Wolf, Hammer and Four More Games: What's New in 1.8

The short list

Six new games in the free app, for 31 formats in total.
The hole bar. The hole, par and yardage sit at the bottom of the screen, and every call a game needs is one tap away.
Everyone Made Par. A whole hole saved in one tap.
Swipe to concede, out of the way until you need it.
Your number first. Results open with what you’re owed, or what you owe.

Six new games in the free app

In our last update, these six were scored only in Duck Hook Pro. They’re in the free app now, and each one has a full rules guide if you want the fine print before you try it on your group.

The ones where somebody makes a call

Wolf. Put your foursome in tee order and the app names the wolf on every hole, with last place taking it on the holes left over at the end. The wolf picks a partner, goes Lone Wolf or calls Blind Wolf with one tap, and nobody’s score goes in until the pick does. Points are kept hole by hole and settled between every pair of golfers.
Banker. Three or four golfers. The bank passes in tee order, and everyone else bets against the banker alone, net score against net score. Set a range when you create the game and each golfer picks their own bet on the hole. Anyone who doesn’t pick plays at the minimum, so the hole never waits.
Hammer. One against one, or two against two. Every hole is its own bet at the wager. Either side can throw the hammer to double it, and the other side takes it, and can throw it back, or folds and loses the hole at what it was worth. You set a cap of one, two or three hammers a hole when you create the game.

The ones the scorecard mostly handles

Scotch. Two pairs, four contests a hole: low net ball, low net total, a natural birdie and closest in regulation. The card settles the first three. One tap gives the closest-ball point, and a team that sweeps all four doubles the hole.
Snake. Add a Snake to any round and tap whoever three-putts. The last golfer to three-putt holds the snake, and pays everyone else when the round ends. Play one snake for the round or one for each nine, at a fixed price or doubling with every three-putt. A three-putt on a conceded hole doesn’t count.
Bingo Bango Bongo. Two to five golfers and three points a hole: bingo for the first ball on the green, bango for the closest once every ball is on, bongo for the first ball in. None of that is on a scorecard, so you tap who won each one, and it works for a group that isn’t keeping score at all.

Ten games are still scored only in Duck Hook Pro: Horse Race, Acey Deucey, High-Low, Flags, Rabbit, Sixes, Murphy, Wad, Dots and Yellow Ball.

A round screen built around the hole you’re on

The hole you’re playing now sits at the bottom of the screen, right by your thumb: the hole, its par and yardage, and arrows to the next hole and the last. That bar is also where each game asks its question. The Wolf’s pick, the bets against the banker, a thrown hammer, a three-putt, Scotch’s closest ball and the bingo, bango and bongo all go in there, with a tap, on the hole where they happened.

Hole 1 of a Wolf game: the bar at the bottom reads Landon Folkers is the Wolf, with buttons for Brian, Joel, Matt, Lone Wolf and Blind Wolf — The wolf picks from the bar at the bottom. The standings say how the game is played, right under the points.

Wolf standings on hole 17 with each golfer's wolf holes, lone wolf record and points, and how the game is played written underneath — The wolf picks from the bar at the bottom. The standings say how the game is played, right under the points.

The older games moved onto the bar too. The Howard Vegas two-pair roll used to be a pop-up over the round; now it’s taken or turned down right there. Defender shows who defends the hole, and Tilt shows who’s riding a multiplier into it.

A hole where the whole group made par is now one tap: Everyone Made Par saves it for everybody. It only fills in golfers who don’t have a score yet, so it never writes over one somebody else just put in.

Conceding moved behind a swipe. The Concede button used to sit under every golfer on every hole, making each row taller for something most rounds never use. Now you swipe the golfer’s row to the left to bring it in, and tap it. It’s there in every game that allows conceding.

No signal on the back nine? The calls queue up with your scores and go in when you’re back in range, the same way scores always have. More on scoring without service.

Your number, first

Open a round’s results and the first line is yours: what you’re owed, or what you owe. Your own payments are at the top of the list, with a Venmo button beside each, so you’re not scrolling past everybody else’s debts to find yours.

Round results for a Wolf game: You're owed $90.00, with a Venmo Request button beside each golfer who owes — Results open with your number. One tap sends the Venmo request.

And a few fixes

Unfinished rounds stay put. A round you didn’t finish now stays in Live Now on the home screen until you do. It used to drop off at the end of the week, with no other way back to it.
Missing handicaps, caught early. Pick a golfer with no handicap for a net game and the app says so above the Create button, with a way to add one right there. It used to be an alert after you tapped Create, and a trip to the Golfers tab.

All of it is in the free app.

31 formats, the new round screen, presses, side bets and every course. No ads, no paid tier for players. Update or download and set up your first game in under a minute.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Since version 1.8, the free app scores Wolf for a foursome. It names the wolf on every hole from the tee order, takes the wolf’s pick with one tap, and settles the points between every pair of golfers.

31: Skins, Stroke Play, Criers & Whiners, String, Match Play, Nassau, Quota, Best Ball, Shamble, Scramble, Alternating Shot, Chapman, Greensomes, Vegas, Howard Vegas, Daytona, Scotch, Stableford, Modified Stableford, Nines, Split Sixes, Defender, Tilt, Wolf, Banker, Hammer, Bingo Bango Bongo and Snake, plus match-play versions of Best Ball, Scramble and Alternating Shot.

Yes. All 31 formats are in the free app, along with presses, side bets and one settle-up for the round. There are no ads and no paid tier for players.

Ten: Horse Race, Acey Deucey, High-Low, Flags, Rabbit, Sixes, Murphy, Wad, Dots and Yellow Ball. Duck Hook Pro scores those plus all 31 games in the app, for 41 in total.

Update Duck Hook Golf from the App Store or Google Play. The new games and the new round screen are in version 1.8 and later.

Wolf, Hammer and four more games, now in the app.