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Skins

A skins game that keeps its own count.

Score the round and the skins fall out of it: carryovers or dead holes, gross or net, any group size, and a line per skin when the round ends.

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The matches on one round in Swilkin. You're up $16; net skins at $5 a skin and a net Nassau against Webb & Nora, each with its scorecard, who paid what, and a way to flag something that looks offA skins game's result on a phone. You're up $30 with six net skins at $5 a skin, and a link to send each golfer not on Swilkin yet their spotPicking the game for a round on a phone: What are you playing? Just golf, then Match play, Best ball (four-ball), Nassau, Stroke play, Birdies & junk, Stableford, Wolf, Skins, and More games

When the round ends

A line per skin, with its hole and what carried into it.

The round's settle screen shows who pays who across every game on the card, and the running total updates as you score.

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

You keep the scores. It keeps the skins.

Carryovers, or dead holes

However your group plays a tied hole.

Gross or net

Net skins use each golfer's own strokes, per tee.

Any group size

Three of you or a whole field; in an event a side bet can run across groups.

A half stroke stays a half

On nine holes, skins keeps the half stroke rather than rounding it.

Stack it

A skins pot on top of a match, a Nassau or dots, all off the same card.

A ceiling, if you want one

Set the most anyone can lose on the bet.

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.

Your whole golf life, in one place →

A 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 record

Straight answers

What golfers ask before they try it

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.

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.

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.

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Skins on Swilkin, in detail

Skins is the easiest game in golf to explain and the most annoying one to keep. Win the hole outright and it is yours; tie it and it carries. By the 14th nobody is sure whether the next one is worth two or three, and the person holding the pencil has stopped enjoying the round.

If you searched for an app to keep a skins game, that is the whole job. Here is how Swilkin does it.

What it keeps

Skins with carryovers (or dead holes, if that is 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.

You do not keep the skins. You keep the scores, and the skins fall out of them.

A skins game's result on a phone. You're up $30 with six net skins at $5 a skin, and a link to send each golfer not on Swilkin yet their spot
A net skins game, settled: who took how many.

Net skins, done properly

Net skins only work if the strokes land on the right holes. Each golfer’s course handicap comes from their index, slope, and rating, per tee, so a group on different tees still gets an honest net. On nine holes, skins keeps a half stroke as a half stroke rather than rounding it.

When the round ends

The round’s settle screen has a line per skin, with its hole and what carried into it, and it shows who pays who across every game on the card. Swilkin never holds or moves the money.

Skins on top of something else

Skins is rarely the only game. Stack it on a match, a Nassau or a dots sheet on the same round and each settles off the same card. In an event, a skins pot can run between players in different groups.

The honest notes

And the rest of your golf

The skins game is one Saturday. The same card feeds your stats, your record against each of those golfers, and your group’s season. Your whole golf life, in one place.

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By the 14th, nobody should be counting carries.

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