Golf Handicap: Round Tracker — A golf scorecard that shows where your strokes go

Use an app that records more than the total for each hole, because putts, fairways and greens are what show you where shots are lost. Golf Handicap: Round Tracker saves the card after every change so a locked screen does not lose the round, supports nine or eighteen holes, and lets you tag each miss as left, right, short or long. Saved courses start every later round pre-filled with pars, stroke indexes, rating and slope.

Save at least three rounds on courses that have a rating and slope entered, and the app computes a score differential for each. It then averages the best differentials of your last 20 rounds, applying the small adjustment used while you have few rounds on record. You can also see what your next score would do to the index and which old round is about to drop out of the calculation.

No. The index in Golf Handicap: Round Tracker is an estimate for personal tracking only. The app is not affiliated with the USGA, the R&A or any golf handicap authority, so the number cannot be used for tournament or league eligibility. It is meant for golfers who simply want an honest view of whether their scores are improving.

No maps are downloaded. You stand on or near the centre of a green, tap Mark the Green, and that point is saved to the hole of your saved course. On later rounds the app shows your live distance to it in yards or meters using your phone's GPS. Distances are estimates from the device, not a certified rangefinder, so do not rely on them in competition.

The core is free: unlimited scorecards, saved courses, GPS distances, the estimated index, stats and the practice log, supported by ads. The first AI round analysis is included, and a free player can earn one more each week by watching a rewarded ad. Pro is a monthly or annual subscription that adds unlimited analysis, practice plans, advanced trends, CSV export and no ads, and the price is shown before you buy.

After a round is saved, the coach reads your numbers and writes a short summary: where the strokes went, which misses cost the most and the one thing to work on next. With at least three rounds it also builds a weekly practice plan from a fixed library of golf drills, and you can check off a drill to log it as practice. It works from your own stats, so treat it as a practice guide rather than swing instruction from a teacher.

Golf Handicap: Round Tracker shows scoring average, average to par, best round, fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts per round, three-putt rate and penalties, for one round or the whole season. It also splits each card into off the tee, approach, around the green and putting, worst first, and shows your miss pattern, such as how many tee misses go right.

Yes. A round can be nine or eighteen holes and can be labelled casual, competition or practice. You decide which rounds count toward your estimated index, and a round left out still stays in your history and stats. Net score and Stableford points are available on saved courses that include stroke indexes.

Yes. The practice log records range, putting, chipping, bunker and fitness sessions with a duration and notes, and you can set season targets such as breaking a score or getting your index under a number. That keeps a record running through the winter, so the next round starts from a log rather than from memory.

Scores, courses and practice sessions are stored on your phone, with no cloud backup, so uninstalling the app removes them. Pro can export a CSV file of your season, which is the way to keep a copy. Sign-in is optional, and only your stats, not course names or location, are sent when you ask the AI coach for an analysis.