<h1>Benefits of Live Scoring for Your Golf Tournament</h1>
<h3>Why we believe every event should have live scoring.</h3>
<p>As someone who organises golf events, you might have wondered about live scoring and the benefits it could bring. Here are 6 benefits of introducing live scoring to your event.</p>
<ol>
<li><p><strong>Players Know Where They Stand</strong>
An obvious starting point, but important. With realtime scoring and leaderboards, all your players will know where they stand on the leaderboard. Need to birdie the last hole to make the play off? Need to avoid bogey to beat your mate? It is all there on the leaderboard. Imagine watching golf on TV without knowing how the other players on the course were doing until the end. It would be insanity. Your players will love knowing where they stand, and it will add a lot of excitement to your event.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Reduce Cheating</strong>
Unfortunately on occasion there are golfers who deliberately try to enter false scores. It happens, and at the moment, it is brushed under the carpet as no big deal. Introducing live scoring is a great way to make your event more transparent. When everyone, including the players in the groupings in front and behind can see your scores, and where you hit the ball, entering bogus scores, or simply updating your scores late on will undoubtedly raise suspicions among fellow players.</p>
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<li><p><strong>No More Scorecard Admin</strong>
Having the scores streaming in realtime means you don’t need to spend time sorting scorecards in the clubhouse after the round. Which means quicker turnarounds for the presentation and more time for drinks and socialising.</p>
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<li><p><strong>More Stats</strong>
Live scoring can deliver realtime statistics that are simply not possible to generate when you use paper scorecards. Who played the par 3s the best? Who had the most pars a row? All this data can now be at your fingertips. You can even use it to create more prizes categories.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Spectators Can Enjoy Your Event Too</strong>
Using Golfify, you can share a link to your event with anyone. This means you can actually have fans and spectators watching the action unfold. This is great if you have a following on social media, or maybe some players who can’t play in the event. Keep them engaged and with Golfify, they can even interact on the competition feed if you allow it.</p>
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<li><p><strong>No More Human Error</strong>
Computers are designed to perform calculations over and over again, returning the expected result every time. Humans… not so much. Scorecards get messy and it becomes easy to miss a point here or there. Throw in the handicaps, Stroke Indexes and teams, the whole thing can become a nightmare for inexperienced golfers. With live scoring, you just need to enter the right score on the right hole, the computer will do the rest!</p>
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<p><strong>Final Word</strong>
So there you have it. 6 powerful benefits live scoring can bring to your events. To enjoy all of these benefits, and more, download Golfify today and create your first event in seconds.</p>


<h1>🎉 Golfify 1.0 has finally landed! 🎉</h1>
<p>Here&#39;s what you can do with this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create an account, setting your home course, handicap index, and name.</li>
<li>Create competitions up to 400 people, for individual Strokeplay and Stableford formats at over 39,000 courses worldwide.</li>
<li>Invite friends either via link or invite through the player manager of the app.</li>
<li>Add inactive players using the app. This is for players who cannot use the app. They must be in a group with an active player in order to score.</li>
<li>Manage your competition tee sheet by adding and removing players.</li>
<li>Override player handicaps if needed.</li>
<li>View the number of scorecards submitted and close competitions to declare a result final.</li>
<li>Realtime scoring, leaderboards, and statistics for the whole competition field.</li>
<li>Player profile to view completed rounds.</li>
</ul>
<p>All of this, totally free.</p>
<p>There is still a lot more to come, check out our roadmap.</p>
<p>Happy golfing.</p>
<p><a href="https://golfify.io">golfify.io</a></p>


<h1>🎉 Golfify 2.0 has landed! 🎉</h1>
<h3>Team games, app search and more...</h3>
<p><em>November 15, 2021</em></p>
<p>🎉 <strong>Golfify 2.0 has landed!</strong> 🎉</p>
<p>Here&#39;s what you can do with this version:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>New Team Game Formats</strong>: including Better Ball, Alternate shot, Greensomes, Scramble and Pinehurst/Chapman ⛳️</li>
<li><strong>Brand new Create competition flow</strong> to make creating a competition even quicker than before.</li>
<li><strong>Team Profiles</strong>: View your team statistics on dedicated profiles for all the teams you have played in.</li>
<li><strong>New App Search</strong>: Search for facilities and players right from the home screen. Making it easy to check course information and to find and add buddies.</li>
<li><strong>New USGA Handicap Formula</strong> for all courses excluding Great Britain and Ireland.</li>
<li><strong>Bug Fixes</strong>: including email verification problem on smaller devices.</li>
</ul>
<p>We also introduced <strong>Golfify Plus</strong> - Our premium subscription for those wanting to take their competition to the next level. As a small team, we really hope you will consider subscribing to unlock some awesome features, and to support us as we continue to develop the app.</p>
<p>There is still a lot more to come, check out our <a href="https://www.golfify.io/blog/golfify-roadmap-2-0">updated roadmap</a>.</p>
<p>Happy golfing.</p>
<p><a href="https://golfify.io">golfify.io</a></p>


<h1>Golfify Roadmap 1.0</h1>
<h3>A look ahead to product features in development.</h3>
<p><em>July 2, 2021</em></p>
<p>I started work on the current version of Golfify in March 2020, fair to say it has taken a while to get the app to a stage where it can be released to the public. Golf is perhaps one of the most complicated games to write an app for. Competitions can contain all kinds of variables and radically different scoring formats. As a result, Golfify 1.0 is fairly limited in that it only supports two individual scoring formats, but rest assured, we have already done a lot of the hard work to enable Golfify to support more features.</p>
<p>Here is a glimpse of what lies ahead for the app:</p>
<h4>Immediate Future</h4>
<ul>
<li>Matchplay scoring format.</li>
<li>Buddy System: We often have a group of people who we trust and play regularly with, the buddy system will enable your buddies to add you to competitions and vice versa.</li>
<li>More statistics for competitions.</li>
<li>Competition Feed: A live chat for the whole competition with customisable automatic scoring alerts keeping the whole field engaged. <em>Update: Comp Feeds are now live!</em></li>
</ul>
<h4>Short Term</h4>
<ul>
<li>Team play: Enabling players to play as pairs, threes and even fours is essential to any golf app worth its salt. Including both better ball and alternate shot formats.</li>
<li>Groups: A dedicated space for your golfing friends. Organize competitions and discuss with members.</li>
</ul>
<p>We have a few secret features we are working on for the longer term too. Watch this space.</p>
<p>As always, get in touch at <a href="mailto:support@golfify.io">support@golfify.io</a> with any suggestions. We would love to hear from you.</p>
<p>Happy golfing.</p>
<p><em>James</em></p>
<p><a href="https://golfify.io">golfify.io</a></p>


<h1>Golfify Roadmap 2.0</h1>
<h3>Sneak peek at what we are working on.</h3>
<p><em>November 15, 2021</em></p>
<p>Golfify has come a long way since we first published an iOS version over 2 years ago. Our most recent release: Golfify 2.0, has seen the introduction of team formats which means you can now create almost every type of golf competition on Golfify. This has taken us much closer to our goal of being the only app golfers need when they play. We&#39;re only just getting started, and we still have a pipeline of incredible features we think you will love. Before we look ahead, let&#39;s take a look at what we have shipped recently:</p>
<h4>Recently Shipped</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Buddy System</strong>: We often have a group of people who we trust and play regularly with, the buddy system enables your buddies to add you to competitions and vice versa.</li>
<li><strong>Competition Feed</strong>: A live chat for the whole competition with customizable automatic scoring alerts keeps the whole field engaged.</li>
<li><strong>Team Play</strong>: Enabling players to play as pairs, threes, and even fours is essential to any golf app worth its salt. Including both better ball and alternate shot formats.</li>
<li><strong>Groups</strong>: A dedicated space for your golfing friends. Organize competitions and discuss with members.</li>
</ul>
<h4>So what&#39;s coming next?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Group Competitions</strong>: Organize competitions using your Golfify group. This will give group admins greater flexibility and reduce the friction of every player having to manually join the competition.</li>
<li><strong>Multi-round Competitions</strong>: Chain multiple competitions together into one. For those of you who organize multi-round events, this is going to be a game changer!</li>
</ul>
<p>We have a few secret features we are working on for the longer term too. Watch this space.</p>
<p>As always, get in touch at <a href="mailto:support@golfify.io">support@golfify.io</a> with any suggestions. We would love to hear from you.</p>
<p>Happy golfing.</p>
<p><em>James</em></p>
<p><em>Founder</em></p>
<p><a href="https://golfify.io">golfify.io</a></p>


<h1>IMPORTANT WHS™ 2024 UPDATES</h1>
<p><em>January 6, 2024</em></p>
<p>The golf community is set to experience significant updates to the World Handicap System™ (WHS™) starting January 1, 2024, with GB&amp;I implementations beginning April 1, 2024. These updates promise to enhance the golfing experience by making the sport more inclusive and accurately reflective of players&#39; abilities. Here’s what’s changing:</p>
<h2>Embracing Shorter-Length Courses</h2>
<p>For the first time, the WHS™ will include shorter-length courses in the Course Rating™ System, accommodating 18-hole courses as short as 1,500 yards and 9-hole courses as short as 750 yards. This significant change aims to broaden the WHS™ to include par-3 courses, making the Handicap Index® accessible to a wider range of golfers.</p>
<h2>Revised Handling of Unplayed Holes</h2>
<p>A revised method for handling holes not played will now use an expected score based on the player’s ability rather than a score of net par. This change will produce a more accurate Score Differential™, especially reflecting the growing trend of playing more 9-hole rounds.</p>
<h2>Adjustments in Playing Conditions Calculation</h2>
<p>The Playing Conditions Calculation (PCC) has been refined to more frequently adjust for abnormal playing conditions within GB&amp;I, ensuring that scores more accurately reflect the conditions under which they were played.</p>
<h2>Enhanced Guidance for Handicap Reviews</h2>
<p>The importance of regular Handicap Reviews is emphasized with the introduction of new reporting tools. These tools aim to assist committees in maintaining a Handicap Index® that truly reflects a player’s ability.</p>
<h2>Inclusion of Four Ball Better Ball Scores</h2>
<p>Four Ball Better Ball scores will now be included in the mandatory scores to be returned for handicapping in GB&amp;I, ensuring all competitions contribute to a player’s handicap in a timely and efficient manner.</p>
<h2>Course Handicap™ Adjustments</h2>
<p>Aligning with international standards, Course Handicaps will now be calculated relative to par, simplifying the understanding of what it means to &quot;play to handicap.&quot;</p>
<h2>Precision in Rounding</h2>
<p>For competition purposes, the exact, unrounded Course Handicap™ will be used in the Playing Handicap calculation starting April 2024, ensuring greater accuracy.</p>
<h2>Team Match Play Allowance Changes</h2>
<p>Allowances in team match play events have been adjusted to apply to the difference between team handicaps, refining the fairness and competitive balance of these events.</p>
<p>These updates are designed to make golf more enjoyable and fair for all players, reflecting the evolving ways the game is played around the world. Stay tuned to Golfify for further insights and developments.</p>
<p>Happy golfing!</p>


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