MatchPlayKing

What MatchPlayKing is MatchPlayKing is a live golf scoring and social app built for the way friends actually play: match play against your mate, four-ball for the Sunday roll-up, Stableford for the monthly medal, and full Ryder Cup-style team tournaments for society days and club weekends. Most golf apps are either GPS rangefinders or handicap trackers. MatchPlayKing is neither. It is a scorecard and a scoreboard — the thing you pull out of your pocket on the first tee, tap through 18 holes with no signal, and hand around at the bar afterwards. Every round you record feeds a permanent record: your stats, your handicap trend, and your head-to-head history against every person you've ever played. Think of it as Strava for golf, except the point isn't distance — it's bragging rights. Formats you can score Singles match play — hole-by-hole net scoring with full WHS shot allocation, one-tap concessions, and a running match state (2 up thru 12). Four-ball — better-ball match play with two teams, correct shot allocation per player, and live match status. Stableford — points-based scoring with automatic net calculation, including 0 points for conceded holes so an unfinished hole still counts fairly. Practice rounds — score anything you like without it affecting competitive stats. Challenges — asynchronous match play. Post a round, your mate plays theirs later in the week, and the app settles it. Perfect when diaries never line up. Tournaments — Ryder Cup-style team events with sessions, team colours, a live team score, session standings, and a public spectator board you can share by link. Every format uses your real handicap index, locked to your profile so nobody can quietly adjust it before a big match. Live scoring your mates can watch The live scores banner is the heart of the app. As soon as anyone in your friends list starts a round, their course, match state and points appear in a scrolling ticker at the top of your home screen and inside your own scorecard. You can see how the group in front is getting on, how your mate is doing at a different course, or follow the whole society day from the clubhouse. Tournament organisers get a shareable public board — send one link to a WhatsApp group and everyone can watch the day unfold without downloading anything. Stats that mean something Every completed round feeds a stats engine designed around one question: are you actually getting better, and who are you actually better than? Playing to — what your recent scoring says you're really playing off, not just your official index. Scoring breakdown — birdies, pars, bogeys, doubles and triple-plus, plus averages by par 3, 4 and 5. Handicap progression — your index over time, charted. Round momentum — a hole-by-hole chart of where a round was won or lost. Total yards played — a season-long odometer for the obsessives. Head-to-head records — a permanent win/loss/half record against every friend you've played. Match Play Intelligence — compares your match-play performance to your stroke-play performance. "You play two shots better in match play than your index suggests" or "you're +8 against John but -3 against Sarah." Friend leaderboards — handicap ranking and stats league among your own crew, not a global table of strangers. Stats are scoped to you and your accepted friends. Nobody outside your circle sees your golf. Scores you can trust Anyone can type a 4 on a card. MatchPlayKing is built so nobody can quietly inflate their record. Scores count automatically for every player in the match, not just the person holding the phone. Every playing partner can review the finished card. If a card looks wrong, any partner can dispute it within seven days and it's pulled from everyone's stats. Handicap indexes are locked to a player's profile and can only be changed there. Conceded holes are excluded from gross and net totals — the round reads as incomplete on the card — but still score 0 Stableford points, so they count correctly for handicap purposes. The result is a record that survives an argument. Works in the middle of nowhere Half the golf courses in the country have signal like a black hole. MatchPlayKing stores your scoring on your device and syncs when signal returns, so a round is never lost. Add it to your home screen on iPhone or Android and it behaves like a native app — full screen, offline-capable, and persistent, with a built-in prompt walking iPhone users through the Safari install. Push notifications tell you when a friend starts a round, when you're invited to a match, and when a card needs attention. A community, not a leaderboard of strangers MatchPlayKing is social by design but private by default. You add mates by unique @handle — no scrolling through thousands of "John Smith" results. Friendships are mutual: no followers, no follower counts, no strangers watching your golf. The feed is where the round gets relived. Post a card with a photo, share a challenge, and let the banter begin.