7 Things the Best Social Golf Apps Must Let You Do
Golf has always been a social sport.
For many golfers, the people they play with are every bit as important as their handicap, score or statistics.
You want to know how your mate got on at the weekend. You want to congratulate them on a great round or question how they somehow managed 42 Stableford points.
You organise trips together, run competitions and accumulate years of golfing memories.
Yet many golf apps are still primarily built around the individual golfer.
GPS. Distances. Scorecards. Statistics.
They’re all useful, but what if the golf group was at the centre of the experience instead?
That’s the idea behind TrackPar.
Here are seven things we think a great social golf app should allow you and your golf friends to do.
1. See how your friends are playing — even when you’re not there
You don’t only care about your friend’s score when you’re playing in the same fourball.
Perhaps one of your mates squeezes in 18 holes after work. Another plays with colleagues on Friday. Someone else is away playing a course you’ve always wanted to visit.
With a TrackPar Circle, golfers can keep up with the rounds their friends share even when they weren’t part of them.
Instead of everyone’s golf disappearing into separate scoring apps, it becomes part of your group’s activity.
Your mate just shot their best round of the year?
You’ll know about it.
2. React and comment on each other’s golf
Seeing a score is useful.
Being able to do something with it makes it social.
TrackPar Circle members can react to updates and leave comments underneath them.
Congratulate someone on breaking 90.
Ask what happened on the 18th.
Question whether their handicap needs an urgent review.
Golf has always generated conversation. TrackPar simply gives those conversations somewhere to live alongside the golf itself.
3. Share the photos as well as the scorecards
Some of the best things that happen on a golf course never appear on a scorecard.
The incredible view from the 12th tee.
The group photo before a golf weekend.
Your mate playing a recovery shot from somewhere nobody should ever have hit a golf ball.
Golf is full of memories.
TrackPar allows photos to become part of your Circle and Events, so your group’s golfing history isn’t simply a collection of numbers.
4. Have your own private golf group
Your golf friends aren’t necessarily the same as everyone else’s.
That’s why TrackPar is built around Circles.
A Circle gives a particular group of golfers its own private space.
You might eventually have several:
Saturday Golf — your regular weekend group.
Work Golf — colleagues you occasionally play with.
Portugal Trip — the group going away next summer.
Golf Society — your larger organised group.
Each has its own members and activity while you maintain one TrackPar profile.
That means your golfing life doesn’t have to be squeezed into one enormous public feed.
5. Turn a casual round into a competition
Not every game of golf needs organising weeks in advance.
Sometimes four mates are simply playing on Saturday and decide they want to make things interesting.
TrackPar combines its social features with digital scoring and competitions, allowing your group to move naturally from casual golf to competitive golf.
Record scores hole by hole, follow the leaderboard and let TrackPar calculate the results.
When the round finishes, the result becomes another part of your group’s history.
6. Organise the bigger golf days too
Then there are the occasions that do require planning.
Golf trips. Society days. Weekends away. Multi-round competitions.
TrackPar Events allow groups to bring together information such as courses, dates, tee times and competitions.
Event information can be shared outside TrackPar, making it easy to send the details into the WhatsApp group everyone is already using and add directly to your calender.
And when the day of a competition arrives, the relevant scorecard can be available directly from the player’s TrackPar dashboard.
Plan it. Play it. Share it.
7. Build a history of your golf group
This might ultimately be the most important social feature of all.
Think about your regular golf group five years from now.
How many rounds did you play?
Who won the most competitions?
What courses did you visit?
Who improved the most?
What happened on that ridiculous weekend away?
Your golf group has a history whether you record it or not.
TrackPar gives that history somewhere to live.
Rounds, comments, photos, competitions and Events can accumulate around the people you actually play golf with.
Golf is about more than your own score
There are already plenty of excellent tools for measuring individual golf performance.
TrackPar is being built around something different:
the people you share golf with.
Create a private Circle. Follow your mates’ golf. React and comment. Share photos. Play casual rounds. Run competitions. Organise the next trip.
Because golf is better when it’s shared.
Create your TrackPar Circle for free today.