Overview Last updated 16 May 2026 (NZST)
Golf Fund tracks your group's rounds, calculates handicaps, and manages the shared golf fund. Log in with your name and PIN, start a round, enter scores hole by hole, and save when you're done.
🏌️ Serious Mode vs 🍺 Drinking Mode
Serious — standard golf scoring. Each hole's score is entered and counts toward your Serious Handicap.
Drinking — same scoring, but you also log how many beers you drink per hole. Each beer knocks one shot off your score for that hole (adjusted score = raw score − beers). Adjusted scores count toward your separate Drinking Handicap. Beers are also tracked for the leaderboard.
Made a mistake? Hit ← Previous hole at the bottom of the scorecard to step back and fix the score with the +/− stepper, then carry on.
Your home screen also shows a m / beer stat — how many metres you walk per beer consumed (based on ~6km per 18 holes).
A ⏱️ Round timer starts when you hit Tee Off and finishes when you tap Finish Round. Live ticker is up the top of the scorecard; total round time shows on the complete screen and on each card in Recent Rounds.
📊 How Handicaps Are Calculated
We use the World Handicap System (WHS) method, which accounts for how hard the course is, not just how many over par you went.
Step 1 — Score Differential
Differential = (113 ÷ Slope) × (Score − Course Rating)
The Course Rating (CR) is the expected score for a scratch golfer. The Slope Rating measures course difficulty for bogey golfers (113 is the standard average). Both figures are listed on every scorecard — we've pre-loaded them for all the courses in the app.
9-hole differentials are doubled so they're comparable to 18-hole scores before averaging.
Step 2 — Best Differentials
From your last 20 rounds, we take the best (lowest) N differentials, average them, and multiply by 0.96. N depends on how many rounds you've played:
3–4 rounds
best 1
5–6 rounds
best 1
7–8 rounds
best 2
9–10 rounds
best 3
11–12 rounds
best 4
13–14 rounds
best 5
15–16 rounds
best 6
17 rounds
best 7
18–20 rounds
best 8
You need at least 3 rounds before a handicap appears. Lower handicap = better player.
Serious and Drinking handicaps are tracked separately — a round only contributes to the handicap matching its mode.
💰 Golf Fund
The fund receives a $60 top-up every Tuesday automatically. Admins can manually set the balance or log a spend (e.g. after paying for a round of golf or a round of drinks). All transactions are shown on the home screen.
👥 Membership Tiers
💰 Paying fund member — chips into the golf fund and gets access to the lotto syndicate. Pick this when you register if you're in for the fund.
🏌️ Tier 2 member — plays rounds, tracks scores, contributes to leaderboards and stats. Doesn't pay into the fund and doesn't see the fund balance or the lotto page.
🎟️ Lotto Syndicate
A shared lotto pot for paying fund members. Tap the 🎟️ Lotto tab at the bottom of the screen.
Pick Wednesday or Saturday to load a ticket — the app auto-fills the next upcoming draw date and asks for a photo of the ticket. The ticket then sits in the list as ⏳ Pending until the draw.
After the draw, eyeball the ticket against the winning numbers, then tap 🏆 Won or ❌ Lost on the ticket card. Only the person who uploaded it (or an admin) can mark it.
Winnings get split outside the app by the Master of Coin. Tier 2 members hit a locked screen and can't access the syndicate.
🤝 Group Roles
💰 Master of Coin — runs the fund and the lotto. Logs spends, sets the balance, manages the syndicate.
🤝 The Hand — backup admin. Same powers, helps keep things running.
Admins can change either role from the Group roles card at the top of the Admin screen. Both roles are auto-counted as fund members regardless of their tier setting.
🌤️ Weather Widget
A clean Tauranga summary on the home screen: current temp, condition, and a hint of today's rain chance.
Tap the widget to expand the full forecast — current vitals (feels-like, wind direction + speed, rain mm), the next 14 hours with wind and cloud detail per hour, and a 7-day outlook. Refreshes every 30 minutes from Open-Meteo. Same setup as the Bayside Hub.
🎯 Side Bets (auto)
Toggle any of these on the round setup screen. The app calculates winners automatically and shows a settlement at round end.
🎯 Skins — lowest score on a hole wins the skin. Ties carry over to the next hole. Default $1/skin.
🎲 Nassau (18-hole only) — three bets in one: front 9, back 9, total round. Lowest wins each leg, ties split the pot. Default $5/leg.
🐦 Birdies pot — anyone who shoots birdie or better collects from each other player. Eagles count as 2 birdies. Default $2/birdie.
🎮 Additional Playing Options
A subtle + Additional playing options link sits above Tee Off. Tap to expand a panel with toggleable rules grouped into four categories:
Mulligans — Standard (1 do-over per player), Birthday (extra for the birthday boy), Beer (chug for a do-over, adds a beer).
Penalties & challenges — Reverse mulligan (1 token to force someone to replay), Snake (first 3-putt holds it, last holder pays a forfeit), Bag drag (loser carries the winner\'s bag).
Scoring format — Stableford points (eagle 4, birdie 3, par 2, bogey 1), Match play (2-player head-to-head, holes-up tally).
Drinking rules — Penalty drinks (manual log), Master\'s call (MoC declares drinking holes mid-round), Birdie chargers (anyone scoring birdie+ auto-makes others drink).
When active, each rule shows a quick-action chip on the scorecard top strip — tap Mulligan to use, tap Snake to pass it, etc. End-of-round summary shows usage and outcomes per rule.
🏆 Competition (manual)
For the easier-bet crowd. During a round, hit the yellow 🏆 Competition strip at the top of the scorecard and tap + Make Bet.
Pick the type (Closest to Pin, Longest Drive, Nearest in 2, or Custom), tap who won, set the stake. The app tallies them into the combined settlement at round end. No fiddly maths.
📊 Log a Past Round
On the Profile screen there's a Log a past round card. Use it to backfill rounds you played before the app so your handicap settles faster. Just pick the date, course, mode, and your total score.
🗄️ Trash / Archive
Removing a player from admin no longer wipes their data. It moves them to a Trash section, hidden from the app but with their game history kept safe.
Admin can Restore them anytime. To permanently erase someone, type DELETE to confirm — that one really is gone forever.
📷 Album
Take photos during a round using the camera button on the scorecard, or upload from your gallery using + Add Photo on the Album tab. Photos are stored in the cloud and visible to the whole group.
Tap any photo to open the full viewer. Swipe left/right (or use the ‹ › buttons) to step through. Tap the ↻ button in the album header to force a fresh fetch from the server. Admins can delete any photo.
🔒 Your Data & PIN
PINs are hashed on the server. Stored as a one-way hash, nobody (including me) can read it back. If you forget it, an admin has to reset it, not look it up.
Login is rate-limited. Five wrong PINs in a minute locks the account for 5 minutes. Stops anyone trying to guess their way in.
HTTPS only. Everything between your phone and the server is encrypted. Modern TLS only, old broken protocols are rejected.
Cloudflare in front. The site sits behind Cloudflare with bot protection blocking scrapers and brute-force attempts at the edge. The group\'s data lives in a private OneDrive folder only the app can read.
⚙️ Admin
Admins approve new registrations, reset PINs, archive players, change group roles (Master of Coin / The Hand), and flip players between Fund and Tier 2 with a single tap.
The first person to register is automatically made admin. Admins are marked with 👑 in the admin panel.
