No golf group plays just one game. Here's how the free Duck Hook Golf app stacks multiple side games in a single round — each tracked separately, all settled together.
Listen to any first tee on a Saturday morning: “Five-dollar skins, and are we doing the Nassau? Carts against carts? Somebody wants a Vegas game on the back.” That's three or four separate competitions layered on eighteen holes — which is exactly why the scorecard-and-calculator approach falls apart. Someone always ends up tracking the Nassau in their head, and the guy tracking it in his head always seems to win it.
Duck Hook Golf handles this with side games: extra games created inside the main one. Set up the round as your skins game, then stack a Nassau on top as its own side game — with its own format, its own stakes, and its own leaderboard. And it's not just the organizer's job: any player in the group can create a side game within the round. If two guys want their own match-play battle inside the foursome, they spin it up themselves in a few taps.
Each game keeps its own settings, too — run the skins net and the Nassau gross, or put different stakes on each. Every leaderboard updates live during the round, so you always know where you stand in each game separately.
The stack is only as fun as the games in it, and this is where Duck Hook Golf runs away from the field: Skins, Stroke Play, Nassau, Match Play, Quota, Vegas, Best Ball, Scramble, and Alternating Shot — plus match-play variants of the team games, and exclusives like Howard Vegas that you literally can't find in any other app.
Not every bet is a game. Five bucks on closest to the pin at the 7th, a long drive on 12, the longest putt of the day: the scorecard has no idea who won those. Duck Hook Golf tracks them as side bets. Pick the bet, pick who’s in, set the stake, and pick the winner once it’s decided. And when somebody’s 2 down and wants more action, the app scores the press too.
Multiple games usually means multiple rounds of who-owes-who. Not here: when the round ends, Duck Hook Golf works out every player's results and turns the whole web of wins and losses into the fewest direct payments possible, with one-tap Venmo requests to close it out. Three games, their presses and every side bet: one settlement, and one results email for the round. (More on how that works in our post on automatic payouts.)
Duck Hook Golf is free, tracks every side game separately, and settles them all at once. Set up your first round in under a minute.
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