For the one who runs it
Every trip has
one of you
Somebody books it, chases the handicaps, works out the shots on the first tee and adds up the points at the bar. score70 is built for that person. You are the only one who needs an account — the rest of the group just needs the link.
An email and a password. No card, no app store, no trial clock.
- Players on the roster
- 12
- Rounds set up
- 4
- Accounts needed
- 1
A sample trip, drawn with the real components. The names are invented.
The job you already do
A spreadsheet, a group chat and a pencil
The sheet only opens properly on the laptop you left at home. The handicaps are in a message from March. Somebody has the card in a back pocket and it has been raining since the ninth.
None of that is a failure of organisation. It is four days of scoring being held together by one person with no signal and a pint in the other hand. score70 takes the parts that are mechanical — the shots, the points, the totals, the arguing — and leaves you the parts that are actually yours.
What you get
Four things that change the week
The trip gets an address
You name the trip and you choose its URL. score70 checks it against every other trip as you type, so once it is yours nobody else can take it — that address is the trip, not a tab in your downloads folder.
Nobody else signs up
This is deliberate, and it is written into the permission rules rather than left to chance. Anyone holding the link can read the trip and enter a score. No account, no app, no password on the first tee with one bar of signal.
The handicap maths is done
Course handicap off slope, course rating and par, the way the World Handicap System sets it out. Full handicap in stableford, the full difference in singles, 90 per cent of it in four-balls, allocated hole by hole down the stroke index.
It works with no signal
Every tap is written to the phone first and queued there, so it survives the app being killed. When a bar comes back the queue replays and the rest of the group catches up. This is the difference between a scorecard and a spreadsheet.
Year two takes minutes
Enter it once, keep it forever
Players and courses belong to your group, not to a single trip. Type the twelve names and their handicap indexes once, add the course with its slope, rating and stroke index once, and next year you pick who is coming and you are done.
Trip adjustments. Cut a shot off the man who has been quietly improving all winter, for this trip only. His stored handicap index never moves, so next year starts from the truth.
The record stays. Every round played on the trip stays attached to the group, so who won what is a thing you can look up rather than a thing you remember.
This trip’s handicaps
Organiser only
- Rob EllisHI 8.49
- Micky DoyleHI 12.1−211
- Sam HartleyHI 16.818
Course handicap off the tees you are actually playing. The butter tag is a cut for this trip only.
Open to score, closed to wreck
Everyone can score. Only you can change the trip
A link that anyone can score from only works if a stranger who finds that link cannot take the trip apart. So the app draws one line, in one place, and everything sits on one side of it or the other.
Anyone with the link
- View the trip
- Enter and edit hole scores
- Watch the boards from home
No sign-up. No download. Not even a name.
Only the organiser
- Create, rename or delete a trip
- Create or delete a round
- Edit a handicap index or a trip adjustment
- Add, edit or remove players and courses
- Manage teams and the roster
Nobody deletes a round on a Thursday night by accident.
Settled before the first pint
The arguments settle themselves
Nobody has to be talked round, because nobody has to be believed. The boards are built from the scores that went in on the course, and they are the same boards on everyone’s phone.
- Stableford
- Ryder Cup
- Teams
- Match play
- Pairs
- Birdies
- Skins
- Stats
What the account is, plainly
An email and a password, and here is what it is for
It gives the trip an owner. Handicaps, rounds and the setup answer to one person, and that person is you. And it puts a name on the scores you enter, so when four phones have been passed round all day the card knows who typed what.
That is the whole of it. It is not a paywall, there is no card to enter, and it buys nobody else anything — the rest of the group never signs up at all. Registering as a player grants no extra powers either: only the trip’s organiser can change the trip.
Run the next one properly
Make the account, name the trip, send the link. The group can be scoring the same afternoon, and none of them has to sign up for anything.