Send a link and anyone — playing partners, spouses, the guys who couldn’t make it — follows the money and scorecards in real time. No app, no account, no charge.
Watching is always free.
Not another scorecard app. A full betting platform for your foursome.
Say "Alvin birdie, Rich bogey, two putts" and the card fills itself — or enter the whole hole in a couple of taps on the cleanest scorecard you’ve used. Either way you’re back to your group fast, not buried in your phone.
Tap or talk — built for speedWolf, Nassau, Skins and 63 more — layer as many as you like and press on any hole. The game engine is flexible enough to match any house rule, or build a format that exists nowhere else. theStick keeps it all straight and settles every dollar.
68 games — or build your ownMost apps stop at four players. theStick handles fivesomes, sixsomes — even a twelvesome shotgun — with every game, team, and press tracked across the whole group.
No 4-player limitSearch rated courses and tees, and every golfer's Handicap Index® pulls in automatically from their Handicap ID. No arguing about strokes on the first tee — just tee it up.
Handicap Index lookupIf you don't have a Handicap Index, theStick can show you a personal Skill Level built from your own round history — for your own tracking. It isn't a Handicap Index and it doesn't replace one; without a Handicap Index you play at gross. It even tracks a separate Simulator Skill Level for simulator rounds, kept apart from your regular one.
A personal Skill LevelAdd notes, photos, and quick voice memos on any hole — the lip-out on 12, the punch-out on 7, the eagle no one believed. Talk it in while you walk; theStick builds a full memory of your round as you play.
Photos, notes & voice per holeFriends and family can follow the live scorecard and money standings from any device — no download, no charge. Just a link.
Live, shareable, zero frictionAnyone watching can bet birdies, pars, gross scores, next-hole props, head-to-head matchups, and parlays. Every line is priced from real scoring data and re-computed hole by hole as the round unfolds — exact probabilities, zero vig, and what's already on the card is locked in as fact. Challenges settle automatically against the real score.
Live odds, re-priced every holeReal rounds change, and the money keeps up. Freeze a player who walks off — every hole they played settles exactly as it stood, and they're out of every game from the next tee. A buddy shows up late? Add them on the spot. Even a game added mid-round only counts from that hole forward. Holes already played are never rewritten.
Played holes lock in — money stays rightRun your recurring group as a Group or a League — season-long standings and multi-group pool events across dozens of players — or a bounded Tournament (Stroke Play, Bracket, Ryder Cup or Round Robin) or a one-day Simple Event. Pick'Em contests bring spectators in.
Groups, Leagues & TournamentsFollowers pick their top players for the league night, ranked by the results, and the best combined picks split a pot — 50% to first, 30% to second, 20% to third. theStick keeps the score and the standings all season; the organizer collects and pays out, and the app never touches the money.
Picks, points & a shared potWhen the round ends, theStick generates a narrative summary of the highlights — birdies, momentum swings, who choked and who came through. Share it at the 19th hole.
AI-powered recaptheStick calculates every dollar across every game automatically. See a full breakdown by game type, then send payment in one tap via Venmo. No calculators. No arguments.
1-touch Venmo paymentBadges, personal records, and your Handicap Index trend — tracked automatically across every round you log, so your whole golf history lives in one place.
Your career, tracked automaticallyWe run a Wolf game, a Nassau, and skins all at once — theStick settled every penny before we hit the parking lot. No more napkin math, no more arguments.
I set up the entire round by talking to it on the first tee. Games, bets, teams — done in twenty seconds while I was still stretching.
My wife followed the back nine from home on the live link and was texting me trash talk in real time. She's never cared about my golf before.
It pulled everyone's Handicap Indexes automatically, so the strokes were finally right. The sandbaggers are not thrilled.
The running ledger is the killer feature. I can see who owes who across the whole season, not just today.
Hammer, Banker, Wolf, presses — every weird game my buddies invented over the years is in here, and the math just works.
Our sim league runs year-round now — same standings, same ledger, whether we're on grass or hitting into the screen. Nobody's tracking two separate season tallies anymore.
My buddies watching from the clubhouse bar put money on whether I'd birdie 17 before I even hit my drive. Side Action turned spectating into its own game.
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Yes. Anyone can watch live rounds free forever, no card required. Hosting your own betting games needs a membership — which starts with a 30-day free trial.
They’ll need a free watcher account — share a link and they’re prompted to sign up in seconds, then they can watch the live scorecard and money standings from any browser without downloading anything.
68 games — Wolf, Nassau, Skins, Dots, Hammer, Banker and many more, often several at once in one round. And because the game engine is so configurable, you can tweak house rules or build your own format. theStick keeps each game’s money separate and settles it all at the end.
No. theStick tracks friendly bets between you and your group and tells you who owes who — you settle up among yourselves. We never process wagers.
Yes — connect your Handicap ID and theStick pulls your Handicap Index® automatically, so strokes are applied correctly without manual entry.
You can still play — at gross, with no strokes given or received, until you have one. theStick can also show you a personal Skill Level from your own round history, for your own tracking; it isn't a Handicap Index and doesn't replace one.
It's the same friendly-wager model as the main game: theStick tracks who owes who on a spectator's bet and settles it against the real score, priced off real odds calculated from actual play data — but it never processes any money itself.
A league runs a whole season instead of one round — multiple groups play the same event on the same day, and theStick rolls it all up into season-long standings, pool payouts split across every group, and optional Pick'Em contests for anyone following along.
Pick'Em is a contest for a league night. Anyone following along picks their top players before scoring starts, players are ranked by the Low Net results, and the best combined points split the pot — 50% to first, 30% to second, 20% to third, with ties broken by birdies. Points build all season and payouts settle at the end. The organizer collects the buy-ins and pays out; theStick keeps score and never handles the money.
Side Action is live betting on what happens in a round — a player's birdies, a hole, a head-to-head matchup — one wager at a time, priced at fair odds with zero vig. Pick'Em is a contest for a league: followers pick their top players and the best combined picks split a pot. Neither one moves money through theStick — it tracks who owes who, and you settle up among yourselves.
A Group is the same players every week. A League is a season with a roster, standings and points, and it can run several groups at once. A Tournament is a bounded competition with no ongoing season — Stroke Play, Bracket, Ryder Cup or Round Robin. A Simple Event is one casual day: one round, one field, no flights or partner formats. Tournaments and Simple Events can be chartered into a League to feed its season standings.
Yes. Every round you play adds to your career stats and achievement badges automatically — personal bests, streaks, and your Handicap Index trend, all in one place.
theStick is built for it. Freeze a player who leaves — every hole already played settles exactly as it stood, and they're out of every game from the next hole: no antes, no phantom scores. A late arrival joins the per-hole games from that hole on without touching anything already played. Even a new game added mid-round only counts from that hole forward.
From real golf, not guesses. Lines start from actual recorded scores for players at that handicap, and once the round is underway every price is re-computed hole by hole from the exact probability distribution of the holes remaining — what's already on the card counts as fact. Every price is true fair odds with zero vig: theStick is never the house, so one side's risk is exactly the other side's win.
There's no App Store or Google Play listing — theStick installs straight from your browser as a Progressive Web App. Tap "Add to Home Screen" (iOS Safari) or "Install App" (Android Chrome) and it behaves just like a native app: its own icon, full-screen with no browser bar, and push notifications.
Founding members lock in $3.99/mo forever (50% off). Regular membership is $7.99/mo, or save with annual billing. Cancel anytime.