The scorecard, handled.
Backbeat Golf keeps score for your group with big keys built for a moving cart and a gloved hand. Par is already suggested for every golfer, so if the whole group made par, one tap saves the hole. Free on iPhone and Android.
Differences caught on the spot.
Each golfer can score on his own phone. If Tom enters a 4 for Bob and Bob entered a 5, Backbeat catches it the moment Tom saves the hole and asks which is right. No arguments at the 18th green, and nobody signs a card that doesn’t match.
Tom’s phone
Bob’s phone
Your games and your wallet, handled.
Set the games and the stakes before the first tee. Backbeat keeps the running count as you play, shows every hole’s result, and settles up at the end: who pays whom, to the dollar, with the math one tap away.
- Skins
- Nassau
- Wolf
- Vegas
- Sixes
- Nines
- Snake
- Rabbit
- Hammer
- Junk
- Bingo Bango Bongo
- Stableford
Know where your game is headed.
Set a goal for the numbers you care about: score, putts, greens, fairways. After every round Backbeat shows which goals you met and how close you came on the rest. Your last rounds sit beside each goal, so you can see the trend at a glance.
Putts, fairways and greens are one extra tap per hole, and only if you want them.
Book the time. Backbeat fills the seats.
Two open spots on Saturday? Tap Invite a group, pick the group, and send. All fifty hear at once, and the first to tap I’m in take the seats. Anyone who answers late simply sees they’re taken. No group texts, no keeping track, no telling a friend he missed out.
Built to be trusted with your card and your wallet.
Every score is checked.
When two phones disagree on a hole, Backbeat stops and asks which score is right, before anyone signs.
Nothing gets lost.
Each hole is saved as you go. If the signal drops on the back nine, scores wait on the phone and go through when it returns.
Nothing is final until you sign.
Each golfer reviews and signs his own card. Fix any hole before then.
Every dollar shows its work.
Tap any hole to see who won it and why. The settle-up adds up to the dollar.
Handicaps you can follow.
Tap any golfer’s handicap to see how it was worked out: his index, the tees, the strokes he gets.
A real person answers.
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How it works
- 1
Get the app
Free on iPhone and Android. Sign in with your email.
- 2
Start the round
Tap New Round, then Play now. Pick the course, your tees and who you’re playing with.
- 3
Play
Score each hole as you go. When the last hole is in, everyone signs his card.
Your board runs the season. Your members just play.
Backbeat for Clubs is coming for men’s and women’s golf clubs. Everything the board sets up shows in the same Backbeat app members use for their Saturday game.
Join the clubs list- Memberships
- Invitations, renewals and dues, with a clear list of who’s in this season.
- The schedule
- Every event of the season, published to every member’s phone.
- Flights and tee times
- Built from handicaps in minutes, locked when the board is ready.
- Results and payouts
- Final in minutes after the last group, worked out to the dollar.
Questions
- What does it cost?
- Backbeat is free. Clubs that run their season on Backbeat for Clubs pay for it; their members still use Backbeat for free.
- iPhone or Android?
- Both. During the beta, iPhone testers install through Apple’s TestFlight app and Android testers through a Google Play test link. Every invitation comes with step-by-step instructions.
- Does everyone in my group need the app?
- No. One golfer can keep score for the whole group. If the others have Backbeat too, each scores on his own phone and sees the same card.
- When can I get it?
- The beta is open to invited golfers now. The public release follows in early 2027. Apply for the beta and we’ll tell you when there’s a spot.