Golf side games, scored automatically.
Pick your game — Stroke Play, Match Play, Best Ball, Vegas, Skins, Wolf, and more. ForeBoard handles the handicap strokes and the live leaderboard. You're not stuck being the calculator. No app. No account.
Free. No download. No account. Just golf.
Net scoring is where the math falls apart.
You've got four guys, a tee time, and a friendly wager. Two of them have legit handicaps. One has a vague memory of what his handicap was three summers ago. Nobody actually knows which holes are stroke holes from the tees you're playing today.
By the 4th, somebody's claiming a stroke on a par-3 where he shouldn't be popping. By the 12th, the running math has drifted. By the 18th green, three of you are squinting at a scorecard trying to back-calculate net scores while the fourth guy walks ahead to put in the drink order.
And the side game — Skins, Vegas, Best Ball, whatever you settled on — has its own scoring on top. Someone always ends up being the math guy. And the math guy just missed the cart girl.
ForeBoard handles the strokes, the net math, and your chosen game — automatically.
Pick your game format when you create the round — Stroke Play, Match Play, Best Ball, Vegas, Skins, Wolf, Niners, Twelvers, or High/Low. ForeBoard always tracks a stroke-play leaderboard alongside your chosen format, so you get two views from one round without anyone keeping a separate scorecard.
Real course data from 30,000+ courses means handicap strokes go on the right holes automatically. Net scores update in real time as scores come in. Carryovers in Skins are tracked. Vegas pairings happen on every hole without anyone doing the digit math. The only thing your group has to do is hit the ball and type in a number.
Every side game your group actually plays.
ForeBoard supports the formats real golfers play in real rounds. Pick one, pick several, run them all at once.
Stroke Play
Lowest total score wins. The simplest game in golf, but the math gets fuzzy fast when net scores are involved. ForeBoard handles the strokes automatically.
Match Play
Hole-by-hole, head-to-head. Win the hole, win the point. Dormie. 1-up. ForeBoard tracks every hole and tells you exactly where the match stands without anyone counting on their fingers.
Best Ball
Two-on-two team golf. The lowest score on each side counts. Net or gross. ForeBoard runs the math on every hole — no one has to ask "wait, who had what?" walking off the green.
Vegas
Two-man teams pair their scores into a two-digit number — low ball first, then high ball. Lower number wins. Easy to play, brutal to track manually. ForeBoard does the pairing and the math hole by hole.
Skins
Lowest score wins the hole. Tied? It carries over. Individual or team skins, gross or net. ForeBoard tracks carryovers and tells you exactly how many skins each player won when the round ends.
Wolf
Each hole, the rotating Wolf picks a partner after the tee shots — or goes Lone Wolf for the bigger reward. ForeBoard tracks the rotation, the picks, and the running tally so nobody has to remember whose turn it is to pick.
Niners
Nine points up for grabs on every hole. Best score gets five, second gets three, third gets one. ForeBoard splits ties and runs the running total, so the standings are always current.
Twelvers
Twelve points per hole, divided across the foursome based on finishing order. Ties split points. The math is a headache. ForeBoard handles it.
High/Low
Two-on-two team game where the low ball and the high ball both score. One point for the low, one point for the high — your team can win, lose, or split a hole. ForeBoard scores both ends.
How it works.
Three steps. About thirty seconds before tee time.
Create the round
Type a name, pick your course, choose your format. Done in about thirty seconds. ForeBoard generates a shareable link and a QR code.
Share the link
Drop the link in your group text. Everyone taps it and they're in — no app, no account, no signup.
Score and play
Enter scores hole by hole on your phone. Stroke play and your chosen game both update live as you play. Settle up at the bar.
When the round ends, you get the receipt.
Most golf apps go quiet after the 18th hole. ForeBoard sticks around for the part everyone actually shares.
Email recap for any player
As soon as the last score is in, anyone in the round can pull a clean recap email — final leaderboard, hole-by-hole scoring, side-game results. The version you'd want to forward to the buddy who said you'd never break 90 on that course.
Shareable leaderboard graphic
One tap, drops cleanly into the group chat or an Instagram story. It's the easy answer when somebody who skipped the round asks “how'd it go?” — and nobody has to volunteer the score of the friend who stopped keeping score after the 13th.
Why ForeBoard, and not the apps your buddies already have.
18Birdies, The Grint, Golfshot, SwingU — they're built for one player tracking their own round. They want app downloads, accounts, swing data, GPS yardages, and premium subscriptions. That's a different product.
ForeBoard is built for the group. The reason it works on the first tee — when one guy creates a round and everyone else just taps a link — is the entire reason it exists. The friction of getting four guys signed in is what kills every other app before the second hole.
Questions worth answering.
Do I need to download an app to use ForeBoard?
No. ForeBoard runs in any phone browser. You create a round in 30 seconds and share a link with your group — drop it in your group chat, or have everyone scan the QR code ForeBoard generates for you. They tap the link or scan the code and they're in. No app store, no download, no install. The whole point is that you can be on the first tee with three other guys and have everyone scoring inside of a minute.
Does everyone in my group need to create an account?
No accounts. Nobody signs up. The person who creates the round shares the link (in the group chat) or pulls up the QR code, the rest of the group taps or scans, and everyone is scoring from their own phone. No home page to navigate to, no codes to type, no app to download. We built it this way because every other golf app gets killed by the "okay everyone go download the app" moment on the first tee.
How does ForeBoard handle handicaps for net scoring?
ForeBoard pulls real course data from 30,000+ courses worldwide, identifies the correct stroke holes for the tees you're playing, and applies your handicap automatically. You don't have to argue about who gets a stroke on the par-5 fifth — the app already knows.
Can my group play more than one side game in the same round?
ForeBoard tracks one side game per round — Skins, Vegas, Best Ball, etc. — but every round also includes an automatic stroke-play leaderboard alongside your chosen format. So you always end up with two leaderboards from a single round: the side game and stroke play. If your group regularly plays multiple side games at once, tell us — multi-game support is on our roadmap.
Is ForeBoard actually free?
Yes. No premium tier, no per-player fees, no upsell. Casual rounds, golf trips, and large tournaments are all free. We make this clear because we know other apps lure you in free and lock the good stuff behind a paywall — that's not how ForeBoard works.
How is ForeBoard different from 18Birdies, The Grint, or Golfshot?
Those apps are built for individual round tracking, GPS, and swing analysis — and they all require an app download and an account. ForeBoard is built for group scoring of side games and team formats, runs in a browser, and works for everyone in your group without any of them setting up anything. Different problem, different solution.
What happens if cell service drops on the course?
Scores you enter on your phone are saved locally and sync up to the leaderboard once you're back in coverage. Walk into a dead spot on the back nine? Nothing's lost — the leaderboard catches up when the signal does.
What if my group wants to play a side game ForeBoard doesn't support?
Tell us. We're actively adding game formats — if there's a game your group plays regularly, we want to hear about it. Email the team from the contact link on the home page.
Stop tracking side games with a broken pencil.
Create your round in thirty seconds. Share the link. Let ForeBoard do the math.