GolfBetty is a phone app for both iOS and Android that keeps track of your scores and wagers with your friends!
GolfBetty is completely standalone which means no login, no subscription fee, and it doesn’t reach out to use any services. It’s basically a feature-rich golf scorecard with full history and analytics all stored on your phone. You pay once and enjoy it as often as you like.
Since the app is not connected to anything, like a course database or GHIN, it does mean you have to enter the course and golfer information yourself. Its a one-time setup for each course and the benefits grow from there. You can export course data, golfer data, and round history to your friends via email. And at the end of a round you can email a full description of the round with your friends the scores, who won each hole, and of course the total wagers based on the golf game selected.
The analytics help answer questions like how much money did I win or lose this season and to whom? Naturally other stats exist like average birdies, pars, and bogies.
The Leaderboard feature is great for a group golf trip. If you have a golf trip with 2 or more groups, each group can share their foursome’s round with everyone else and with all of the rounds on one phone you can select the rounds since the start of the trip and produce a full leaderboard with everyone ranked by whatever metric you select. For the entire trip you can track the leading low gross player, leading low net player, the player that won the most money, the player with the most birdies, etc.
GolfBetty supports the following games:
- Skins
- Skins with Carries
- Wolf (3 or 4 players)
- Banker (high rollers game)
- 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 is not one-click but you can copy and paste from your “following golfers” on the GHIN site to update your players’ handicap indexes without typing a bunch of numbers with decimals. It’s not great but better than nothing and certainly the only option without paying for a GHIN API integration.
- History shows a player’s total winnings over time and from whom, projected index, and various stats. One stat is an estimated index, not an official index (you need GHIN for that) and it indicates which rounds are used for that calculation.
- 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.