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This is the official mobile app of the Golf Handicap Information Network (GHIN), a service offered by the USGA to golf associations worldwide.

Key features include:

• Score Posting (Total Score, Hole-by-Hole Score and Hole-by-Hole Score with Stats)
• Stat Tracking (Number of Putts, Approach Shot Accuracy and Driving Accuracy)
• Course Maps & GPS
• Enhanced GPS Features (Putt Break Map, Approach Shot Heat Map, Shot Tracking)
• Games & Group Score Keeping
• Apple Watch integration
• Golfer Lookup
• Handicap Calculator

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GHIN App Comments & Reviews

GHIN Positive Reviews

Better systemI have a soft cap on my handicap. I believe it is a result of one great round I played at my home course in August. That dropped my index way down. It’s a little disappointing that my index is being constricted because of that. You know it is possible to have one good day on the links in an entire year. Especially if you were a very good golfer at one point in your life. It’s still in there. I just can’t get it to come out nearly as often as I would like. Quite honestly, it’s embarrassing ring the index I am. But it’s what I am. I’m getting older. Can’t hit it as far or as straight. My body doesn’t always cooperate. Can’t practice as much as I would like because of my back. Wish the system could take everything into consideration..Version: 4.5.4

Phone App Great - Watch, not so muchThe app for the phone is amazing. I love that it keeps handicap, has enhanced GPS, has heat and putt maps, stat tracking, handicap calculator, etc…. One major flaw is that with the Apple Watch, the GPS still uses yardage from your phone. So, sorry for you if it’s cart path only. Sorry if your partner drops you and takes the cart. The watch app is also constantly closing on your wrist, so, reopening and having to allow it to calibrate again is annoying. GHIN needs to take a note from Hole19 and GolfShot and allow the watch app to utilize the watch GPS on GPS mode only, this way, your watch shows accurate yardage. I find that the biggest difference is the other apps allow Apple Watch with GPS to use the watches GPS and stay open for the full round (phone or not) by utilizing the health app. I use the phone for approaches and around the greens (mainly when we are driving to an approach shot and/or parking to walk to putt and wanting to see the green slopes), then I leave my phone in the cart and I use GolfShot for my watch GPS..Version: 5.3.0

Great Potential. Support is non existentI have been using the app for several years. I use it essentially as an electronic scorecard with the added bonus of automatically submitting for my handicap. It is helpful for match situations with built-in net scoring and even has flexible percentages of net strokes. It is also decent at keeping track of statistics, though there are other apps which are more powerful and offer more granularity, like club and putt distances. The thing that is annoying is that my course, which is a top course in the state, does not have the green heat maps. I know they exist because other apps offer them. I have emailed the developer on several occasions and only get the message "you have already submitted this request," with no path forward. Additionally, the app occasionally has a bug which does not allow proper score input, and reverts to the keyboard instead of the numerical pad input which gives an error in advancing to the next hole. Lastly, the Apple Watch integration has promise, but crashes too many times to be useful..Version: 5.3.3

App stopped working again after IOS updateUpdate: since updating to the latest app version the iWatch and iPhone now work well together as intended. The team addressed the issues and fix the problem in a very timely fashion. One cannot ask for more than that. Thank You!! The app has been working well up until yesterday when I updated my iPhone IOS to 18.2 and the watch app to 11.2. Now the app on the iPhone works well but when trying to connect the iwatch it just says searching and to start round on iPhone. A problem we had in the past. The app probably needs an update to sync with the iPhone and watch app using the latest IOS updates.Version: 5.6.3

Better TrackingI use this app every time I golf to track my round. If I am playing in a league or outing I am likely using golf genius. I cannot “post my score” in GHIN because it will create a 2nd round as Genius is being used. I wish it had a way to just track my stats, and skip submitting that round score, so that I can watch/follow my stats over time but not submit my score 2 times for 1 round. One time through GHIN and again through Genius. ALSO, I would love a way to track penalty strokes per round. I’m working on getting less penalties, and would love to see how they impacted my game overall. If there was just a check box for penalties or something that showed you how many you had with stats/chart over time that would be great. Thank you.Version: 5.6.21

Gah!I loved this app the last two summers. It worked so well with my watch. This year, I’m lucky to even get it to connect to my watch. When I actually do get them connected, it will disconnect almost every hole and if it’s still connected, it will not show distance from the hole, only the score input screen for that hole will show up on my watch. I want my money back!! I will not renew next year if this does not get fixed. Other than that really big problem, I love the app. It’s easy to use and a nice looking app. Please fix this!! Edited: with the update it works for me better than ever! I hope it sticks! Thank you!!.Version: 5.5.3

Great golf app could be betterHigh Hcp trying to lower it. I track stats, count putts, look for areas to improve, and the app is good for all of that. Also love using my watch on the course. Distances are reliable. Greens on the phone are great. My main beef is this: it will not let me keep score on courses outside their posting windows. I used a free app that let me keep scores that it did not include in my handicap. What gives? I shot my second best score in December this year; my best on New Years Day a few back. I’d like to have the data even if it doesn’t figure in. And when I use it those times without score the app will NOT close on my phone because there is no round to end. Please fix those and I will be your biggest fan!!!.Version: 5.6.2

UI FeedbackApp works great and I use it every week. I do have feedback on the interface though. On the enter score/scorecard screen there are two buttons below the scorecard and above the keypad. They are GPS and Post Score. You post your score one time a round, but you potentially switch back to GPS from scorecard on every hole. There is no need for the buttons to be the same size and there is every reason the gps button needs to be bigger. If you’re riding in the cart towards your ball and you’re trying to tap the gps button as you approach, it can be difficult to tap the small gps button just right to get it to switch over. Give me a big old gps button to mash please..Version: 5.5.0

BugAfter hitting “play” and selecting the course then hole by hole with stats when you try and pick the tees the wheel does not go away to move forward to keeping your score. Hope that makes sense. Thanks Edit: the “done” button after selecting tees is white on a grey background. It works but extremely hard to see. Please fix. Thanks. Edit 2. Looks like there was an update today that changed the visuals and the done buttons is clear. Thanks for the update..Version: 5.6.23

Simple fix?Enjoy the app, though only use for keeping score and then post-round posting. Agree with other comments that it’s a nuisance having to re-click “GHIN” to have it reappear on the face after lowering hand. Biggest gripe, though, is that the user should be able to change face element colors—such as to white background with dark lettering. That, or make the hole being played white lettering (or some other higher contrast color, such as bright yellow). Right now “Hole” appears as gray on a black background in a smaller font size. In bright daylight, this is VERY difficult to clearly see—particularly if one is older and needs “readers” (that I don’t wear while playing golf)..Version: 4.9.2

“Scorecard” display is annoyingThe scorecard display is cut off. If you landscape it, you can’t see the bottom stats unless you scroll up a bit, and then you lose the top line which is the yardage of each hole. Why can’t you set it up so that one page shows the front 9, as a whole, with all the stats, and then when you flip sideways you get the back 9? That way you can capture the image of the scorecard with stats and even PRINT those pages as a whole card. You could also integrate some kind of progress chart, an average chart, like in other Apps, where you can see what you’ve been doing over the last 20 scores to show areas of the game that need work etc. This App could be so much more.Version: 5.6.15

Occasional IssuesI’m happy with the yardages as it is always within a yard or two of other golfer’s range finders. Took a little while to get familiar with how to work through scoring a round. My main problem is that it often returns me to the home page and I have to start again, telling it to finish my round so it goes back to the course I’m playing. Today, it kept reverting back to hole #2 even though I was on the back nine. When I manually moved to the hole I was playing, every time I tried to enter my score, it closed the app. I tried restarting my phone, but that didn’t work. I wish it was more reliable in this regard, especially after paying $50 for the upgrade. Needs work!.Version: 5.4.3

Apple Watch app needs work UPDATEDUPDATE: Both issues were fixed in the latest update! I changed my rating from 3 to 5 stars. Please allow for disabling turning the grown to switch holes. My glove turns the crown, so I’m always on the wrong hole. Also, the app keeps closing, even if I set Return to Clock to 1 hour. I need to reopen the app on the phone and hope it syncs with the phone app, which is still tracking a round. Find out how the other golf GPS apps make it work..Version: 5.5.3

App keeps crashingUpdate: the update has helped and it works like its supposed to again although it is draining my battery more than in the past. Since the update last week the app keeps crashing. I get logged in and then it closes and I have to keep reloading. Deleted and reinstalled and still keeps happening. Worked fine until Friday after the newest update. I contacted USGA and they are working on it. Hopefully will be a quick fix. I use this app all the time and usually works great..Version: 5.6.8

Golf Lookup featureSearch for a golfer on the aystem is horribly flawed. Many times registered players don’t show up. I hope they read this and fix it. Still doesn’t work all the time. Seems like once you create a favorite list of someone like Smith you can never add another person with the same last name ! It won’t search the data base. FIX IT !.Version: 4.9.0

Needs Apple Watch FeatureThe stats and GPS functions of the app are great and comparable to other GPS and shot tracking apps like 18 birdies however, the thing that 18 birdies and other apps have that this one doesn’t is compatibility with Apple Watch to tell you front, middle, back yardages and keep stats without using your phone or entering it after the round. Would be nice to see this all inclusive app have the Apple Watch pairing function so you could keep score and stats live as well as receive GPS yardages using your Apple Watch for those who play with the watch on..Version: 5.6.17

Phone app fine, but watch crashesI've used this app for about a year now. On my iPhone XS Max the app works fine, but the app on the watch (v 5) tends to start and immediately crash rendering it useless. I don't understand why the app needs to load my home course every time I play. Can't it just be updated periodically? And I also wish that I could set up a default for my tee setting and number of holes for my home course. Overall, the intereface is a little clunky. I'd like to be able to just have a "play" button for default settings and get rolling..Version: 5.3.0

Good app, getting betterThe app continues to improve and I use the stats function often. I would like to see the following changes, upgrades. 1) change the colors for the stats. It doesn’t have to be a some kind of shade of green. Try a different color. 2) that doesn’t seem to be a way to select a penalty stroke. 3. When reviewing stats after a round, the data in the screen needs to be recalibrated so that you can clearly see the stats for fairway accuracy..Version: 5.5.5

Okay app; needs improvementsA couple of things. I love daily GHIN updates, when playing a lot of rounds it’s great. Also love you’re bringing in some of the stuff from GolfLogix. It’s great. I want to use the app for distances - but practice rounds alone aren’t scoreable, and I don’t have the ability you use the app without scoring / marking it as an alone round. Additionally the app just won’t load sometimes. Many devices - all the same. The change was recent and it’s like it’s locking up and timing out during authentication..Version: 4.9.1

RECOMMENDED UPDATEPlease update the GHIN App “My Courses” option of the Profile section to allow the user to designate one of the courses as default “HOME”. I recognize that it can be done when starting a round but that option does not standout and I (and many of my golf buddies) fail to select it. I also understand that if I joined through my home club it would be the default. However, it is a lot more convenient for me to renew my membership on-line..Version: 5.3.0

Loved the app when it worked correctlyI used to be able to post my scores hole by hole, which was awesome. Since 3 days ago the app closes when I try to use that feature. I’ll choose post hole by hole, select the tees and date, then hit post and the app closes/ shuts down. I am able to post total score from and back but that doesn’t keep hole by hole stats, which i like. I sent an email via the help button on the app but got no feedback. Problem continues to this day..Version: 5.5.1

Need a comparison chart for statsWith all the stats, I enter, it would be nice to have the ghin app compare my average stats to other golfers of my same handicap for example, greens in regulation percentage, fairways hit percentage, putts per round number…Etc. that would give me a target to see what I need to work on a little bit better. That would be easy to do I would think with all the data that the gin app is collecting from all golfers..Version: 5.3.1

Great yardage but keep crashingThe app is great for yardage. I use it now instead of my garmin gps since the GHIN app is updated for our course renovations (new bunkers and widened fairways and greens) and garmin is not. Also wonderful at tracking stats and playing match play (gross or net) with friends. Only 3 stars because the app keeps crashing when I review my scoring history by course and the mobile app does not work well (yardages not accurate, app crashes, could not post scores). Otherwise 5 stars!.Version: 5.4.3

Disappointing Handicap scoringOne good round over a year ago dropped my index by 5 strokes. Since then I’ve played my normal, struggling way which is never breaking 90 for the past 15 rounds. I’ve entered my scores under other apps and my index is correct. Using this app, my index has never changed. This app is not updated properly, your rounds scores vs your index will not be accurate, and only leads to people abandoning the app, and the handicap process altogether. Get it together start managing this app like it deserves..Version: 4.8.1

Finding other players.I have difficulty finding fellow golfers on the app...Version: 5.0.2

Great but....I can get my course handicap on my iPad with this app, but when I use the app on my phone, I can’t select the tees. This is annoying when you are out on the course, and you can’t figure out what your max is on a hole, now that we have the new rules. This app would be really useful if you could fix this..Version: 3.0

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