What's New

Changed

• CHANGEVegas follows the standard double-digit rule: a 10 or more puts the high number first, so a 4 and a 10 makes 104.
• CHANGEZelle now asks “Did the payment go through?” when you come back from your bank app, instead of marking it paid on the tap.
• CHANGEThe Leaderboard is Low Gross and Low Net, and every net row shows the handicap played off.
• CHANGEPlus handicaps: type +1.4 on the players screen.
• CHANGEFOREPAID now runs on iOS 18 and later.

Fixed

• FIXGuests claiming a round can type the 6-digit code from their email.
• FIXCleaner wording across setup, settle, standings, the Booth and Home, with names shown as First L. everywhere.

Changed

• CHANGEThe written recap now covers every skin and Nassau result, in the order they happened.

Fixed

• FIXHole previews play reliably when you reach the next tee, even right after you save a score on the pad.
• FIXThe arrows on the score pad no longer set off a hole preview.
• FIXNames with stray punctuation, like “Don W.”, now read cleanly.

New

• NEWText everyone the scorecard. When a round with guests closes, the host can send one group text from their own phone with the scorecard link. Skipped it? There’s a button on the Final screen. See Guest Players.
• NEWGuests save their own round. On the web scorecard, a guest taps their name, enters their email, and taps Save my round. When they sign up with that email, the round is already on their profile.
• NEWA Welcome card on Home for new players whose round was saved for them, with a link to their scorecard.
• NEWA menu for the Rangefinder. Pick who calls your clubs and switch between voice and text only, right from the map. Change course and Exit live there too.

Changed

• CHANGEMUTE now sits at the bottom of the rail on every play screen and turns red when muted, so it’s easy to spot and hard to hit by mistake.

Changed

• CHANGEEvery round uses the official World Handicap System Course Handicap: your Index times Slope ÷ 113, plus (Course Rating − Par), rounded the official way. 9-hole rounds use the official 9-hole formula, and a solo round uses your full Course Handicap. See Handicaps.
• CHANGEPlayers on different tees now follow the official rule for mixed tees, so strokes stay fair when your group splits up.

New

• NEWA How strokes work explainer on every game.

New

• NEWFOREPAID on Apple Watch. Your yardages and your score on your wrist during a round.
• NEWA live card on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island while you play.

Changed

• CHANGEThe app download is about half the size it was.

New

• NEWMeet the Golfcasters: Russ, Ian and Sloan. The host picks the voice for each round. Play Solo and the Rangefinder have the same choice. The Booth tab lets you listen to all three. See The Golfcasters.
• NEWThree trash-talk levels for every voice: Friendly, Spicy and Uncensored.

New

• NEWTwo more games — FOREMajors™ and Vegas. FOREMajors splits your 18 into six 3-hole matches with pots and a Crimson Jacket for the champion; Vegas pairs team scores into one number and lets a birdie flip the other side’s digits. That makes twelve games. See Games & Bets.
• NEWWolf and Snake, right on the score pad. A gold banner names the hole’s Wolf with one-tap partner and Lone Wolf buttons, and a snake button beside each name marks a three-putt on the spot. No menu trips.
• NEWA wolf howl and a rattlesnake. The howl leads every Lone Wolf declaration; the rattle strikes when the snake moves — and again at the wrap for whoever’s stuck with it.
• NEWPlays-like with wind. The plays-like number now folds in live wind on top of elevation, with the breakdown on screen: PLAYS 488 · HILL −7 · WIND +18.
• NEWTrack your stats. An opt-in fairways / greens / putts compass on the score pad — miss long, short, left, or right — with a My Stats dashboard on the History tab. Three-putts feed the Snake automatically.
• NEWRuss calls the match. First blood, 2 up with 4 to play, wins it 3&2 — singles matches and Nassaus get a live announcer.
• NEWSilent mode. How Russ reaches you — out loud or silent — is now a per-phone choice at round start, changeable mid-round.
• NEWNet scores, said out loud. With handicaps on, Russ says “net birdie” and the skins drill-down labels net results — no more wondering why a 5 got celebrated.

Changed

• CHANGEPress prompts now arrive only over the closing holes (15–18) — where the drama lives — and one tap opens the press sheet.
• CHANGERuss’s library roughly doubled: every level from Friendly to Uncensored now has equal variety, Lone Wolf calls got a full fresh set, and lines don’t repeat within a round.
• CHANGEThe score pad sizes itself to your group — airy for a solo round, compact for a foursome with stats open — and you can swipe it between holes.

Fixed

• FIXThe round wrap no longer reaches for retired “homie / hustler” lines — clean calls only.
• FIXReplay Russ moments on the Final screen now carry readable labels (“No blood”, “Lone Wolf called”) instead of internal names.

New

• NEWPot Skins — a ninth game. Everyone antes into one pot; skins are points you earn hole by hole (par or better), and at the end the pot splits by skins won — it always splits, nobody takes it all. Tap the Pot Skins line on Standings, Settle, or History for the full math. See Games & Bets.
• NEWScramble — a tenth game. Two-man teams, best shot: both hit, play the best one, and the team posts one score each hole. Match or medal. See Games & Bets.
• NEWName your team — in Scramble and Four-Ball you can name each side, and Russ calls them by name all round.
• NEWRuss’s Standings read now calls both the score and the money for every game — who has the low card, the match position, and what’s on the line if it holds.

Changed

• CHANGEThe game picker is grouped into Individual Games and Team Games, with a player-count tag on every card so you can see what fits your group at a glance.

New

• NEWRuss caddies every hole — at each tee he previews the shot (hole number, par, doglegs, which side the water lives on), and calls the green when you walk onto it. No taps — pocket your phone and he rides along.
• NEWClub calls & My Bag — tap CLUB on Russ’s rail for a spoken club recommendation. Set your carry distances in Profile → My bag and he names your actual club: “About one fifty-five, out. I’d go 8 iron.”
• NEWRuss’s rail on the map — CLUB (a club call), SCORECARD (the live card), STANDINGS (a spoken read of where the round stands), and MUTE (silence him on your phone). The avatar lights up ON AIR whenever he talks.
• NEWRuss talks on pars and bogeys now, calls “no blood” on tied money holes, and tracks streaks with a graduated ladder — back-to-back, three straight, and still-going.
• NEWSpicy, Nuclear, and Uncensored got a full re-cut — sharper and rawer at every level.
• NEWFree GPS Only mode now includes Russ club calls — a rangefinder with a caddie’s voice.

Changed

• CHANGEGreen View is automatic — walk onto the green and the map zooms in; tap the green any time for an early look.
• CHANGEHole previews fire when you physically arrive at the tee — whoever’s keeping score, wherever your round starts (back-nine and shotgun starts included).
• CHANGEAfter the hole-9 turn report, the next hole’s preview politely waits until you tap Done on the standings.
• CHANGEThe in-round ☰ menu is regrouped (round · Russ · exits) and “Russ Audio” is now “Foursome audio.”

Fixed

• FIXWater-side calls in hole previews (left / right / both sides / carry) are now validated against real course geometry.
• FIXEvery clip Russ plays is audited so he never claims more than the round’s data can back up — no more “three in a row” on hole 2.
• FIXApple Maps attribution repositioned so the Legal link is always visible on the GPS view.

New

• NEWFriendly (no-wager) rounds. Start a round with no bet — tap Start Friendly Round on the game screen. Russ keeps the trash talk but says nothing about money, there’s no settle screen, and it’s tagged “Friendly” in History. See Getting Started.
• NEWThe Pot — a seventh game. Everyone antes, the lowest net takes the whole pot, ties split it. Winner-take-all. See Games & Bets.
• NEWFour-Ball — an eighth game. Classic 2-on-2 partners: only your team’s better ball counts on each hole, and the winning side splits the win. Needs a full foursome. See Games & Bets.
• NEWPick your starting hole. Set 9 or 18 holes and pick any starting hole at round setup — for shotgun starts and crossover tee times.
• NEWGPS follows your ball down the fairway toward the green, plus a movable pin — drag it to today’s flag for exact to-the-pin numbers. See GPS.

Changed

• CHANGEMore Russ variety — birdies and repeat blow-ups now escalate and pull from bigger pools, so he stops repeating himself when the group catches fire.

Fixed

• FIXThe turn report lands on hole 10 no matter which screen you finish the front nine on, and it won’t re-fire late if you backfill a skipped hole.
• FIX“Fill in missing scores” drops you onto the GPS map at the empty hole, and finishing a no-wager round goes straight to the recap.

New

• NEWColor-coded pin flags on the GPS green — red = front, white = middle, blue = back. Your three yardages at a glance, no letters to decode.
• NEWInstant yardage — the GPS view now opens with your distance already on screen instead of waiting for a fresh GPS fix.

Changed

• CHANGERuss finishes the hole-9 score calls before the Turn Report — “Sam, birdie! And with that — front nine’s in the books.” Same fix on 18: the walk-off chirp plays before the round wrap.
• CHANGECleaner GPS close button — a labeled chip that tells you where you’re headed (Score / Scorecard / Done), and Prev hides on hole 1.

Fixed

• FIXGPS view could open black on the first launch after a fresh app start — fixed.
• FIX“scratch” no longer wraps mid-word in the strokes explainer at larger text sizes.

New

• NEWCombine Nines — play two different 9-hole loops of a 27- or 36-hole course as one 18. Pick your front nine, tap Add a back nine, and both loops stitch into a single scorecard. See Combine Nines.
• NEW@username — set a handle on your profile so friends can find you instantly when they build a round.

Changed

• CHANGEIn-app explainers — new ⓘ info tips on Add a back nine, Presses, and Wolf/Snake, plus the three post-round phases (Reviewing / Locked / Closed) on the Settle screen.

New

• NEWPost-round Russ narrative — a 3-sentence recap of every round, generated by AI and read in Russ's voice.
• NEWFirst-tee intros — Russ announces every player to the first tee by name when scoring opens on hole 1.
• NEWScore color and shape system: birdies wear a green circle, eagles a gold double circle, and bogeys a red square. See the full ladder on the Scorecard.
• NEWPublic web scorecard — every settled round gets a shareable forepaid.app/r/<id> URL, viewable without the app.
• NEWMark Paid Undo: a 5-second Undo snackbar after every "Paid in cash" / "Already settled" tap on the Settle screen. (Later removed. Marking a debt paid now can’t be undone in the app.)
• NEWHelp & Support — this site. We'll keep expanding it based on what testers ask about.

Changed

• CHANGERuss is on by default for every player at round start. Mute is still per-player and per-round.
• CHANGENet-vs-gross policy locked: Russ's score chirps use your net score when handicaps are on (except hole-in-ones, albatrosses and eagles, which are called on your real score).
• CHANGECourse catalog is now driven entirely by our partner data source. If your course isn't listed, tap Request this course and we'll add it within a day or two. (That button was later retired. Now just email support@forepaid.app.)

Fixed

• FIXSkins now correctly award double for birdies, triple for eagles, and quadruple for double eagles, with the multiplier following the wager's metric (gross or net).
• FIXHole 18 chirps no longer cut off when you tap Settle.
• FIXRound cancellation propagates to every other player's phone in real time.
• FIXThe score-conflict warning now reliably appears on every device when two phones disagree on a score.