From casual skins with your buddies to a 72-player Ryder Cup league — Duck Hook Golf handles it all.
Skins, Nassau, Vegas, Howard Vegas, Daytona, Best Ball, Scramble, Match Play, Stroke Play, Quota, Stableford, Modified Stableford, Nines, Split Sixes, Defender, Tilt, Alternating Shot, Chapman, Greensomes, Shamble, Criers & Whiners, String — plus match play variants of team games. No other app comes close.
Including Howard Vegas and Alternating Shot Match Play — formats you literally can't find in another app — plus money games like Quota (Chicago) that almost nobody else scores properly.
Duck Hook Golf calculates every player's final net balance after the round, then turns the messy web of wins and losses into the fewest direct payments possible.
So if one golfer is both owed money and owes someone else, the app nets that out instead of making them collect from one player and pay another. No mental math. No spreadsheets. No arguments.
Playing more than one game? The round settles as one. Skins, the Nassau on the side, every press and every side bet are netted into a single settle-up, and everybody gets one results email, not one per game.
One tap sends a Venmo request, and the group settles with fewer money movements before the first post-round beer.
Search and select from more than 27,000 courses: 99% of the courses in the US, plus Canada, Mexico and Europe. Full hole-by-hole par and handicap data loads automatically.
No manual setup. No typing in par for each hole. Find your course and start playing in seconds.
Enter scores hole-by-hole and watch the leaderboard update in real time. Everyone in your group sees who's winning, who's losing, and what's on the line.
Dead zone on the back nine? Keep scoring. Duck Hook Golf queues every entry and syncs automatically the moment you're back in range — no lost holes, no re-entering.
After the round, every registered player gets an email with the full scorecard, standings, and payouts.
Playing skins AND a nassau on the same round? Create side games so every bet is tracked separately within the same group.
Any player can create a side game within the round. It's like having multiple bets running at once — because that's exactly what you're doing.
Then there are the bets the scorecard can’t decide. Closest to the pin, long drive, longest putt, Poison: pick the bet, pick who’s in, set the stake, and pick the winner when it’s settled on the green. Fourteen to choose from. How side bets work.
And when you’re down, press. Start a new bet from the next hole or double what the rest of the round is worth, and the app scores it, shows it to the whole group, and settles it with everything else. How presses work.
Duck Hook Golf uses USGA-style handicapping — strokes are automatically distributed across holes based on the course's stroke index. Toggle net (handicap-adjusted) or gross scoring per game, with full support for single and double pops.
Enter your handicap index once and the app handles all the math. Have a GHIN number? Add it to your profile and your index is pulled right away, then re-synced automatically every night. Keep it fair for mixed-skill groups, or go gross and let the best player win.
Playing on a simulator? Duck Hook Golf handles that too. Dedicated simulator handicaps and course flagging keep your indoor rounds separate from your outdoor game.
Places like Genesee Park Golf Club offer world-class indoor simulator bays year-round — run a winter skins league on the sim with the same app you use on the course.
Join leagues, track season standings, and compete across multiple rounds. Perfect for your regular Saturday group or a formal club league.
Need recurring leagues, Ryder Cup events, or multi-course tournaments? Duck Hook Pro takes it to the next level starting at $299/year.
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