GPS

Live front / middle / back yardages, full-course aerial detail, and auto-advance — on 20,000+ courses.

What you see on the GPS screen

The GPS view shows a top-down aerial of the hole you’re playing. The course is rendered in full detail: fairway, rough, bunkers, water, trees, cart paths, and the green. A blue dot marks your current location, and your live yardages are on screen the moment the view opens.

Three color-coded flags on the green carry the numbers: red = front, white = middle, blue = back. All three update in real time as you walk.

Opening the GPS view

You don’t — it opens itself. The map is the round’s home screen: starting a round lands you straight on the GPS Hole View, with scoring, the ☰ menu, and Russ all riding on top of the aerial.

Prefer the classic score grid? It’s one tap away: ☰ menu → Classic scoring.

Distances — front, middle, back

• Middle of the green — the white flag, your default club-selection number. Updates in real time as you walk.
• Front of the green — the red flag. Your carry-it-on number when trouble guards the front.
• Back of the green — the blue flag. Your don’t-fly-it-past number.

The distances follow you shot to shot — walk 40 yards up the fairway and the numbers walk with you. No taps, no waiting for a fix: the view opens with your yardage already up.

Auto-advance as you walk

The GPS view auto-advances to the next hole when it detects you’ve moved to its tee box. You don’t need to swipe or tap to change holes — just walk to the tee and it follows.

If auto-advance doesn’t catch the change (rare, usually a GPS-fix issue), use the Prev / Next hole controls to jump manually. (Prev hides on hole 1 — nothing to go back to.)

The map follows your ball

As you play the hole, the map pans down the fairway with you — keeping your position and the green both in view — so the aerial always matches where you’re standing. It yields the instant you touch the map to look around, then eases back to following on your next shot.

Move the pin to today’s flag

The pin starts at the center of the green. Drag it to where the flag actually is today and every distance re-reads to that exact spot — your true “to the pin” number, not just center-green. The pin stays put for that hole.

Green Slope — read the break

Tap Green Slope on the Hole / Green / Green Slope toggle and the green fills with a StrackaLine slope map — color-coded contours for how steep each part is, arrows for which way it breaks, and grade numbers for the percent of slope. It’s the same pro-grade green read the tour caddies use, on your phone before you putt. A compass keeps you oriented, and the map stays inside the green’s real outline.

Russ caddies the round

Reach a tee and Russ sets up the shot — hole number, par, the shape (“dogleg right”), and which side the water lives on — spoken from your pocket, no taps. Reach the green and he hands you the putter. Two moments per hole, driven purely by your GPS.

The view follows your feet too: walking onto the green flips the map to a zoomed Green View automatically, and arriving at the next tee flips it back. Want an early look? Tap the green on the map to zoom in — tap away from it to zoom back out. The Hole / Green / Green Slope toggle above the hole pill always works manually — Green Slope overlays StrackaLine slope contours and break arrows so you can read the green before you putt.

Club calls & My Bag

Tap CLUB on Russ’s rail and he calls the shot for the number on screen. Out of the box he speaks in buckets — “that’s your one-fifty club.” Set your carry distances once in Profile → My bag and it gets personal: “About one fifty-five, out. I’d go 8 iron.” Works in every round and in free GPS Only mode.

Russ’s rail — Club, Scorecard, Standings & Mute

Russ’s avatar anchors his rail on the right edge of the map — it lights up ON AIR whenever he talks. Under it sit four buttons: CLUB (your club call), SCORECARD (the live card — every player, gross and net, who owes who), STANDINGS (he speaks where the round stands — the money, or the low card in a friendly round), and MUTE (silence Russ on your phone only; the rest of the foursome still hears him).

Accuracy & signal

GPS accuracy depends on satellite signal. Out in the open on most courses, distances are accurate to within a few yards. Under heavy tree cover, near tall buildings, or in poor weather, accuracy degrades.

Battery tips

GPS is the single biggest battery drain on any golf round — not unique to FOREPAID, true of every GPS app. To stretch battery on a 4-hour round:

• Close the GPS view between shots. Opening it only when you need a distance saves substantial battery.
• Lock your phone between holes. The app stays on the round, but the screen drains less.
• Carry a battery pack if you typically lose phone battery on long rounds — same advice we’d give for any golf GPS app.
• Low Power Mode on iOS is safe to use; FOREPAID still works.

Course coverage

We cover 20,000+ courses globally via our course-data partner. If a course isn’t in our catalog, you’ll see “Request this course” in the picker — tap it and we’ll add the course as soon as we can.

The Twin Cities and most major US metros have full coverage. International courses, smaller municipal layouts, and recently-renovated courses may have outdated data. Report issues to support@forepaid.app and we’ll get it fixed.