Say goodbye to spreadsheets, WhatsApp chaos, and your mates forgetting their tee times. ParUp Golf, the all-new, free-to-use smartphone app, has officially launched – bringing order and excitement to fuel the bragging rights for golf groups and societies everywhere.
Whether it’s your weekend fourball with mates or a 40-person society trip that’s more logistics than leaderboard, ParUp Golf has one mission: make organising golf days stupidly easy and outrageously fun.
Free to download now on the App Store and Google Play, ParUp Golf is designed for golfers who take their social rounds just as seriously as their short game. The app brings slick planning tools, intuitive scoring, and more formats than your club pro’s weekend comp sheet.
But it’s not just about scores. It’s about banter, bragging rights, and creating excitement ahead of a weekend tee-time or trip away. This is social golf, gamified—with enough features to keep your group entertained between rounds and enough polish to impress even the most old-school club captain.
The app can be used for scoring purposes by individuals playing solo rounds and by two or four friends playing matchplay, plus any number of golfers taking on stableford or strokeplay golf within their group or society.
Key Features of ParUp Golf:
Schedule Group Events: Organise events at more than 39,000 golf courses worldwide;
Share & Invite Members: Seamlessly send an event link to ensure group members can join instantly in just one click;
Highlight Key Event Details: Share event times, costs, prizes and other key information, plus track attendance and payments;
Digital Scorecards: Easy-to-use scoring system with minimal clicks for a best-in-class user-experience;
Live Leaderboards: Allows golfers to see real-time scoring for both individual and team events during the round;
Multi-Round Series Scoring: Track multi-round series leaderboards for weekend trips or season-long events;
Team Formats & Side Games: Enables organisers to track longest drive and nearest the pin competitions and offers players a fun way to interact on golf days;
Play Friendly Rounds: Ability to set-up casual rounds with friends anytime.
“We built ParUp Golf to initially solve a very specific problem: making group golf easier and way more fun. Organising golf trips and society days shouldn’t feel like a full-time job and with ParUp, it doesn’t need to,” said Co-Founder Ian Lowther. “The response since launching our new app has been incredible. We’ve seen new groups created and events played in over 25 countries already. It gives us even more belief that we’re building something the golf world has been waiting for, a new digital home for social golfers everywhere,” he added.
The digital clubhouse
ParUp Golf users can build up a golfing network by inviting friends to join the app, where it is then a simple process to create friendly rounds in various playing formats and look back on their scoring history. The smart scoring system does all the heavy lifting – no more scribbling on soggy cards or debating whether that was a ‘gimme’. Strokeplay, matchplay or stableford, – ParUp Golf handles it in real time, so golfers can focus more on their game.
For groups who like to keep things fair-ish, the app’s optional auto-handicap feature adjusts as you go, helping to keep the comp spicy across weekend trips, midweek knockouts, or full-blown season-long leaderboards. Because nothing keeps a golf group honest like cold, hard stats, especially when setting up social side games, handing out forfeits or the fight to avoid the wooden spoon. Within the app, organisers can also manually adjust handicaps based on a group’s own unique rules after each event.
“ParUp Golf is here to shake things up for golf groups and societies. We’re building something that challenges the old-school golf experience, making it more inclusive, more interactive and way more fun,” said fellow Co-Founder Andy Dymock. “And we’re only just getting started. We’ve got big plans to keep gamifying the group golf experience with more side games, social features and playful ways to compete coming soon,” he added.
