Bad Golf App: Scorecard & GPS
Live Scoring, Games & Leagues
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Green view is here: green outlines, slope colors and a shared pin your whole group sees. Plus Ireland and Canada courses, settings that follow your account, and fixes.
Bad Golf is the free golf app for your regular group — one shared live scorecard, a GPS rangefinder with satellite maps, real handicaps, and every side game you already play, scored automatically in units so nobody is doing napkin math at the 19th hole.
ONE LIVE SCORECARD
Start a round, send the invite by text, and everyone scores on their own phone while the card stays in sync across the group. Friends at home can follow hole by hole. Finished rounds save to everyone's history automatically.
GPS ON EVERY HOLE
Front, middle and back yardages to the green on a satellite view, plus lay-up and carry numbers on holes that have them mapped. More than 11,000 U.S. courses come with their scorecard, tee ratings and slope. Missing your home course? Add it and map the greens yourself in minutes.
40+ GAMES, SCORED FOR YOU
Skins with carry-overs, Nassau with the Huckle press, Wolf, Vegas, Banker, Hammer, Stableford, Quota, Match Play, Team Match Play, Best Ball, Combo Score, Ryder Cup, Scramble, Split Sixes, Niners, Bingo Bango Bongo, Umbrella and Pot of Gold — plus greenies, sandies, barkies, Rolos, Snake, chip-ins, closest to the pin, long putt, long drive and birdie bump. Pick your games at setup and Bad Golf keeps every tally, applies handicaps, and shows the Unit Totals card when the round ends. Bad Golf just keeps score.
A REAL HANDICAP
Post your rounds and get a Handicap Index calculated with World Handicap System math — score differentials, best-of-20, net double bogey caps — applied per tee and per hole by stroke index, so a 5 and a 20 can play a fair match.
LEAGUES THAT RUN THEMSELVES
Create a season, invite the field, and Bad Golf builds the weekly matchups, flights, league handicaps, standings, prize pools and playoffs. Absences and subs handled. Commissioners get their Thursdays back.
TOURNAMENTS & EVENTS
Buddies trips, member-guests, charity scrambles: multi-day events with groups, pairings, tee times, field-wide side games and a live event leaderboard on every phone.
KNOW YOUR GAME
Fairways, greens in regulation, putts, sand saves, scoring mix and round-by-round trends, tracked from the scores you are already entering. Earn 75 badges for the great shots and the bad ones — yes, there is one for the snowman.
APPLE WATCH
Yardages and score entry on your wrist.
BUILT FOR THE GROUP, NOT THE GRINDERS
Bad Golf is not a tour-pro training tool. It is for the Saturday crew that plays the same games every week and wants the score kept straight, beyond argument.
Free. No subscription, no ads. Bad Golf, Better Times.
GREEN VIEW (lmited)
• See the outline of every green as you zoom in, or tap the new Green chip on the GPS map.
• Slope colors show you the lay of the green: red runs uphill, blue runs downhill, green is level.
• Today's pin: tap the green to set the pin and everyone in your group sees it. Your aim line and approach yardage follow the pin.
• Green view only turns on for courses where every hole is complete. Green view, slope colors and the pin are each a switch in Settings.
ON THE COURSE
• Tap the hole number on the GPS map to jump to any hole.
• The ‹ › arrows on the Score tab now move you through the scorecard instead of the map.
• Start on the back nine? Skins, Birdies, CTP and the rest now follow the order you actually played, and marking a player who left mid-round never clears holes they already finished.
• A player who leaves still has to cover every entry, stays in the per-hole games on the holes they played, and can't take Low Net.
• "End round early" now truly finishes the round, and the iPhone lock-screen card clears when you finish or leave.
• Your stats trend now reads plainly: "Decreasing (better)" or "Increasing (worse)".
MORE COURSES
• Ireland and Northern Ireland: hundreds of courses added, including Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, County Louth, Castlerock and Portstewart.
• Canada: Ontario courses added, with full province names.
• 27-hole clubs now play as proper nine-plus-nine combinations, with the right par for each tee.
FIXES
• Settings like auto-advance and Track Shot now follow your account instead of resetting when you sign back in.
• Fixed the scorecard jumping to another hole while you were backfilling scores.
• Fixed a tee box that didn't color in when it was assigned automatically.
• Fixed the post-round "share the app" prompt needing several taps to close.
• Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Chinese translations updated for everything above.
The developer, Simplistic Fishing LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Simplistic Fishing LLC
- Size
- 42.3 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
- Copyright
- © 2026 KRWellsGolf LLC
