GHIN integration launches the GHIN web site inside the app and automatically pulls down your “Followed Golfers” to quickly update everyone’s actual handicap index.
- History shows a player’s total winnings over time and from whom, projected index, and various stats.
- Leaderboard shows who is winning by what metric over a number of rounds. If you have two groups playing over several days you can filter the History by time and use the Leaderboard to see who has the lowest gross score, net score, most birdies, etc.
- Sharing includes emailing a round’s detail in text form to the group with full scores by hole and who won what. You can also share (and import) course data, golfer data, and history data.