• Golf Sync now runs on iPad. • The Event Desk for iPad: check players in at the registration table, signed in or with a station code. A check-in made while the wifi is down is saved on the iPad and sent when it reconnects. • At the desk: put a substitute in a no-show's spot, see every volunteer's post and every team's starting hole, and run the day's groups and finish. • Contest holes: a volunteer's iPad records closest-to-the-pin and long-drive marks. A mark saved twice counts once, and the last one can be taken back within 15 minutes. • Day-of on your phone: "Right now" shows where every team is, what needs you, and what's left before you finish. • Scorecards: a "Just the scorecard" view, and contest holes you can't miss. • Pace of play names each group by its team. • Find on the event console: any setting or card, in the words you'd use. • For league organizers: undoing a call-off asks whether to tell everyone, a paused day-before reminder says so, and setting up next season never makes the same season twice. • Rate Golf Sync: a new row under Account → Support. • Fixes: you stay signed in more reliably, and every member's league dashboard loads again.

• Pickleball, bocce and mini golf: an event can now run court tournaments alongside its golf, each with its own board of courts, pools, results and bracket. • Starting holes on the day: organizers walk the carts and tap each team's starting hole, or read the cart sheet from a photo. • Match cards now say who is up and how far through the round ("1 UP", "All square · Thru 5"). • Leagues: weekly scoring that opens and finalizes on its own, calling off a week, emailing results, automatic pairings, a league time zone, handing a league to a new owner, and setting up next season. • Check-in, Finishing and Withdrew now work on league rounds too. • Account → Legal lists the data sources behind our course and map information and the open-source software inside the app. • Course search lists the courses in Golf Sync's directory; a course that isn't there can be added by name. • Reliability and security fixes.

WHAT'S NEW (App Store, version 7.6.2) Score your way • New number pad: tap a score box and pick the number, and it jumps to the next player or hole. Prefer + and −? Switch between the two above the scorecard, and your phone remembers your choice. • Stroke dots: a dot shows where a player gets a stroke, by each name in a match and by each hole on your own card. Contests without a tape measure • Closest-to-the-pin can now be played the easy way: if you're closer, put your name on it. The newest name goes on top, and your scorecard shows who's leading. Match play • After a match is decided, the scorecard stays on the match view, so whoever is scoring the group can keep entering everyone's holes. For organizers • Record bocce and other game results right from the tournament's board. Each result goes straight into the cup standings and onto the TV.

Start a league from the app • Send a request to start your league: pick one season or a full year, tell us about your league, and follow your request until your league is switched on. Running a tournament? • Organizing a charity scramble, an outing or a member-guest? New organizers now find Golf Sync XP on the home screen, on the Tournaments tab and on the first screen after sign-up. Also in this update • The code card now reads "Tournament code". • Fixed: "Open system settings" now opens the Settings app on iOS 27.

Scorecards show how your team plays each hole when a round mixes formats. Golf Sync XP events use the handicap your organizer set for you. Signing your card follows your round's rules. Block or unblock another golfer from a message conversation. Add a casual round to your calendar in one tap. When someone enters your scores, the notification opens that round's scorecard. Organizers: weather delays that move every tee time, volunteer shifts, pace of play, and flight groups that move together. Clearer wording when you claim your spot, plus fixes throughout.

What's new in Golf Sync 7.5 • Finish your tournament from your phone: the new Finishing screen shows who is still out on the course, the winners, the contests, locking the scores, the TV and the final message to players, all in one place. • Co-organizers can now build teams and sign up players from the phone, not just the event owner. • Collecting entry fees at the check-in table? Mark a player paid (cash, Venmo, check and more) or waive their fee right from Registration and Check-in. • Set up your Golf Sync XP event with the assistant, one question at a time. • Already have a spot in a tournament? The join screen now tells you what to do: continue as your own spot, or let us know. • Scramble and alternate-shot team cards keep scoring through dead zones on the course. • Unlocking your phone between holes no longer signs you out, and "Playing today? Join with a code" is right on the sign-in screen. • Bug fixes and improvements.

This update brings everything we've shipped over the past two weeks into one version. • Golf Sync XP events: one event code now opens every tournament in your event, with season standings or the cup in one place. • Run event day from your phone: withdraw, disqualify or reinstate players, enter a paper scorecard, manage join codes and the waitlist, record match results, set side-pot winners, change the course and set team handicaps. • Tournament screens now have Play, Leaderboard, Field, Standings and Info tabs, with flight filters. Crowded shotgun starts show wave letters like 7A and 7B. • New Past Events screen: every finished event and where you placed. Your handicap history now shows who changed your handicap and why. • More reliable scoring: scores entered with no signal are kept and sent later, and scanning a scorecard warns you before it overwrites holes you've already saved. • Post closest-to-the-pin and long-drive results from the hole you're on. Start and correct Wolf, Skins, Vegas and BBB games from your phone. • Sign in with Apple or Google and your league invitations still work. You stay signed in after changing your password. • A new "Emails from my organizers" switch on the Account tab. • How-to guides and Help open the latest guides, and the assistant is now called Ask Golf Sync.

Event pages for multi-round events: one code now opens the whole event — every round with its own "Join" button, plus the season standings and the cup. Match play, easier: Ryder Cup-style rounds open straight on the Match scorecard, and you can score your whole match — partner included. Sturdier scoring: clearing a hole in a dead zone now sticks, Best Ball players score on their own card, and scoring grids only offer players you can actually score for. Clearer leaderboards: points seasons show points, a held board says which hole it's held through, and a finished round's code tells you the round is over. For organizers: payout edits keep your custom split and side-pot winners, and seats someone has already claimed show as taken. Plus bocce and other non-golf games in team events, and many smaller fixes.

Scoring a team round on your phone Match play, best ball, scramble and alternate shot rounds can now be scored from your phone. Open the round and tap Open Scorecard to enter your strokes hole by hole. In match play you enter your own card and your opponent enters theirs. Plus handicaps stay plus If you play better than scratch, your handicap no longer loses its minus sign when you edit it. The number keyboard on that field now includes a minus key. You'll know when your scores aren't counting yet If your round uses teams and you haven't been put on one, your scorecard now says so. Your strokes are saved the whole time, and they start counting the moment the organizer adds you to a team. Entry fee and round details are edited in one place Organizers: the entry fee, field size, max players and registration deadline are now edited only on the Field & Entry card, and the description, date and start time only on Basics. Editing a round no longer risks clearing a setting you changed somewhere else, including an entry fee quietly dropping to $0.

Run your event from your phone. EVENT SETUP, NOW ON MOBILE Three new tabs in the event console let you change things you previously had to open a laptop for: • Basics — name, date, tee time, location, description • Field & entry — field size, players per flight, registration deadline, entry fee • Season & points — how a round feeds your season standings Moving a tee time from the clubhouse car park, or raising the field cap because two more players turned up, no longer means finding a computer. LEADERBOARD FIXES • Team match play (Ryder Cup style) rounds showed an empty leaderboard even when every match had been scored. Fixed. • If you published a per-player board alongside a team board, the app was hiding it. It now shows both, and the switcher moves between them. CHECK-IN Players who don't have a GolfSync account are now marked in the walk-up picker, so you can see before you tap. On rounds that require verified players, you can add someone with a short reason instead of hitting a dead end at the first tee.

Getting onto your round, rebuilt. • Big fields: on events with hundreds of players, searching now covers the whole field — so you can always find your name. • Clearer failures: if the leaderboard or your scorecard can't load, the app says so instead of looking like nobody has teed off. • Organizers: release a mis-claimed spot straight from your phone, and seat walk-ups at the desk even on accounts-only rounds. • Fixes to scoring on shared spots, voice scoring, the watch, side games and match-play boards.

Joining an event is more forgiving. If you open your event before you've picked your name from the team list, the app now takes you straight to that list instead of showing an error.

Hand the phone to your hole volunteer without hunting for the right screen — the volunteer check now sits right under the scores it is signing for, on whichever card you are looking at. And a score a volunteer already signed is no longer frozen: fix it, and the hole simply asks to be signed again. • The volunteer check is attached to the bottom of your scorecard, on the hole you are on • Correct a score after it has been signed — it still counts, and the hole is marked for re-signing • Shotgun starts: your card opens on your group's hole and plays in your order, so a group starting on 7 reads "thru 6" after six holes • Sponsor holes and mulligans follow the hole you are actually playing

Scoring a group just got simpler. The volunteer check now lives right inside the scorecard, under the same rows your group just filled in — no second screen, no re-reading the same four names twice. Rounds with hole volunteers now open on the all-players view, so the phone carrying your group's card starts on the screen it's actually scored from. Scramble and best-ball rounds can now be signed by a hole volunteer too.

Scorecards now draw the round you're actually playing — a 10-hole putt putt round shows 10 holes, not a blank back nine. Putt putt rounds no longer ask which tees you're on, and the team board shows your Total instead of a to-par number that doesn't apply. Mistyped a tournament code? You can now enter a different one instead of getting stuck. Golf Sync XP events have their own spot on your dashboard and open straight to the event — no more landing on the request form. Scores you enter while service is spotty now say plainly that they're waiting to send, and they send.

Putt putt & scramble rounds, from the phone Volunteer check at every hole. The player keeping the card hands their phone to the hole volunteer, who reads the group's scores, fixes any mistake, enters their code, and locks the hole. Affirmed holes show as locked on the card. Check-in desk works for walk-ons. Search the roster by name or team, check people in with one tap, and seat a new group with names only. The scorecard matches the round. A ten-hole round shows ten holes — no phantom back nine. Par 1 and par 2 holes can now be set from the phone on putt putt rounds, with an "All par 2" shortcut. Scores stay with their owner. A score saved offline on a borrowed phone now syncs to the right player's card.

Golf Sync on your wrist. • APPLE WATCH — Score your round from your watch. Enter strokes hole by hole and they land on the same card your organizer and the rest of the field are looking at. See where you stand between holes without taking your phone out of the bag. • STROKES GIVEN — Your watch marks the holes you get a shot on, allocated by stroke index. Your handicap and running points show on the standing page. • SCRAMBLES — On a team event the watch shows the side's shared card, names your team, and asks before you replace a number a teammate entered. • FULL SCORECARD — See your whole round the way a paper card shows it: front nine and back nine, birdies circled and bogeys boxed, with OUT, IN and total. • BACK TO YOUR HOLE — Check the leaderboard and come back, and you land on the hole you were on instead of hole 1. • LEAGUES — Season rules, adjustments and flights, a prior-results view, and a clearer path when a season is reopened. • Plus fixes to in-round purchases and a number of smaller corrections.

Golf Sync XP now explains itself before you ask for one. WHAT A GOLF SYNC XP ACTUALLY IS Every competition has to be designed, built, printed, run and settled — that's 20 jobs whoever does them. Now you can see all of them, one tier at a time, and exactly which ones still land on you. VIP REMOTE OR VIP ON-SITE Tell us where you want us when you request an event. Remote means we design the competition, build it in Golf Sync, produce your materials and run the day with you. On-Site means we're at the course too. On-site depends on your location and we confirm before anything is invoiced. YOUR PRODUCTS, ON THE HOME SCREEN Play a Round, Tournament Center, Leagues and Golf Sync XP — all four, in one place. ALSO • Golf Sync Concierge is now Golf Sync VIP • Clearer wording throughout a Golf Sync XP: it's a venture with rounds, not a season with tournaments

Organizers can now run a team event start to finish from their phone. ADD ANYONE, ACCOUNT OR NOT Someone turn up who's never used Golf Sync? Add them with just a name. They count for scoring straight away, and can claim their spot later if they join. BUILD YOUR TEAMS Create teams, move players between them, rename or dissolve them — or copy the groups you already built in Pairings instead of starting over. SCORE ON THEIR BEHALF Enter a team's score yourself: hole by hole as they play, or just the final total when a paper card comes back to you.

Coming from 6.3, this update covers two releases. RUNNING A ROUND • Review paper scorecards from your phone. See the photo, enter the strokes, pick the right player when a card holds a foursome, and share a link for a card you're still chasing. Same panel as the web, on the Day-of tab. • Check-in now reflects what it saved. Tapping a player did mark them checked in, but the screen never updated — so it looked like nothing happened, and tapping again quietly un-checked them. • Cards that were never finalized could sit outside the season standings with nothing on screen to explain it. There's now one clear action per card and a banner showing exactly what's being left out. SCORING ACCURACY • Fixed a serious one: opening Hole Pars on a nine-hole round could replace the real card with eighteen invented par 4s, which then fed every net score and points calculation. • Match play award mode and its point values are editable on the phone, and a hole-points season stays hole-points when you edit something unrelated. • Season columns now read POINTS where the league scores points, instead of labelling a points total as strokes. PLAYERS AND ROSTERS • Season standings show whether you've met your league's minimum-rounds rule, so you know if you're actually in contention. Your position doesn't change — it just tells you. • You can claim your name anywhere in the roster, not only in the first twelve rows. • A school-team player can open their claim screen without being bounced to a login they don't have. Claim codes are now 8 characters and last 48 hours. PARENTS AND GUARDIANS • "My players" is now "Team stakeholders", and it only appears if a coach has actually linked you to a player.

Parents and guardians A coach can now add a parent by email, giving them a read-only view of their own player — stats and the practice schedule, and nothing else. Parents see only their own child, never other players on the roster, and never a coach's private notes. Practices, RSVPs and pairings Players get a calendar of upcoming sessions and can accept or decline each one, with a note if they can't make it, so a coach knows who to expect. Coaches can set pairings, and players see which group they're in before they get to the first tee. Notes a player can read Coaches keep their own private notes as before, and can now choose to share a note with a player. Shared notes show the coach when they've been read. Manage a league from your phone Events, seasons, courses, sponsors and season points are now editable on mobile, alongside side games, settlement and standings. Nassau and Best Ball games created on the web now appear correctly on mobile. Fixes • Scores no longer revert to a previous value while you're entering them • Every team screen now has a back and a home control — you can no longer get stranded in a sub-menu

Finding a tournament to play is a lot better this time around. Opens to tournaments near you. The catalog now shows what's happening around you as soon as you open it, instead of asking where you are first. One search box. Type to narrow what's on screen, or press search to ask in your own words — "scrambles near Richmond in August" works. See what you're signing up for. Events now show their format, team size and start method, so you can tell a four-person scramble from an individual stroke-play round at a glance. Share a tournament. Send an event to the people you'd actually play it with. Plus a pile of fixes: dates read like dates, events that take mail-in entries can finally be registered for, and reminders no longer tell you they saved when they didn't.

Team golf comes to Golf Sync. Coaches can now run a whole program from their phone: build a roster, schedule a practice round or match, and watch scores come in live while players are still on the course. Players join with a code from their coach — no account needed — and record a full round: score, putts, greens, fairways, penalties and more. • Live scoring board — see who has started and what they're shooting • Coach's notes on any player, private to you • Scores now save even with no signal and send when you're back online • Find tournaments near you with AI search

What's New in 5.0.12 • Promote your tournament from the app — request a sponsored highlight ($10/week Featured, $25/week Premium) with a live price total. • Clearer sponsored listings in the Tournament Center with a "Sponsored" badge. • Fixes and polish.

Fairer finishes: in hosted tournaments, organizers can now hold the live leaderboard until every group is in — you'll see a clear "Scores held" note while it's paused. Plus: "Book a Round" is now "Organize a Round" (rally your group more easily), and expired-password sign-in now works smoothly. Polish and fixes throughout.