Foreboard

No. Nobody signs up. The organiser makes the day and gets a six-character code; each player types the code (or taps the link) and picks their own name.

On the start page, choose the kind of day. A casual game (free, one fourball with your friends) takes four quick steps: the day, the holes, the players, then check and create. A corporate golf day is set up on one page, on your phone or a laptop. Type the course and pick it from our list of South African clubs, and the par, stroke index, tees and hole distances are filled in for you; for a course not on the list, copy the par and stroke index from the club's card. You get the day's code for the players and a four-digit organiser PIN for yourself. Fines and side prizes are added in Setup once the day is made, and everything else can be changed there.

A fourball is a group of up to four golfers playing together. One phone in each fourball keeps score for that group: the organiser picks the scorer in Setup and sends them a scorer link with a six-digit scorer code, so nobody else can score for that fourball. Everyone else follows along live.

It depends on the format the organiser picks. Foreboard has fourteen: 4-ball alliance (best one, two or three scores, or all four, to count), individual Stableford, betterball Stableford, medal (net or gross), betterball medal, bogey, scramble, shamble, greensomes and foursomes. Stableford formats use each player's full playing handicap: two points for a net par, three for a net birdie, one for a net bogey, none for worse or a pick up. Medal formats count net strokes (gross strokes in gross medal), and a pick up is a no return. Each format's rule is shown when you choose it. Ties are settled on the back nine, then the last six, three and one holes.

The organiser sets the fines and their amounts; the scorer taps who and what during the round, and everyone sees the tally. Nearest the pin and longest drive winners are picked on the board. When the organiser closes the day, Foreboard shows what each player owes for entry and fines. It does the sums only; it moves no money.

Keep scoring. Scores entered without signal are kept on the scorer's phone and sent as soon as it reconnects.

If you saved an email address when you made the day (or later in Setup), tap Organiser? Sign in with the PIN on the day, then Email me the PIN, and we send it to that address. The organiser link you can send yourself when the day is made also unlocks Setup on any phone. The PIN is also shown in Setup on any phone that has already unlocked it. Without the PIN, the link or a saved email, the day can still be scored and followed, but not changed in Setup.

Yes, in the browser: open thumbfort.games/golf in Safari and add it to your home screen. The app itself is on Google Play for Android.

No. Foreboard is free to use and shows no adverts.

While it is open, then seven days after the organiser closes it; it is deleted thirty days after that. The privacy policy has the detail, and you can ask for a day to be removed sooner.