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Your Golf Friends Are the People on Your Card
Nobody starts a golf app with a friends list. On Swilkin it builds itself from your scorecards: play with someone, send them their record, and they are in.
Play a round with them for free
Day one on any app with a “Friends” tab is the same: an empty list and a search box. You are supposed to go and find people, one username at a time, before the app is any use.
Golf does not work like that, so Swilkin does not either. You already know who your golf friends are. They are the names on your scorecard.
You start by playing, not by searching
Add anyone to a round by first name and score away. They do not need the app, an account or an invitation.
That golfer is now someone you have played with. The buddies you played with most recently are one tap the next time you start a round.
Send them their record
Here is the part that makes it grow. The round you scored for a buddy is their round too: their holes, their score, their half of the head-to-head. Send them their record with one tap; they claim it, and every round you have played together is already on their account.
Nobody joins to an empty app. They join to their own golf, already there.
Until they claim it, what you typed about them (an email, a phone number, an index, only if you filled them in) is yours to edit.
Or start from your contacts
In the iPhone app, Friends has Find friends from your contacts. It lists the people in your contacts who are already on Swilkin, so you can add them, and puts an Invite beside everyone else that texts them your link. Your contacts are checked, never kept. (Step by step.)
What a friend sees
A finished round shows up in Home for anyone who is friends with a player on it. While a round is in play, people connected to someone on the card (a friend, or somebody they have played with) can watch it live. Your posts go to friends unless you pick Everyone or Only me, and your email, phone, and birthday reach friends only if you choose to share them.
Keeping the list tidy
- The same buddy twice. It happens: “Mike” one week and “Mike R.” the next. If you added both, merge them from the golfer’s profile page and their rounds and history fold into one. A claimed account only combines when that golfer agrees.
- The regulars. Star the people you play with most and mute the noisy ones from any golfer’s page; Home follows.
- The standing group. Make it a crew, and one tap adds everybody to a round.
And then it is a record
Once two of you have played a few times, Rivalries has something to say: your win-loss against each person, counted in matches, with every match behind the number.
The honest notes
- A buddy you added by name is a golfer on your account until they claim it. A golfer somebody else added is theirs to merge, not yours.
- Two golfers with the same name are two golfers. The app does not guess that they are one person.
Do my friends need the app? · open the app and your people’s golf is there · the group that plays every week