Combine Nines

Play two different 9-hole loops of a 27- or 36-hole course as a single 18 — Canyon out, River in, one scorecard.

What Combine Nines is

A lot of courses aren’t a single 18 — they’re a 27- or 36-hole facility built from three or four separate 9-hole loops (Canyon, Mountain, River, and so on). When you and your group play two of those loops back-to-back as your round, Combine Nines stitches them into one continuous 18 so everything — scoring, your Golfcaster, and the money — behaves exactly like a normal round.

You pick the front nine from one loop and the back nine from another. Holes 1–9 come from the first, holes 10–18 from the second.

Adding a back nine

Combine Nines lives right in the course picker. There’s nothing special to turn on. The option shows up when the course you pick is a 9-hole loop. On a regular 18-hole course you won’t see it.

1. Pick your front nine and its tee the way you always do.
2. Tap Add a back nine, play 18. The picker reopens, already scoped to the same facility’s other loops, so the sibling nines are right there — no re-searching.
3. Choose the back nine and its tee and tap Use this back nine. That’s your 18.

Not sure what it does on the day? Tap the ⓘ next to “Add a back nine” in the app for a quick explainer. To go back to a single nine, just remove the back-nine selection.

How it scores and settles

Once you’ve chosen both nines, the round is an ordinary 18 as far as every game is concerned:

• Par, yardage, and rating add up across the two loops, and the stroke index is spread across all 18 holes.
• Every game settles on the combined 18 — Nassau (Front 9 / Back 9 / Overall), Skins, Wolf, Snake, Match, Stroke, Pot, Pot Skins, FOREMajors, Four-Ball, Scramble, and Vegas. The Front 9 segment is your first loop; the Back 9 segment is your second.
• Handicap strokes allocate across all 18 exactly like a normal round.

Nothing about settling up changes. See Settling Up.

One difference: a Combine Nines round doesn’t count toward your FOREPAID Handicap. Money, games and strokes work like any 18. See Handicaps.

GPS around the turn

The GPS map is tied to the course you picked for your front nine. On the back nine it may not show the second loop’s holes. If the map doesn’t match where you’re standing, keep scoring as normal. Your scores, games and money aren’t affected.

Reading the scorecards

So there’s never any doubt which loop is which, every scorecard labels both nines by name — on the live in-round card, the end-of-round share card, and in your History. You’ll see the loop names (for example Canyon 1–9 · River 10–18) right under the course title.