The Nassau

A Nassau with the presses already counted.

Front, back, and total as three separate bets, every press its own line, match or medal, and who is up, as you play.

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While you play, and after

A live leg reads "2 up thru 12". A finished one is a line on the receipt.

A leg shows no money until it is decided. When the round ends there is a line per leg and per press, each press named for the hole it started on, and tapping a match replays it hole by hole.

Swilkin never holds or moves the money, and playing for stakes is 18 and over.

Say it on the first tee. The card remembers it.

Three bets, kept as three

One stake each, or a price per leg for the $5/$5/$10 crowd.

Match or medal

Each leg plays as a match or on total strokes.

Press with a tap

Or let each nine press itself at two down; the total is pressed by hand.

Presses on presses

A press that goes down can be pressed too.

Uneven sides

Two against three is fine: a stake per player or matched pots.

Three sides or more

A Nassau against every pair, or one medal Nassau across the field.

And the rest of your golf

It is one card. It feeds everything else.

Every round adds to your stats and to your win-loss against each golfer you play, and your people's rounds are there when you open the app.

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Straight answers

What golfers ask before they try it

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 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.

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 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.

A Nassau on Swilkin, in detail

A Nassau is easy on the first tee: front, back, total. It stops being easy the first time somebody presses, and by the 16th there are five bets running on a card with room for one.

If you searched for an app that keeps a Nassau, this is what Swilkin does with one.

Three bets, kept as three bets

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.

Front, back, and total, one line each.

Presses

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 total is pressed by hand, and a press that goes down can be pressed too.

Every press settles as its own line, named for the hole it started on.

Uneven sides

Two against three is fine. You choose a stake per player or matched pots, and odd pennies are split fairly.

While you play, and after

A leg shows no money until it is decided; a live match just reads “2 up thru 12”. When the round ends, the settle screen has a line per leg and per press, and tapping a match replays it hole by hole.

The honest notes

A match-play leg keeps a half stroke on nine holes; a stroke leg rounds it. The game decides, not a setting.
A bet plays off the low handicap by default, and says so; one switch gives everybody their full handicap.
Swilkin never holds or moves the money, and money is 18 and over.

And the rest of your golf

The Nassau is one game on one card. That card also feeds your stats, your record against each golfer on it, and your group’s season. Your whole golf life, in one place.

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Five bets on a card with room for one.

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