Player Guides

Is theStick Too Complicated? A Beginner's Guide to Getting Started

You don't need to learn 66 games to use theStick. A beginner's path to your first round: one game, voice entry, and watching the automatic settle-up happen once.

How Voice Scoring Works on theStick

How voice entry works during a round: saying scores naturally, what it understands, and fixing a misheard entry without breaking your pace of play.

Understanding Your Handicap on theStick

How theStick handles your handicap: GHIN sync, theStick's own calculated index if you don't have one, automatic per-hole stroke allocation, and why your Simulator Handicap is tracked separately.

How to Read Your Results and Who-Owes-Who

A walkthrough of the results and settle-up screen after a round: per-game breakdowns, the consolidated who-owes-who total, and paying with one tap.

A Player's Guide to Nassau, Skins, and the Other Games You'll See

Plain-language rules for the golf betting games you're most likely to actually play — nassau, skins, wolf, and best ball — from the seat of the person playing, not the person setting it up.

Everything a Watcher Can Do on theStick

A free watcher account on theStick can do far more than spectate: play in rounds, follow leagues and tournaments as a participant, bet Side Action and Pick’em, keep friends, and get notified automatically.

Tracking Your Season: Stats, Achievements, and the Ledger

What the Stats, Ledger, and Achievements tabs actually track, how the numbers are scoped for hosts versus watchers, and where your season history lives.

Troubleshooting Common Scoring Mistakes

What to do when a score gets entered wrong, a handicap looks off, or a hole was skipped by accident — fixing the four most common in-round scoring mistakes.