How TripGolf works
One person organizes, everyone stays in the loop. Here's the whole flow, start to finish.
For organizers
- 1Start your trip on the signup page: one price per trip, however many golfers are in your group.
- 2Add your roster: just everyone's name (an email is optional), plus handicap index if you have it.
- 3Set your trip dates, lodging, and flights.
- 4Add each round: course, format (stroke play, match play, scramble, and more), and tee times.
- 5Optional: set up two teams and side bets if your group tracks those.
- 6Share the invite link — everyone in your group can open it, pick their name, and follow along.
- 1Add your roster: just everyone's name (an email is optional), plus handicap index if you have it.
- 2Set your trip dates, lodging, and flights.
- 3Add each round: course, format (stroke play, match play, scramble, and more), and tee times.
- 4Optional: set up two teams and side bets if your group tracks those.
- 5Share the invite link — everyone in your group can open it, pick their name, and follow along.
For invited players
- 1Open the invite link your organizer sent you.
- 2Pick your name from the roster so the app remembers you on this device.
- 3On round day, enter your scores hole by hole — tap the number, no typing needed.
- 4Check the Leaderboard tab any time to see live match status and standings.
Scoring & handicaps
If a round has par, slope rating, and a stroke index set for all 18 holes, TripGolf works out each player's Course Handicap and gives strokes accordingly — relative to the toughest player in a match for head-to-head formats, or against your full handicap in stroke play and Stableford. Without that setup, a round just scores gross. A few short courses, like Commons at Sand Valley, have no USGA rating at all, so for those TripGolf plays off the percentage of each player's Handicap Index that the course recommends instead. Alt-shot and scramble share one ball per side, so those formats show one line per team instead of one per player.
Questions
Do I need to install an app?
No — TripGolf runs in your phone's browser. If you want it to feel more like an app, use "Add to Home Screen" and it'll launch full-screen from an icon like any other app.
Can I change trip details after I've set everything up?
Yes. The organizer can go back into "Edit trip setup" from the trip page at any time — add players, change dates, add rounds, and everything else.
Can you set the trip up for me, so I can see it before I pay?
Yes. Email info@tripgolf.app your details: names and emails, dates, courses and tee times, where you're staying, flights. Screenshots and messy notes are fine. We build your trip and send you a link to look it over, free. If you'd like to keep it and invite your group, you pay then. If not, there's nothing to do: it disappears after two weeks.
Does everyone get their own itinerary?
Yes. On the trip page, tap My itinerary for your own day-by-day schedule: your flights, your tee time and who you're playing with, the rides to your rounds, and the meals and lodging everyone shares. You can download it as a PDF. Organizers can open anyone's, to send each person theirs.
Can we split costs on the trip?
Yes. Open Costs on the trip page. Add what someone paid for and who it's shared with (equally, or by amount), and add side bets as IOUs. TripGolf shows who owes whom and the fewest payments that square everyone up, and you can mark each one as paid. It only keeps the tally: you pay each other however you like.
Can I organize a trip without playing in it?
Yes. Tick "I'm organizing this trip but not playing" when you start the trip: you won't be on the roster, and you can still run everything. Use Organizer sign-in at the bottom of any page to see all your trips and open any of them from any phone or computer.
What if I don't know everyone's handicap?
Leave it blank. Rounds without full handicap info (par, slope, and a stroke index for all 18 holes) just score gross, with no strokes given — you can add the handicap details later and it'll apply from then on.
How does scoring work for scrambles and alternate shot?
Partners share one ball, so those formats show one score per side instead of one per player — enter it once and it applies to both partners automatically.
Can players see each other's scores?
Yes. Everyone in the trip can see the roster, schedule, and the live leaderboard. There's no way to hide scores from your own group.
How do bets work?
Add a Nassau, skins, wolf, match play, or custom bet to a round or the whole trip, and pick who's in it. A Nassau is scored for you as the round goes — match play on the front nine, back nine, and overall, with press bets too if you turn them on — and the other bets you mark as they're settled. TripGolf just tracks it — it doesn't move any money.
Do invited players need to make an account?
No. Opening the invite link and picking your name from the roster is enough — the app remembers you on that device from then on.
Can I get a copy of the trip to keep or print?
Yes — the trip page has a "Download Trip PDF" button with the full roster, schedule, fillable scorecards, lodging, meals, flights, and bets, so you've got an offline copy even without signal at the course.
Is there an app I can download?
TripGolf works right in your phone's browser, with nothing to install. If you'd like it to open like an app, add your trip to your home screen: on an iPhone tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android open the browser menu and tap Install app. The trip page shows these steps on your phone, too.