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For you, your buddies & your club

Your whole golf life: the rounds, the people, your club.

Score every round with whoever you play with. Nobody else needs the app. It keeps the record, the stats, and who beat who, and your people's golf is there when you open it.

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✓ Free for golfers, not a trial.

The live scorecard on a phone. Holes 8 to 13 of a best ball match, birdies circled and bogeys boxed, you up $2 so far, You & Nora 1 up on Tommy & TonyA golfer's own page. Handicap index 8.4, an 83.9 scoring average, best round 76, eleven birdies, doors to stats, rivalries, the week, the year, and the bag, and the rounds on recordYour rivalries on an iPhone. Your match record against each golfer you have played, and your record with each partner

Everything that makes a round more fun

The stuff golfers actually want, not another GPS app.

Every round, kept

Nine or eighteen, scored hole by hole from one phone or everyone's own, or posted afterwards off the paper card. Add anyone by name; they never need the app.

Records that follow you

Your scoring average, your best round, and a head-to-head record against everyone you play, with a shareable burn card when you take one down.

Any game your group plays

1v1, 2v2, a lopsided 3-vs-4 or all-vs-all: match, Nassau, skins, stableford or a scramble, gross or net. Play for something and each round settles itself on its own receipt, itemized to the penny.

When you play for something

Any matchup. The classic games. One tap.

1v1, 2v2, a lopsided 3-vs-4, best-ball teams, or all-vs-all (1 v 2, 1 v 3, 2 v 3): match, Nassau, skins, stableford or a scramble, gross or net. Throw dots on top, press from the turn, and Swilkin settles it instantly.

Then it shows you where every dollar went: front, back, each press, each kind of dot, itemized to the penny. Tap any match to replay it hole by hole: who won each hole, who went up or down.

See every game and how it settles → · what to ask of any golf betting app →

Settle up for a finished round at Augusta Country Club on an iPhone. Up $19 on the day: Tommy or Tony pays you $19, the Nassau’s $15 plus $4 from the best ball, then the Nassau leg by leg and the best ball, each with what every side won A Nassau opened to its hole-by-hole replay. You & Nora taking the front 1 up, the back 1 up and the total 3&2, a strip of holes 1 to 16 marking who won each hole and the running score (all square after the 4th and the 7th, 3 up after the 16th), each swing told in a line, and what each golfer won or lost
A wrong score fixed on the card re-settles every bet.

Stats

See where you're actually losing shots.

Fairways, greens, putts, and 3-putts: tracked from the rounds you already score. Then we show you how you stack up against your handicap level, so you know what to practice.

And it's honest about it: a tendency only shows once Swilkin has seen enough holes to mean it: a bad hole you played once is a coincidence, not a weakness, and we won't call it one.

Practice

Your rounds pick the drill.

Log a session in minutes, follow a plan of drills on the days you pick, and chase a weekly goal.

How practice works →

Practice on a phone: this week 90 of 180 minutes, three weeks in a row at goal, today’s Ball striking plan done; from your rounds, 73% of practice is range while the rounds lose most on the green (34 putts a round, typically 33 for a 10-handicap), with the 3-6-9 ladder to add to a plan or log

Your golf life

Golf that doesn't stop at the 18th.

The round ends. The group doesn't. Swilkin keeps it going all week: this is the part a GPS app never had. Home and your people →

Home is your people's golf

Open the app and it's one stream: whatever needs you on top, then the rounds, posts, and photos from the people you actually play with. Double-tap to like, leave a comment, and give whoever three-putted the last a hard time.

Follow along from the couch

Can't make the tee time? Watch a buddy's round unfold: leaders, thru, and to-par, updating on its own while you're off the course.

Your season, on replay

A Weekly Rewind every Sunday and a Season Wrapped to cap the year, plus a tap on the shoulder when somebody comments on your round.

Coaching

Every lesson, still there next week.

After a lesson, send your student a note with photos, a swing clip and links, and turn it into a practice plan. They read it in the app or by email, and you see the homework they log.

Lessons with a pro → · Coach a team →

A lesson note on a phone, to Jordan Okafor, lesson 5: what we worked on (start line fixed, 24 of 30 through the gate; a pull with the driver when the top is rushed), Add photos and Add a clip, three links, and Send to Jordan

For whoever runs the event

Run your club championship and your league

Open sign-ups with a link, a field cap and a waitlist. Lay out the tee sheet (one tee, a split tee or a shotgun) and email the times to the field. Put the live board on the clubhouse TV as the groups post. A league is a season of weekly rounds whose standings update as each week posts, and the championship weekend crowns the gross champion, the net winner and every flight off the same cards.

Your club gets its own home page: a real multi-page site at its own short address, app.swilkin.com/yourclub, in your colors, with your photos, six designed looks, and pages you manage. The live leaderboard, the winners' circle, even the Calcutta payout board publish straight to it, and Swilkin stays in the footer. Yours in five minutes.

Underneath it, everything a club, a charity scramble, or a company outing needs to ditch the poster board: the leaderboard that fills the clubhouse TV, Calcuttas, registration, tee sheets, and group scoring links. And bring your history with you: type in your past champions (no old scorecards required) and your winners' circle is up on your site from day one.

Set up your event
Clubs & committees Championships and member-guests: make it feel like a major. Weekly leagues A season that keeps its own standings, and a champion with a record. Charity scrambles One event a year, volunteers, zero manuals: big-time on the banquet TV. The golf trip Two teams, a cup, and every side bet settled the day it was played.
A club championship board on a clubhouse television: the club's own crest beside the event, and the Men's Championship board with Tom Sullivan the champion at six under, the field below him
The clubhouse-TV board: light, clean, and branded to your event.

Tournaments within tournaments

One field. Every championship.

Score the round once. Name the boards your event needs (flights, a women's championship, even a final-round shootout) and say which ones crown a winner. Every board runs off the same cards, live. One player's card can count in four races at once.

One event's leaderboard with its boards open: the men's and women's championships, the net championship, the women's net, and a Sunday shootout
One event → many competitions, all off the same round.
The same player's expanded scorecards inside the net championship: stroke dots on handicap holes, net birdies circled
Same cards, different race: tap any row anywhere. Here he's T3 in the net championship, stroke dots and all.

Leagues & the weekly game

Your league, without the Thursday-morning spreadsheet.

A league is a season of rounds. Each week scores like any round, and the standings update as it posts: by finishing position, on your own points table, or counting only each golfer's best weeks.

A link signs people up, with a cap and a waitlist if you want one. The week's board and the season race go up on the TV, and anyone can open them from the group text with no login.

Run your league on Swilkin → · or just the group that plays every week →

The Wednesday Night League on an iPhone. Live, every round added up: Mark Goshdigian leads at 4 under net, Carson Spears second at plus 5

Four steps to a round that counts

1

Where you're playing

Pick the course: 9 or 18. It picks the tees for you.

2

Golfers and the game

Add anyone by name. Nobody else needs the app. Tees and strokes fill themselves in, and the game, the teams, and the bets go on the same screen.

3

Score it

Hole by hole on your phone: live match status, presses, and dots as they happen.

4

Walk off 18

The round is in your record and your stats, and your head-to-heads update on their own. Played for something? One receipt, to the penny, with a pay button on it.

Why I'm building this

Built by a golfer (a dad, between rounds) for golfers.

I've got a day job and kids, and I still play competitively. I just never stopped loving this game. Swilkin started as a passion project I chipped away at between rounds: I wanted the round-with-your-buddies part of golf to be handled by something so simple even my dad could use it, instead of a napkin and a group text. It just kept going.

And yes. It's really free. Not a trial, not "free to start": no ads, no paywall on the stuff that matters, no "upgrade to see who owes who." I pay the server bills out of pocket, because I'd rather build the best golf app in the world and earn a way to keep it running later than nickel-and-dime the people using it now.

If something's missing, or not quite how your group plays it, tell me. I read every note, and I'm here to make it right.

Your Saturday game deserves better than a napkin.

Free for golfers, and free for clubs and charities. Add your buddies, play a round, keep the record.

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