HOW IT WORKS
Follow a Saturday foursome through eighteen holes. You'll see exactly where GoLo does the work — setup, strokes, scores, the side bets, and the one number everyone wants at the end.
THE ROUND, IN ORDER
Mike, Jess, Sarah and Tom at Tetherow. Team Nassau at $5 a man, $2 skins, $2 closest to the pin on the par 3s. Tom's a guest. Here's their round, on the app's real screens.
Course, tees, players, teams, games, stakes. A couple of minutes on one phone, and it's the last time anyone thinks about setup. Save your regulars as a group and next week they're in, teams and all, with one tap.
Each index becomes a course handicap for the tees the group is playing, and GoLo drops the strokes on the right holes by stroke index. Tom's 26 is a stroke on every hole and a second on the eight hardest. Nobody argues about who gets one on 7.
One phone scores the group. Enter gross scores and GoLo applies the strokes, takes each team's better ball and decides the skin before the flag's back in. On the 3rd it's net 3 against net 3, so the skin rides to the 4th.
Jess & Sarah closed out the front 3&2, and that bet settled itself at $5 a man. The back nine and the 18 keep running on their own, so Mike & Tom tee off on 10 knowing exactly what they need.
Mike & Tom won five holes on the back to take it 4&2 and the 18 3&1. Every bet closed the second the final score went in. No calculator, no recount, no “wait, who had the seventh?”
GoLo nets every bet against every other and boils it down to a short list of payments — two, this time. Then you settle the way your group already does. The money never touches GoLo.
HANDICAPS, WITHOUT THE ARGUMENT
Each index becomes a course handicap for the tees the group is playing. That's how many strokes the player gets: one a hole on the hardest holes first, and once a handicap passes 18, a second on the hardest holes again.
THE FORMULA
Index × (Slope ÷ 113) + (Rating − Par)
Tetherow · Tan tees · 71.4 / 139 · Par 72
| PLAYER | INDEX | COURSE HCP |
|---|---|---|
| Mike | 8.2 | 9 |
| Jess | 11.0 | 13 |
| Sarah | 14.0 | 17 |
| Tomguest | 22.0 | 26 |
WHERE THE STROKES LAND
Sarah gets 17, a stroke on every hole but the 10th, the easiest on the card. Her 4 on the 3rd counts as a 3.
SI = stroke index, the course's ranking of hole difficulty (1 is hardest). Strokes go to the lowest numbers first; past 18 they start again at SI 1.
HOW THE MATH LANDS
Same foursome, same round. Team Nassau — Mike & Tom against Jess & Sarah — at $5 a man, $2 team skins with carryovers, and $2 closest to the pin on Tetherow's four par 3s. Here's what GoLo shows at the end.
| PLAYER | NASSAU | SKINS | CTP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom2 closest | +$5 | +$6 | +$8 | +$19 |
| Mike1 closest | +$5 | +$6 | $0 | +$11 |
| Jess1 closest | −$5 | −$6 | $0 | −$11 |
| Sarah0 closest | −$5 | −$6 | −$8 | −$19 |
Nassau: Jess & Sarah took the front; Mike & Tom took the back and the 18. Two out of three is +$5 a man. Skins: team skins, best ball net. Four tied holes rode into a 5-skin 6th for Jess & Sarah; Mike & Tom took the 9th and five holes on the back. Ten skins to seven at $2 is $6 a man. Closest to pin: the winner of each par 3 collects $2 from each of the other three. Tom won two, Mike and Jess one each.
SETTLE UP
2payments, before anyone leaves the lot.
Every bet netted against every other. Tom, the guest without the app, goes home $19 up, and Sarah pays him once instead of settling three games one by one.
GUESTS WELCOME
Add a guest with a name and a handicap. That's it — no download, no sign-up, no email. They get the same strokes, the same bets and the same line on the settle-up screen as everyone else.
WHAT GOLO DOESN'T DO
GoLo tracks who owes who. You pay each other however your group already does. We never see a payment.
No odds, no lines, no rake. Just friendly wagers between the people in your group, at stakes you agreed on.
One phone scores the round. Anyone with the app can follow along live; all four entering their own scores isn't built yet.
No GHIN needed. Use a real index, the number your group settled on years ago, or play straight up.
WATCH IT
Setup, scoring, the turn and the settle-up — the same round as above, on the app's real screens, with the middle holes cut for time.
PICK YOUR GAMES
TRACK IT. BET IT. SETTLE IT.
