Better starts, a clearer map, and a scan you can trust. - Start Round now shows a venue and its courses together. A course needs a scorecard before you can play it, so you never start a round on guessed pars or ratings. - Scan, snap or type your scorecard in one editor. Check each hole, tap Confirm, and only then does your card count. A failed scan is never charged. - On the course, tap Round settings for the map view, the hole's par and stroke index, and ending your round, all in one place. - Hole prompts now wait for the hole's data, then appear one at a time, so you don't get asked for something we already know. - The map draws green, bunkers and water as soft washes under a clean play line. - Your handicap, profile and plan stay put while the app loads. Nothing gets overwritten and nothing flickers. - Plenty of small fixes to saves, Home, notifications and groups. Someone is still definitely blaming the wind.

What's New, 1.0.13 A new look, and sharper golf underneath. - Redesigned throughout: a new Home, the Clubhouse with a monthly championship and a club journal, Stats on one page, Your rounds, and the story of your handicap. - On the course the map is the view. Tap Caddie for the club, the reasoning and the wind. Tap Score to enter the hole. - Caddie has three parts: My clubs, Whole bag and Practice, with carry and total for every club and 24 drills. - Gave us your club index when you signed up? It stays yours. Once your SHANKED Handicap Index arrives after three full rounds, we ask which one you want to play off. - Report a post, a comment, a golfer or a group that isn't OK. Block anyone you'd rather not see. - The Caddie's wind now follows the line of your shot, so headwinds, tailwinds and quartering winds all count. - Handicap maths now matches the WHS rules in a few rare cases, such as exact ties and exceptional scores, so a handful of indexes may move by about 0.1. - Invite a mate with a link or a QR code. Someone is still definitely blaming the wind.

Revision to branding and multiple items throughout to app. We been busy!

Version bump - minor tweaks and fixes.

Handicaps, properly. Several corrections to how your index is worked out. A nine-hole round can no longer be scored against the eighteen's course rating. Deleting a round now recalculates your cap against the rounds you actually have left. Plus-handicappers get the right number. If your index shifts slightly after updating, this is why — and it's the right one now. Your caddy knows your wedges apart. Wedges show by loft instead of by badge, everywhere. The caddy stops offering a club that would sail the green, and is steadier when it's working from only a few tracked shots. Settings you can actually read. The settings list is now a grid of tiles, each showing what it's currently set to. Privacy, notifications, units and the rest are grouped by what they're for. You decide who finds you. New discoverability settings, plus blocking. "Share stats" off now means genuinely invisible, not just unranked. Notifications that fix themselves. Push registration now repairs itself instead of quietly staying broken. If it ever can't register, the app says so — and tells you what to do about it. Faster from cold. A noticeably quicker first load, which matters most on a first tee with one bar. Also: Flamborough Head, Middlesbrough and Chester-le-Street carded from their printed scorecards. Duplicate clubs in your bag are now impossible. Better text contrast throughout. Your live round shows on the course leaderboard even when paused. And the app stops claiming it's broken when it's actually just your signal. Founding Golfers: if you were here early, your profile now says so.

Tee times. Book a game and let your mates take the spots. Leave a spot open for anyone. Share the tee time straight from the app. Your stats, your rules. Choose whether 9-hole and partial rounds count. Defaults to 18-hole rounds, last five. Plays like. The caddy now weighs wind, elevation and temperature together. Pro. The caddy stops guessing. No more lob wedge for 250 yards when it cannot read the distance. An aim point no longer follows you to the next tee. Wedges show their loft. Tees rated for you. A tee colour with no rating for your gender shows as unrated rather than borrowing the wrong numbers. Your shots are right on every course. Round editing, redesigned. One row per hole. Fairways and greens on every hole, including par 3s. Patchy signal, sorted. Scores save on your phone and upload themselves when signal returns, even if you leave the app open on the save screen. One quiet heads-up per round, not a nag. Apple Watch. A score entered on the wrist while the phone is waking up is no longer lost. Faster to open. The round screen loads when you need it, so cold starts are lighter. My Bag. A duplicate club is now impossible. One club, one set of yardages. Shots you capture remember where you hit them from. Clubhouse. Comment on your own round at last. Notification taps land on the right screen. Friends' rounds read newest first. Share stats off means invisible. Turn it off and you leave the leaderboards entirely. Easier to read. Text contrast improved across the app. Notifications ask at the right moment, after your first saved round. Signing in with Apple no longer leaves you stuck without a name. Course cards corrected from the printed scorecards: Middlesbrough Brass Castle, Chester-le-Street, Flamborough, Billingham. Hartlepool is one club again. Nine-hole ratings are recognised. Deleting your account works for everyone again. Probably. We've shanked worse.

Scoring you can trust • Your full course handicap is allocated every time • Back nine rounds use the back nine's own stroke indexes, not the front's • The live net no longer jumps at the turn • 9-hole and back-nine rounds supported end to end • A walked-in round stops reading as the round of your life Rounds that survive a bad signal • A round saved out of signal keeps its handicap point, its flag and its medal • Losing your session mid-round no longer takes the scorecard with it • A retried save can't file the same round twice Starting a round • New Round is full screen, on the course you're about to play • Course search answers as you type, from your own courses first • Scan the card to set up a course we don't know, and fix a wrong tee rating where you find it Your bag • All 14 clubs are free • The caddy picks a club that actually gets there, instead of one whose average matches the number • Distances in metres if that's how you play A proper redesign • Faster on the first tee — the app uses your phone's own typeface now • Notifications and the feed are one Activity screen • New scorecard, Score History and Handicap Details • Consistent headers throughout, and a lighter Kudos & comments section at the foot of every card Plus a long list of smaller fixes to sign-up, invites, friends and leaderboards.

Play together, properly. • Add your playing partners to any round — strokeplay included. Everyone scores on their own phone, one card, updating as you go. • Not on Shanked? Text them an invite from the first tee and they're on the card by the second. • Share your card the moment you hole out. It arrives in WhatsApp and iMessage as a proper scorecard, not a bare link. • Sign up and reset your password with a 6-digit code. Quick, and no wrestling with email links. • New golfers get a "rounds to your first handicap" tracker, so the finish line is visible from day one. Sharper on the course • Your card keeps saving with no signal and syncs the moment you're back in range. • Live scores stay in step with your group, even when your phone's been in your pocket for a few holes. • Everyone in the fourball sees the same satellite hole map. • Scrambling stats, tidier course history, and sharper fairway and green tracking. • Your notifications mark themselves read when you open them. Someone is still definitely blaming the wind.

App Store — What's New in 1.0.5 Making golf more social, one hosel rocket at a time. This one's mostly about trust — signing up, saving your round, and knowing where the pin actually is. Signing up actually works now. Confirm your email with a tap or a 6-digit code — no more "invalid link" dead-ends. Same for resetting your password. Your round is safe. We rebuilt how scores save, so a dropped signal, a locked phone or a pocket-check can't lose your card or leave a ghost round hanging about. Better maps and yardages on course — sharper hole layouts and distance-to-pin, and your group finally sees the same green (looking at you, back nine). A tidier Clubhouse — Kudos, a course champion, and everyone's form at a glance. Smarter insights — shot dispersion, how you stack up vs the field, and strokes gained. We'll even suggest a drill for whatever's leaking shots. No lectures. Plus a stack of small fixes and fewer spinners. We read every message — even the spicy ones.

• Shot spread: tap a club in My Bag to see your full dispersion, not just an average. • You vs the field: see how you played each hole against everyone who's logged the course. • A rebuilt Clubhouse — Spotlight, form-aware leaderboards, and a monthly Champion. • Fairer leaderboards (best-rounds Club Championship + Most Improved). • My Bag rebuilt with a Bag Rating and coaching cards. • "Plays like" elevation-adjusted distances (Pro). • Cleaner handicap maths, steadier back-nine GPS, faster loads, and plenty of fixes. Someone is still blaming the wind.

New this update: • Aim anywhere on the hole. Drop a target on the map and drag it where you actually want to land it - we'll show the carry to your spot and what's left to the pin, each with a club. Doglegs finally make sense. • Distance rings. A faint range grid around the green, on tap. Off by default so the map stays clean. • Out on the Course, live. When your mates are round the same track at the same time, see how you all stack up in real time. • A fresh look. Bigger, bolder scores on the feed and scorecards, cleaner round cards, tidier achievements. • Mates' 9-holers and abandoned rounds now ping you too - not just full 18s. • Scorecard scanning is more reliable. Under the bonnet: • Fixed the odd bounce back to Home and screens closing on their own. • Scores save more reliably on patchy clubhouse-car-park signal. • Faster, smoother feed and a quicker return when you reopen the app. • Face ID / Touch ID sign-in fix, plus scoring fixes for Stableford and Skins. Found a shank in here somewhere? Tell us - admin@shanked.app. We read every one. Even the spicy ones.

What's New in ProV1 ProV1 has landed. Premium name. Same shanks. Here's what's new: My Bag, rebuilt. A calmer Bag Health view, a visual distance map of your clubs, and insights you can tap straight into. Now you know exactly how far everything flies. In theory. Rounds that stay put. Fixed the mid-round sign-out, the scorecard that vanished when you reopened the app, and the "stuck on Loading." Your round saves even when the signal's off in the trees with your ball. A sharper round screen. Clearer wind, a tidier distance HUD, and a smarter Track-a-shot sheet. Sharper GPS. Quicker fixes, fewer stalls, and it keeps tracking from your pocket. Scan your scorecard. Snap the card and we'll read it in. New course with no rating? We'll find the tees too. A caddie worth listening to. Proper feedback at every handicap — not "play more rounds" when you've clearly played plenty. Find your fourball. Better friend suggestions and a tidier mutual-friends view Plus Face ID that actually works, a friendlier welcome for new players, and text you can read in the sun. Found one we missed? Tell us. We read every message — even the spicy ones.

What's New — v1.0.1 We've been out on the course fixing the things that bit us - and making live rounds a lot more fun to watch. Here's what's new. Live rounds, properly social • Follow your mates in real time — live scorecards now update as they play • Fairways, greens and putts on every live card, not just your own • Net scores on live cards, plus a per-nine breakdown • Pull to refresh the Clubhouse Trophy Cabinet • Achievements reborn as a shareable Trophy Cabinet • Earned dates on every badge and progress bars for the ones you're chasing • Older imported rounds now unlock the badges you already deserved Better scorecards • Per-hole putts on saved scorecards • Every round gets its own little takeaway "story" Calmer notifications • Live rounds pinned to the top while they're actually happening • Tidier cards, less noise Smoother all round • Redesigned sign-up and sign-in, start to finish • No more flicker when screens redraw; stats and leaderboards load without blanking out • GPS stays with you when you resume a round Your scores are safe • A finished round can no longer be lost — we've layered the save so it always lands • Fixed rounds getting "stuck open", save buttons that did nothing, and a leaderboard that hung on "Crunching…" Spotted a shank we missed? admin@shanked.app — we read every message.