Run your buddies trip without becoming the spreadsheet guy.
Multi-day, multi-round Ryder Cup–style scoring with live team and individual leaderboards. Different format every round. Spectator mode for everyone watching from home. No app. No accounts. Free.
Free. No download. No account. Just share a link and go.
Someone has to organize all of this. That someone is usually you.
You've got the crew. The flights are booked. The trash talk has been running in the group text for six months. And then the actual trip arrives, and you remember that running a multi-day Ryder Cup format with rotating pairings, individual stats, and team points takes more attention than playing the rounds.
By Saturday night, the cocktail napkin in your hotel room is unreadable. Someone wants to know if they’re up or down in the singles match. Someone else is asking if Vegas counts in the team total. The 11pm group text becomes a sub-thread of you doing arithmetic on your phone in the bathroom.
And the only thing standing between fun and chaos is whoever volunteered to “just keep track of it all.”
ForeBoard runs the math, the standings, and the spectator broadcast.
Set up the trip in under a minute. Pick a format for each round — team match play one day, best ball the next, High/Low Saturday afternoon. ForeBoard tracks every round independently AND keeps a cumulative Ryder Cup leaderboard running across the whole trip. Individual stats, team points, hole-by-hole match status — all of it, live, on every player's phone.
Players join by tapping a single link or scanning a QR code. No app store. No accounts. No setup. The twelve guys on your trip are scoring inside of a minute. You’re in the cart, not doing arithmetic at the bar, not yelling at the group across the fairway to ask what they got on the last hole.
Your wife, your kids, your buddy who couldn't make it — they all get a live view.
Every trip generates a shareable spectator link. Send it to anyone — they open it in a browser and watch the trip unfold in real time. Scores push live the moment they're entered, so the leaderboard is always current — nobody has to hit refresh. Live standings, who's up in singles, where the team match stands. Read-only. They watch, they don't score. And they don't install anything.
No other free app in this niche does this well. It turns every trip into a mini broadcast — and it's a hell of a way to keep the group text alive between rounds.
Every format your trip needs.
Run a different game every day. ForeBoard tracks them all and rolls them into the trip-long Ryder Cup leaderboard.
Vegas
Two-man teams pair scores into a two-digit number — low ball first, high ball second. Lower number wins the hole. Easy to play, brutal to track on a scorecard. ForeBoard does the pairing and the math hole by hole.
Best ball
Two-on-two team golf, lowest score on each side counts. Net or gross. Run it for one round of your trip or every round, with team standings updating live.
Match play
Hole-by-hole, head-to-head competition. ForeBoard tracks the match status (1-up, 2-down, dormie) so you don't have to count strokes between holes.
Stroke play
Total score competition with handicap-aware net scoring. ForeBoard pulls real course data and applies handicap strokes on the right holes automatically.
High/Low
A two-on-two team format where both the low score and the high score earn points. Great mid-trip variety when the group needs a different rhythm.
Skins (carryovers)
Skins runs as a side game across any round of your trip. Carryovers tracked.
How it works.
About a minute to set up. The rest of the trip runs itself.
Create the trip
Name it. Add your courses. Pick the formats for each round. Decide pairings — or change them daily. ForeBoard generates a single shareable link and QR code for the whole trip.
Share with the group
Drop the link in your group text — or pull up the QR code for everyone to scan. Share the spectator link with anyone watching from home. Players tap, and they're in. Done.
Score and watch it unfold
Players score from their phones. Leaderboards update live — round-by-round, individual, team, cumulative. You're running the trip, not running spreadsheets.
When the trip wraps, the receipts come out.
Most golf apps go quiet after the last putt drops. ForeBoard sticks around for the part the group will actually talk about — the post-trip content.
Post-round graphics
Each round generates shareable graphics — the game leaderboard, the individual leaderboard, the running team standings. Drop them into the group chat as the trip unfolds. Easier than reconstructing a recap from memory while three guys argue about who actually won Friday.
Up to ten trip awards — positive and negative
At the end of the trip, ForeBoard hands out up to ten awards. Low Round Champ for the best single round. Cold Blooded for the most birdies. Comeback Kid for the biggest round-to-round turnaround. And the ones nobody volunteers for: Blow-Up King (most double bogeys or worse), The Anchor (the single worst hole of the trip), Sandbagger (best net score, accusations of handicap manipulation pending). The kind of stats that fuel next year's group text.
Why ForeBoard for golf trips, specifically.
18Birdies, Golfshot, SwingU — those apps track an individual round. They want you downloading the app, creating an account, and using their swing tools. They're not built for a 12-person trip with rotating pairings, multi-round scoring, and a cousin in Cleveland watching from his couch.
The smaller trip-niche apps (PlayThru, Squabbit, Scrolf, Unknown Golf) get closer, but most still ask for accounts and downloads, and most of them limit features behind paywalls. ForeBoard is the only free, browser-based, no-account option built specifically for multi-day group trips with a real-time spectator broadcast.
Questions worth answering.
How is ForeBoard different from 18Birdies, Golfshot, or other golf apps?
Those apps are built for individual golfers tracking their own rounds — GPS, stats, swing tips. ForeBoard is built for groups. Specifically, multi-day, multi-round, multi-format trips where you need team standings AND individual leaderboards running at the same time. And every player joins by tapping a link or scanning a QR code — no download, no account. Different problem, different solution.
Do all my friends need to download an app or create accounts?
No. You create the trip and share the link in the group chat (or pull up a QR code for everyone to scan), the rest of the group taps to join. No app store. No account creation. No "did you download it yet?" texts at 11pm before the flight. This is the single biggest reason ForeBoard works on group trips.
Can I run multiple game formats across different rounds of the same trip?
Yes — that's exactly what Ryder Cup format is built for. Day one is best ball, day two is team match play, day three is a Vegas, day four is singles. ForeBoard tracks team points across every round and shows a cumulative leaderboard for the whole trip, plus separate leaderboards for each round.
How does the spectator mode work?
Every trip has a shareable spectator link that updates live. Send it to wives, kids, friends back home, the buddy who couldn't make this year — anyone. They open the link in a browser, see the live leaderboard, and watch the trip unfold in real time without joining the trip or installing anything. It's read-only — they can watch but not score.
Can I rotate the team pairings each day?
Yes. Each round can have its own pairings independent of other rounds. Day one is partners A+B vs C+D; day two is A+C vs B+D. ForeBoard handles the team math across the trip while you decide who plays with who each day.
How are handicaps handled?
ForeBoard pulls course data from 30,000+ courses and identifies the correct stroke holes for the tees you're playing. Each player's handicap is applied automatically — net scoring is available on every format. No more debating who gets a stroke on which hole at the start of every round.
Is the app actually free, or is there a paid tier I'll hit?
Actually free. No premium subscription, no per-player fees, no upsell mid-trip. Casual rounds, multi-day trips, and large tournaments are all free. We say this directly because we know the going pattern in this category — free up front, paywall the moment you do anything real.
What happens if cell service drops on the course?
Each player's phone holds the scores they've entered locally and syncs to the leaderboard once a connection is back. You won't lose data because someone walked into a dead spot on the back nine.
How many players can be on a trip?
No hard limit. ForeBoard works for a foursome and works for thirty-person buddies trips. Same single link, same setup time. The leaderboard scales.
Plan the trip. Skip the math.
Set up your Ryder Cup–style trip in about a minute. Share one link with the group. Spend the rest of it playing.