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Ask us →Keeping score
Can it keep score for a normal round with my buddies? That's the heart of it. Start a round (9 holes, front or back, or 18), add your buddies (no app required on their end), and score hole-by-hole from one phone or everyone's own. Each golfer's tee and strokes fill themselves in, and the card does the math: gross, net, who's up. Can we play a scramble? Yes. On Start a round, tap Game: Scramble, Shamble, Alternate shot, and Greensomes are under More games, with Stableford and Best ball (four-ball) on the list, and the scoring screen fits itself to the pick. Best ball (four-ball) is one game for any number of teams: you say how many scores count on each hole (1, 2, or All) and, if you like, holes that count a different number, and two teams can play it as Match play or Stroke play. The one-ball formats take the published team allowance, while a shamble keeps each player's own handicap and ball, with the number of balls that count up to you. Match play is a game on a casual round; in an event it runs as a team cup or a knockout bracket. My wife and I play together: is this a guys-only thing? Not even slightly. Every format works for every group: ladies' nines, couples games, mixed events, junior scrambles. Tees, handicaps, and competitions all respect how your group actually plays. Can I post a round I already played? Yes. Post a round takes any past date. Enter it hole by hole and it counts toward your stats like a round you scored live; a total-only post counts as a round played but stays out of your scoring average, best round and birdie counts. If a game was on it, pick the game first (the same games, sides, and prices as Start a round) and it settles off the holes the moment you post. Does it know my course? Search any course: slope, rating, and tees import automatically. When you open it, the course you're standing on comes up first, with the ones around you under it. Your favourites, your recent courses, and where your people play sit right under it, so it's usually one tap. If we're missing one, add it yourself and it's on your list every time you play it. Can everyone score from their own phone? Yes. One link (or a short code) opens your group's card on every phone, and scores sync live. One person can also just score for the cart. No accounts needed to punch numbers, and the page carries no app chrome and no tracking. It starts on the group's first hole, so a group off the 12th enters 12 first, and a group keeps its code when you retime or regroup. Does it work on the course with bad signal? Scores you punch queue up and sync when signal returns; the card never blocks you mid-hole. Everything you tap on the card is held (scores, team scores, dots, your stats, a wolf pick, a hammer) and survives a reload; on the no-login group link the scores, team scores and dots are held, though putts there want signal. Other phones catch up once it sends. Starting a round, settling up, and signing up for an event need a connection, and the card needs one to open in the first place. (Live boards for spectators need a connection on their end, of course.) Does it replace our paper scorecard? It can, or ride along. Plenty of groups keep paper in the cart and post it at the 19th hole with Post a round (totals, hole by hole, or a photo of the card), which keeps the history and the stats. If money was riding on it, pick the game on Post a round before the scores, the same games as Start a round, enter the card hole by hole, and the games settle off it. Can it print scorecards? Yes. Print cards on a round's groups gives you a full card per group, or compact slips many to a page. Each card comes off the round: par, stroke index, the tee, the tee time, the group's names, and each golfer's shots marked on the holes they fall, with Scorer and Attest lines at the bottom. Every group's card carries a QR code and a short code, so one person scans it and scores the whole group with no account. If the tee has no stroke index on file, the card says it's gross instead of printing an empty row. Can it pick the teams for us? For an event, yes: the field's teams draw balanced by handicap or at random, and Auto-assign lays out the tee groups by handicap, leaders last, at random, or in entry order. Nothing is final: drag a name, or tap a team's + Add and tap players in. On a casual round, Balance by index deals even sides by handicap, or tap a name and then the team it goes on; with more than one group the setup lays the groups out, and a name moves to another group the same way. Can we play a quota game? Yes. Quota is a switch on a Stableford game or board. Each golfer's target comes off their own strokes and the points ladder in use: 36 minus their course handicap on the standard scale, minus their strokes on modified, and worked out the same way on a custom ladder your club sets (double, bogey, par, birdie, eagle). A golfer with no index gets the scratch quota, never the easiest one. Points are computed from the score, so an albatross pays 5 on standard and 8 on modified, and the card, the board, and the bets all score a hole the same way. A team counting fewer balls than it has is held against the counted balls' own targets, hole by hole. Points show live as you enter scores. Can it read a paper scorecard from a photo? Yes, after the round, pick A photo of the card on Post a round, or open a round's own card, photograph the paper one and the app reads it and proposes the scores. Every cell is editable, the reads it's unsure of are flagged, and nothing saves until you confirm. It also checks the card's written totals against what the holes add up to. Nine or eighteen, any size of group. On a round's own card it matches each row only to a golfer already on it and never invents a player; posting a round, you say whose each row is and can add a golfer the card has. On a round's card the offer shows while two holes or fewer are scored, and not on a scramble. Three scans a day for a golfer; event scoring staff get a hundred. Is there an Android app? No native Android app yet: the web app works in any phone's browser, Android or iPhone, and everything in it is the same app. Does it have a GPS rangefinder? No, there's no rangefinder or shot tracking on the course. Fairways, greens, and putts are tapped in by hand, and GPS is only used to find courses near you. Can I book a tee time? No, Swilkin doesn't book tee times with a course. A Who's in? gets your group together, and an organizer can set tee times for an event's groups.
Handicaps
Does it do handicaps? Course handicap from your index, slope and rating: per tee, with strokes falling on the right holes, so everyone can play different tees and the net math stays honest. A plus handicap gives strokes back on the easiest holes. We don't calculate the index itself: you type your WHS or GHIN number on your profile, or set it on a buddy you added, or type the course handicap someone plays off. The strokes are set on the round, so changing an index later doesn't move a round already under way. A tee with no slope and rating gives nobody strokes from an index, and if the round's tee doesn't rank its holes, a net bet settles as scratch and says why. Can a 9-hole round have handicaps? Yes. A nine plays off half your course handicap. We hold one rating per tee, not a separate nine-hole one, and the game decides what happens to a half stroke: match play, Nassau, skins, wolf, and the other hole-against-hole games keep it; stroke play, stableford, and vegas round it. A Nassau follows its legs: match legs keep the half, stroke legs round it. A half that's kept lands on exactly one hole, the next-hardest after the full strokes. A leaderboard always rounds, so a nine-hole board and a nine-hole match between the same golfers can sit half a stroke apart. Does it apply handicap allowances? For the one-ball formats, automatically: foursomes 50/50, greensomes 60/40, and a scramble 35/15 for two, 30/20/10 for three and 25/20/15/10 for four, the biggest share on the lowest handicap. A bigger one-ball side gets a warning on screen that its split is your committee's call. The percentage rows (95% singles, 90% four-ball) are a committee decision, so an event's board uses whatever number the organizer sets, 100% unless they change it. A side bet never takes an event's allowance: it plays gross or net, off the low handicap by default (the bet says so), with one switch for everybody's full handicap, or a number of shots you type for any golfer. Everyone's strokes show before a ball is struck, and if a handicap is corrected later the bet keeps its number until somebody taps the new one across. Can it estimate my handicap if I don't have an official one? No, Swilkin is not a handicap authority: it does not calculate an index and does not post scores to GHIN. Type your WHS or GHIN index on your profile and every net score, board, and bet uses it. Without one you play off scratch, and the app says so rather than guessing a number for you. You can keep your GHIN number on your profile; nothing is sent anywhere.
Bets & money
Can it handle skins? Yes: skins with carryovers (or dead holes, if that's how your group plays it), gross or net, for any group size. Set the stake on the first tee and the running total updates as you score. What betting games does it know? Match play, Nassau (with presses), skins, stroke play, stableford (straight or modified), wolf, nines, vegas, rabbit, aces, and hammer, plus a dots sheet for greenies, sandies and the like, which is a pot rather than a game. Stack as many as you want on one round and the engine settles every one off the card. Those are all of them: a game that isn't on this list isn't one we settle. Nines is exactly three players, 5-3-1 with the ties split; rabbit pays whoever holds it at the 9th and the 18th; aces and deuces settle hole by hole; and a hammer is thrown, accepted or given right on the scoring screen, with an undo. Can we press a Nassau? Yes. Press any leg by hand with a tap, or set the bet to press itself when a side goes down: two down unless you pick another number. On a Nassau each nine presses itself and the Nassau, the overall leg, is pressed by hand. A straight match presses the same way, and a press that goes down gets pressed too. Every press settles as its own line on the receipt, named for the hole it started on, so nobody argues in the parking lot. What kind of Nassau can we play? Front, back, and total are three separate bets. The stake is one number each ("a $10 Nassau") or a price per leg for the $5/$5/$10 crowd, and each leg plays as a match or on total strokes. With three sides or more it becomes a Nassau against every pair, or one medal Nassau across the whole field. A nine-hole Nassau is a single leg. Can it settle the money at the end? One tap. Each round's Settle up shows exactly who pays who across every game on it, and that's the whole of it: the money is settled at the round, so nothing carries into the next one and there's nothing to mark as paid. Pay opens Venmo, PayPal, or Cash App with the amount filled in, whichever the person you owe has put a handle on. The round's settle screen reads like a receipt: a line per leg and per press, a line per skin with its hole and what carried, a line per wolf or Vegas hole, and each dot pot with the counts beside the names. A leg shows no money until it's decided: a live match just reads "2 up thru 12". It leads with what you're up or down, then who you collect from and who you pay, one row each: tap a row for the games that made it. The bets the whole group plays show what each golfer puts in or takes out, and a team bet says it side to side: "Team 1 pays Team 2 $30" and what each golfer's share is. Every score re-settles every bet, a bet added or changed mid-round settles on the spot, and tapping a match replays it hole by hole. Does Swilkin hold the money? No, and it never will. Swilkin never holds, transfers, or processes money. It keeps the score and shows every dollar's path; the money moves between you: Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, or a beer. We're the scorekeeper, not the bank. Can two teams of three play against each other? Yes. Teams don't have to be even. For money matches you choose per-man stakes (the default) or matched pots, and the engine splits odd pennies fairly. Three sides or more? A match or a Nassau settles every pair: 1 v 2, 1 v 3, 2 v 3. And call your sides what you call them; the names ride every summary and the season ledger. Can the loser of the bet pay through the app? The settle screen opens Venmo, PayPal or Cash App with the amount already filled in, whichever the person you owe has put a handle on. If you're the one owed, Request asks through Venmo when they have a Venmo handle. Swilkin never touches the money; it just makes paying up one tap. Can I mark a bet as paid? There's nothing to mark. A round's settle screen says who won what that day and puts the pay button right there; once you've seen it, that money is settled. Nothing carries into the next round, nothing sits outstanding, and nobody is chased. Can we play junk: greenies, sandies, barkies? Yes. A dots sheet rides on any round. Six come ready: birdie (auto from your score, an eagle counts 2), greenie (closest on a par 3), sandie (par after a bunker), barkie (par after a tree), snake (a 3-putt, the fewest collects) and long drive (longest in the fairway on one hole). Adding a match to a round also offers two one-tap packs, Bingo Bango Bongo and Trouble (water, OB, lost ball: that one costs whoever taps it), and your group can type a dot of its own and say whether it pays or costs. Set the dot value and the pot tallies, or play them for nothing, and they still tally. Each pot settles pair by pair on the difference in counts. Every bet picks its own sides, so birdies can be a team pot, where a side pools its count, while greenies go every golfer for themselves. Can we cap how much anyone can lose? Yes. Set a Max loss on the game when you set up the round (Max per player when you add a match later) and nobody loses more than that; the shortfall comes off the winners in proportion. Why don't I see any money in the app? Money is 18+, so it needs a date of birth on file, and the figures stay out of the way until you've played for money yourself. You can also hide them any time with the "Hide money" setting in your profile.
Stats & rivalries
Can I see my lifetime record against a buddy? That's Rivalries. Your win-loss record against everyone you've played, all-time, counted in matches: each match is won the way its own game says, so 3–0 is 3–0 whether they were net or gross. Tap a name for the head-to-head behind the number: every match you've played, your current streak, and the money on those matches if you play for it (a team match counts for what it was worth a man), filterable by season, 12 months, or 90 days. Records update themselves as scores change, and you can share the head-to-head as a card when you take one down. Does it track my stats? Scoring average, best round, birdies and eagles, and, when you track them, fairways, greens, and putts, with honest benchmarks for your handicap. It reads those numbers back to you too (which side you miss fairways, how often you three-putt, how the birdies-to-doubles spread is running) alongside your trend against earlier rounds and your weeks-in-a-row streak. Stats only count rounds you actually logged. A nine counts toward your rounds, birdies and fairway, green and putt stats; scoring average and best round come from full eighteens. Can I see how I compare to other golfers my handicap? Once your index is on your profile and you've tracked a few rounds, your stats page lines your fairways, greens, putts, and 3-putts up against the typical ranges for that handicap band, so "what should I work on" has a real answer. No index on file, no comparison: we won't invent a handicap to measure you against. Is there a year-in-review? Yes. Season Wrapped is your year in golf, ready to share. Rewind recaps your week (two rounds or more), your month and your year on a Sunday evening.
Your crew
Do my friends need the app to play? No. Add anyone by first name and score away: the buddies you play with most recently are one tap, and you can add a golfer mid-round too (though not onto a scramble's one ball). What you type about them (email, phone, index, GHIN, gender, birthday, only if you fill them in) is yours to edit until they join. Later, send them their record with one tap. They claim it and every round you've played together is already on their account. Can people follow along from home? For an event, yes: share the board link or put the TV board up, and anyone can watch it in a browser with no app and no login, unless the organizer made the event private. A casual round in play shows live to anyone connected to someone on the card (a friend, or somebody they've played with) and everyone else can open its link once the round is done. Can we attach photos to a round? Yes. Anyone in the round can add photos, tag who's in them, and they show up on the round's post in Home and on profiles. A photo doesn't need a round, either: ＋ on Home, then Photo, posts one on its own. Tagged people can always remove their own tag. What's the feed on the home screen? Home is one stream. Whatever needs you sits on top (a round to finish, a tee time, an event waiting on you) and under it is everyone's golf, yours included: rounds, posts, and events, ranked by who you actually play with, and searchable. Double-tap to like, talk trash in the comments, and tune it from any golfer's page: star the regulars, mute the noisy ones. You're told when somebody comments on your round, or answers or likes something you said. Can I fix it when the same buddy exists twice? Yes, if you added both of them: merge them from the golfer's profile page and their rounds, bets and history fold into one golfer. A golfer somebody else added is theirs to merge, and a claimed account only combines when that golfer agrees. Can we run the same game every Saturday without setting it up again? Yes. Tap Play it again on a past round's card, or Run it back on Start a round, and the setup refills with that round's golfers, course, tees, teams, and games (presses left off); check it and tap Start round. Or tap Save this game to use again, and next time it is one tap. Can I organize who's coming on Saturday? Start a "Who's in?" from Play or Home: a name and a day is all it needs (add a course, the game, when answers close, and how many spots if you like). Share one link: people tap In or Out, signed in or with just their name (and a handicap on a net game), no app needed, and everyone with the link sees the list. Past the spots, an In goes on a waiting list and moves up when someone drops out. When you're ready, Start the round opens the setup with everyone who's in already on it. Next week, Run it back starts a new outing from this one; a crew's link stays the same every week. Can we make our regular group official? Make it a Crew: your Saturday game, the trip guys, the ladies' nine. One tap adds the whole crew to a round, and the crew learns how often you play (weekly, every other week, monthly) from the gaps between rounds. Its season page shows rounds, your net, and your record, money, and last meeting with each regular, plus the longest streak and the biggest day, this season or all-time. Where money's in play, guests who joined show as one row: how many, and their combined net. Can I just type out the game? No, the setup is one screen of taps instead: the course, your golfers, the game from a list, and what it's played for, each one tap. Run it back or a saved game sets the whole thing up in one. How does it play wolf? Four to six golfers. The wolf rotates with your tee order, and after each hole you tap who the wolf took (or Lone, or Blind) right on the scoring screen. Play it for dots or for dollars: a partner hole is worth one, a lone wolf double and a blind wolf triple by default, and you can set lone anywhere from ×2 to ×4 and blind from ×3 to ×6. Every hole shows on the receipt ("Hole 7: Jack lone"). How does it play Vegas? Two teams of two. It refuses any other shape. Each side's two scores pair into one number, low score first; a birdie flips the other side's number, and a 10 or worse flips your own, both always on. Every hole shows on the receipt ("Hole 7: 45 v 54 (birdie flip!)"). Vegas has no ceiling on what it can cost, and the round's Matches page says so: the same banner that shows the worst case on the games that have a limit.
Events, leagues & trips
Can it run a real tournament? Yes: sign-ups with a waitlist, field management, flights (re-flighted after a round if you want), cuts, tee times or a shotgun (emailed to the field), side bets between players, even across groups, live leaderboards, a big-screen TV board, and a public event page your players can find. While it plays you see which groups are posting, and an Official on your club's staff can lock or reopen a round. Next year's edition can start with the series' roster already seated. Built for the events Golf Genius prices out. Can players sign themselves up for my event? Yes. Open sign-ups with a shareable link, opening and closing on the schedule you set, a field cap with an automatic waitlist, handicap limits if you want them, and team sign-ups for pairs events. No anonymous entries: whoever registers is signed in, and the teammates they enter by name become claimable golfers, not blanks. Add your own questions (tees, shirt size, anything), each required or optional and answered per player, and export the roster to a spreadsheet. A waitlisted golfer is told their place in line; whenever a seat opens, the longest-waiting alternate moves into the field and is told. An alternate isn't carded until then. Can we collect entry fees? No. Swilkin never takes a payment for entries, bets or anything else. You can state the fee on the event and your club's site shows it as an Entry Fee row; collecting it is up to you. Can we do flights? Yes. An event is the boards you define: flights by handicap, by tee, or however your field splits, and each flight races only itself. A board that ranks everyone together is there only if you add one, and a board crowns a winner only if you say so. One card counts on every board it belongs to. Tap any row on a board to open that golfer's card, strokes marked. Can it show a leaderboard on the clubhouse TV? Every event has a full-bleed TV board: open it on any browser, cast it, and it updates live as groups post. Light by default, or themed to your event's look: Magnolia, Patriot, Midnight, and more. It pages through the field on its own, and left alone it cycles through every board (each flight, the order of merit, the cup) and adding ?board= to the link pins one. A club can also run one channel that rotates every board it has live, starting in the next 24 hours or finished in the last 48, and shows the reigning champion, the order of merit and the next event when nothing's on. A draft or private event never appears there. Can I put our live board on our own website? Yes. Copy embed code in the event's settings puts one iframe on your clipboard, already sized and titled; paste it into any page you have. It refreshes about once a minute and carries none of the app's navigation. It shows what the public board shows, so a private event's won't open. Can we play a Ryder Cup? Yes, two teams or more. Make the event's game Match Play (or a Points Match), and one tap draws the field into handicap-balanced teams; then rename them and move anyone across. Each round keeps its own format, and the organizer pairs each round: singles or pairs, a match's golfers on one card. Matches play net or gross and close out the real way (3&2), a halved match splits its points (8½–6½), the event page leads with the cup score and every match's live status, and the cup takes its turn on the TV board. Can it run a match-play bracket? Yes: a seeded single-elimination bracket, byes handled, and winners advancing. It lives in the organizer's setup screens, though: there's no public bracket page, TV slot or embed, so the draw gets shared as a screenshot. Can it run a season-long league? Yes: points leagues and team match-play round-robins, with season standings that update as each week posts. A league is just a season of rounds; Swilkin keeps the running score. Can a league use a points table? Yes. Set the points for each finishing position (halves are fine), count every week or only a golfer's best N with your own N; a tied week is placed by the event's own tie-breaks, and golfers they leave level share the points. The scheme can sit on the whole event or on one board of it. The order of merit shows each golfer's points and wins, with the scheme's rules written above the table. Can my club have its own page? Yes. Clubs, series, and events each get a real public page at app.swilkin.com/yourclub: your colors, your photos, your champions wall, live boards, and one of six designed looks (links, daylight, fairway, scorecard, clubhouse, or midnight) or your own colours, fonts, and custom CSS. It's as many pages as you want (home, competitions, champions, members, rules) and it goes live when you publish it. The blocks fill themselves from your events: what's on, live boards, sign-ups, tee times, the winners' circle, the order of merit, the Calcutta payout, and up to 24 sponsor logos to a block. It lives at app.swilkin.com/yourclub; there's no custom domain. Yours, not ours. Swilkin stays in the footer. Do champions get remembered? Forever. When an event hands out awards, they go to the golfer: the event's winners' circle shows every jacket by name and year, the jacket sits in the golfer's own trophy case, and your club's page lists its champions. Older years you can type straight in, no scorecards needed: each champion goes up as a golfer, and the jacket joins their record when they claim it. An award carries your own name and your own picture, emoji or drawing; the winners' circle ranks golfers by how many they've won. Each year's board marks only that year's champions. Can it do a calcutta? Yes. Keep the lot board as the auction runs, track who bought whom and for how much, and the payout math settles itself off the final board. The purse is the bids plus any added money, less side prizes and expenses, paid out by your split to the cent. The bidding itself is yours to run; Swilkin keeps the book. Put a Calcutta block on your club's site and it publishes the pot and every paying place: team, buyer, amount. Can it handle a golf trip? Yes. A trip is just a series: multiple rounds over the week, running team points (Ryder-cup style if you want), and a crew to keep the same group together. Each round's money is settled on that round's own settle screen. Can organizers stop players from seeing scores mid-round? Yes. An event can hide other groups' scores during play so the finish stays dramatic, then reveal the board at the end. How do ties get broken? A casual round settles a tie for first hole by hole, backward from the last hole both golfers played. Running an event you pick the ways and their order at setup: a playoff you record, countback hole by hole or by the last 9, 6, 3, and 1, head-to-head where the tied played each other, or your own call (a chip-off, a coin flip, closest to the pin), and whether they break only a tie for 1st or every tie. The board shows only the place: 1, 2, T3; a tie nothing breaks is shared. Can it run a shotgun start? Yes. For an event, pick one tee, a split tee or a shotgun and it lays the groups out: one tee stacks them at your interval, a split tee alternates the first hole and the middle of the round (the 10th on eighteen), and a shotgun sends every group off at once, one per hole plus a second on a par 4 or 5 when the field needs it. A field too big to seat is refused with the count and the two fixes. On any round with groups, set a first time and an interval and the sheet fills itself: shuffle it, move a group, open a gap, or type over any time. An event's tee times can be emailed to the field; anyone with no email on file is skipped.
Straight answers
What happens if someone enters a wrong score? Until the round is finished, anyone on the card just fixes it. Once whoever runs the scoring taps Finish, the card is locked: anyone on it can propose a correction, and whoever runs the scoring approves it or keeps the card as it is. If it's kept, you can ask for another look: then either everyone on the card agrees, or someone on it who isn't part of the argument makes the call. Every downstream number, bets included, recomputes, and every changed hole is logged with who changed it. A correction can carry a photo of the paper card, and everyone on the card hears when one lands. In an event, a DQ, a withdrawal, or a no-show is a status with a reason, never a deletion. What if we disagree about a bet? Raise a dispute right on the bet: your note goes on it verbatim, the disputed money drops out of the totals until it's fixed, and anyone on the bet can correct the setup. Honest numbers only. Can I cancel a round that shouldn't count? Whoever started the round can delete it: the round, its scores, its bets, and its post all go, and there's no undo. Before you confirm, it shows you what the other golfers put on it. Can kids use it? Yes. A junior does everything except play for stakes, cash or beers. Playing for stakes is 18+. You can still set up any match. Scoring, stats, events, and every match on the list work the same. A junior can even be on a match the adults are playing for money, a parent and child against another pair, and they play for their side without owing or collecting anything, and never see a figure. A match played for something needs someone of age on at least two sides, so a parent against their own child plays it as a friendly match. The date of birth on file is what answers it, and it is also how the age limits an organizer sets (junior, senior) find the right golfers. I got an email asking if I'm a child's parent. What is it? A pro wants to teach your child, or a coach added them to a team, and a golfer under 18 needs a parent's yes first. The email carries only the coach's name and your child's first name. Saying yes takes a Swilkin account of your own, 18 or over, and your child's birthday. If you aren't their parent, say so, and that coach can't email you about them again. What does a parent approve? One coach at a time: a pro's lessons, or a place on a team. Until you say yes, nothing from that coach reaches your child and the coach can't open their page. After it, that coach sees your child's golf. Your child's own practice stays private from a pro until you switch on sharing in Your golfers; your child can ask you to, once. If your child is 13 or over, you can send them their own invite. What happens if my child is under 13? Swilkin accounts are for golfers 13 and over. A younger golfer can still be on any card, added by name, and a pro or a team can still have them once you say yes. If the birthday you give says under 13 and your child already has an account, the account closes: their golfer stays with you, their lessons carry on, and every round they played stays whole for the others on it. Can my child play for money? No. Stakes (cash or beers) are 18 and over. Your child can play any match, and can even be on your side of a match the adults are playing for money: they play for the side, never owe or collect anything, and never see a figure. Can I change my answer as a parent? Yes. Your golfers, on your You page, lists every pro and team you said yes to, each with End; ending one stops that coach seeing your child's golf. Sharing your child's practice with a pro switches off there too. If you said you aren't the parent by mistake, the link in the email has Undo. Who can see my child's golf? Under 18, your child's page, rounds, and stats open to them, golfers they've played with, their friends, their club's staff, and the coaches, team, and parents who said yes, not to strangers, and never in a stranger's search. On a card or a board with other golfers, their row shows their name and scores, with no photo and no link to their page. How much does it cost? Free for golfers: scoring, bets, stats, rivalries, all of it. Running an event is free too: sign-ups, boards, leagues, all of it. No card, no per-event fee, and no trial that ends. Nobody in your foursome pays to get charged a skin. Is my data private? Scores are open, and most of what you write isn't. Once a round is done, anyone holding its link can read the card, with no login, and the captions golfers wrote on it unless the round is private, kept out of friends' feeds or hiding its scores while it's played; while it's being played, only people connected to someone on it can see it. A finished round shows up in Home for anyone who's friends with a player on it, unless that player turned off Show in friends' feeds for it: then it's still there for anyone who looks. Posts go to friends unless you pick Everyone or Only me. Your email, phone, and birthday reach your friends only if you choose to share them, and your GHIN number stays yours alone. You can export everything you own as JSON or delete your account in-app; your rounds stay on your buddies' cards, with no account behind them. Who does Swilkin share my data with? Only the services that run it: Railway hosts it, Cloudflare stores files, Resend sends email, and Google or Apple only if you sign in with one. A scorecard you photograph, a question you type into Ask and a round you describe in words go to Anthropic (Claude) to be read, and what you typed is kept with your account so we can see what people ask for. Passwords are stored only as a hash. The app emails only what it has to: password resets, confirmations, an email change, tee times, an organizer's event invitation, and a buddy's claim link. swilkin.com counts page reads with no cookie and nothing stored on your device. Is this a gambling app? No. Swilkin is your golf life: the rounds, the people, the club. The money layer just keeps score of the games your group already plays, between yourselves; nothing is wagered through the app and Swilkin never holds a dollar.