For a few years I have used this app on my phone and Apple Watch and it has been brilliant. My recent issues are twofold and I can’t find a way of reporting it to the developer. Happy to be told otherwise but it seems near impossible to me.Firstly when I stand on the first tee of my local course I select the course, tee colour and start the round. For some reason on the watch it starts me on the 6th hole and I have no idea why and often don’t notice so I’m recording strokes against the wrong holes until I realise that the par three I’m playing is apparently 400yds away. Then it clicks. Secondly, for the last few round I’ve got through 18 holes and finished the round on my watch, as I have done for 3+ years, gone to the phone to confirm, and then the phone app tells me my round is incomplete then shows me a fully blank scorecard……. And I’ve not been asleep… I’ve been entering every hole on my watch. Then each time I’ve had to sit in the clubhouse and go through each hole by hole and replay it in my mind to manually re-record each hole on the phone app scorecard so it’s saves. Now you can imagine that p*sses me off! I’d love to get this resolved (all iOS and apps are up to date) because I love this app and I’ve got a load of my friends to switch over to 18 birdies because of how good I find it.If someone could get in touch and help me properly get in touch with the developer. After which I have no hesitation for rating it 5 stars.

I’ve loved using this app to score and track my shots, hence the 5 stars. However since the most recent update, maybe due to the crown scrolling feature, it’s become absolutely unusable. After hitting a shot and walking to the ball, my watch will now show a completely random hole that it’s skipped to, and not showing the yardage I wanted for that hole, and this happened like 20+ times over 9 holes. I don’t think I had accidentally moved the wheel to navigate to a different hole, maybe so but doubtful, but if this bug can’t be fixed I’d like an option to turn on/off the scroll wheel feature. For the first time in a year I chose not to use the app for my round because of this issue made it completely unusable. When it’s working it’s fantastic, the yardages are very accurate and the UI and UX is great and easy to use.

Love this app. Use it all the time for excellent scoring, stat tracking and course management but what happened to the leaderboards? I don’t show up on any of them anymore?! Has this become a Premium feature? Seems a bit petty if so. The whole concept of achieving the titular 18 birdies is now defunct as I have no way of tracking how many I have on a particular course currently. I loved the idea of ‘collecting’ them and thought it was kinda underplayed before, but now there’s zero mention it would seem.Also, If you can ever achieve automatic shot tracking, using the watch’s accelerometer or something, it would be a perfect 5-stars and you’d get my money to unlock a feature like that, but not as a subscription I’m afraid. I pay enough to play golf already.

I started using this as a free app and found it to be a very good for course/shot planning. Having upgraded to the paid app, I think it’s excellent and has certainly helped in reducing my handicap by making me analyse my game and individual shots more closely. Works particularly well when combining with data entry through my Apple Watch. Shot tracker function could possibly be a little easier to use but good to be able to drag your starting point to where the tee is whilst walking down the fairway. Contacted 18 Birdies about inaccuracies from 2 local courses and the information was updated within 2 days. Excellent service!