Why the app exists
Play for money on the course and there is counting to do. Skins carrying between holes, a Nassau with a press on the back nine, a birdie pot on the side, and all of it to be divided off the right course handicap. With paper and a calculator it usually ends in an argument at the 19th, where someone remembers the pot wrong and someone else never got their strokes.
Wager Golf does the counting for you. You pick the course and the format, score hole by hole, and the app keeps the pot live. When the round ends it shows who owes whom. No scraps of paper, no mental arithmetic.
- 21 game formats with automatic final-balance calculation, from skins and match play to Nassau, team games and side games. Five main games and one optional side game per round are free; Pro unlocks the full selection and more combinations.
- Proper WHS handicap. Course handicap is worked out per course and tee, and the strokes are allocated to the right holes via stroke index. Net scores are compared hole by hole so a mixed group can meet fairly.
- 3,028 courses across 13 European countries are included in version 1.7.1 with par and stroke index. The catalogue is available in countries where the version has launched.
- Settlement worked out for you. The app minimises the number of payments and shows exactly who pays whom.
Who is behind it
Wager Golf was built by Gustaf Bratt, a Swedish golfer who plays with the same group and has the same arguments about the pot as most people. The app came about to solve a concrete problem in his own fourball, not as a product on a drawing board. It shows in the details: the formats that actually get played are the ones included, handicap is worked out under WHS properly, and the tone is golf club rather than betting company.
Wager Golf is not a gambling company. There is no bank taking stakes and no house that wins. The app simply keeps track of what you have already agreed between yourselves, and makes squaring up straightforward.
Why the guides exist
Much of what exists online about golf's game formats is shallow, and the rules often differ between sources. How does a skin actually carry? How is a Quota worked out for a mixed group? What does a press do in a Nassau?
The guides on this site answer that properly. Each guide explains what the format is, how you play it, how the pot is worked out and how handicap fits in, with concrete numbers and examples. They are written by the same person who built the app, so the rules in the text are the rules the app counts by.
If you want to see how a format plays out in practice, start with the classics: skins, match play and Stableford.