Changelog
Features and improvements we've shipped recently.
A Ryder Cup or team day can now be three 6-hole games: when you add a round, pick Holes 1–6, Holes 7–12 or Holes 13–18. Each six gets its own format and its own matches, so you can play Best Ball, then Alternate Shot, then Singles in one 18. Strokes fall exactly where they would over 18 holes, and points work the way your event already does: a point per match or per hole.
Step-by-step help for setting up, scoring and sharing, with every format explained and every answer checked against the app. Search it at leaderboardlive.io/help.
On the scoring screen, drag any card by its ≡ handle to put the group in the order you like, usually yourself first. Partners and the two players in a match stay side by side. It only changes your screen: the board and everyone else’s scoring stay as they are.
In the Ryder Cup match builder, tap the × on any match and both sides go straight back to the available players, ready to pair again. Drag a match by its handle to change the order. Scoring links follow the change.
A new individual format. Points on every hole against net par, and a net birdie puts you on tilt: your next hole counts double, another birdie makes it triple, and an eagle counts as two birdies. It cuts both ways, so a double bogey on tilt hurts. Anyone on tilt lights up the live board with "On tilt · 2x" under their name, and the format name at the top of the board opens the rules. The full guide, with a worked example, is on our blog.
Pick the team that holds the cup in Manage, under Format. The holders keep it on a tie, so the board shows each side its own target, like 14 to Retain and 14½ to Win. When the holders get there first, or the cup ends level, the board says they retain the cup.
The Ryder Cup builder lays out a whole trip for 8 to 24 players: rounds, formats, matches and the points it takes to win. Happy with it? Set this up turns the plan into your event in one tap, with every round already in place on Manage. Find it as Ryder Cup Planner at the bottom of any page on our site.
Open any match on the board and the hole by hole is a proper card: circles for birdies, squares for bogeys, a Par row, and Out, In and Total. The ball that won each hole is underlined in its team color. Flip between Net and Gross, and when your event spins off the low man you can see exactly what each player plays off in that match, like 13 → 5.
Every four ball and singles round now has skins worked out for you: lowest net score on a hole wins it, off each player's full course handicap, and ties roll to the next hole. Switch rounds or see the whole event, and flip to gross if that's your game. Every name on Stats also shows its handicap, and each list opens to the top 3 with See all for the rest.
Finished rounds roll up to their final score so the board stays short, and lists and cards now open and close with the smooth motion you'd expect from an app on your phone. Scorecards keep player names pinned while you swipe through the holes. And if a score hits a hiccup while saving, it quietly retries until it lands, so nobody has to tap it twice.
Net team tournaments get a Handicaps step after Rounds with three switches: use course-adjusted handicaps (enter a Handicap Index and the app works out the course handicap for each round from the tee played), individual tees per player, and spin off the low handicap. The Players step adapts to what you chose, and all three switches live on Manage too, so nothing is set once and locked.
The sound toggle is off the leaderboard action bar, which keeps the bar to the things you tap during a round. Turn moment chimes on or off under Settings, Preferences. It applies to the device you set it on.
On the Scoring Links page each side of a match now sits on its own line instead of wrapping mid-name, and the player names at the top of the scoring sheet are sized to fit on one line each.
Adding a player used to mean a permanent form taking up space above your roster. Now it's a "+" next to "Not in a group" that flies out only when you need it, so the roster itself gets more room.
Text a link and the preview card tells the story before anyone taps: the tournament, the round or session, and the match, player, or group it belongs to. Spectator links show the tournament and its live score. The message itself is now just the link, so it pastes clean into a browser instead of turning into a search.
New colors, real typography, and consistent spacing throughout, top to bottom. Nothing about how the app works changed, it just looks and feels sharper.
Setting playing groups for a large field is easier now. Add players, drop them into groups, and grab each group's scoring link, all on one screen, with every group's status right there on its card so you can see at a glance who has started. Groups hold up to five now, not just four, and a field of four or fewer groups itself with one tap. And on a multi-round event, each round starts with its own clean slate: building the next round's groups never touches an earlier round's groups or the links you already sent out.
Scores appear on the leaderboard the moment someone enters them, with no need to pull down and refresh. This affects every format, team and individual, plus the Scorecards view. Clearing a score syncs too, so if a playing partner fixes a mistake it disappears from everyone else's screen right away.
Scorecards, Player Stats and the end-of-tournament Recap now slide open right on the leaderboard instead of loading a separate page. Tapping Score opens your card straight away rather than bouncing you through a page load first. Player Stats is also reachable on a phone now, from the bar at the bottom of the screen.
Stableford and individual match play events had no scorecard view at all. They do now: the same hole-by-hole grid stroke play has always had, with par, stroke index, and gross and net side by side.
A small Net and Gross switch sits above the leaderboard on stroke-play events. Net is how the event is scored, and Gross shows who actually shot the lowest round regardless of strokes received. It only appears when handicaps are in play, since otherwise the two are the same.
Score entry now waits a beat after your last tap before saving, so pausing halfway to the number you meant no longer commits the wrong one. Your score still saves on its own, and it saves immediately if you close the app or lock your phone mid-entry.
New tournaments now default to every player using their full course handicap. Spinning off the low man is still there whenever you want it, and setup asks which you want as you build any net event rather than leaving it buried in Manage. Tournaments already running keep the setting they have.
The Scoring Overview page isn't just for stroke play anymore. Every session gets its own scorecard: real per-player grids for Singles and Four Ball, side-by-side rows for Alt Shot and Scramble, and a simple hole-by-hole result strip for older tap-based matches.
Every session in a Ryder Cup tournament now has its own Net or Gross switch. Run Sunday's Singles on net handicaps and Monday's Four Ball scratch, in the same event. Set it when you add the session, or flip it any time from Manage.
Hole Points and Match Points now work the way stroke play always has: everyone enters their real strokes on every hole, and the app decides the winner from net score using each player's own handicap. Works for Singles, Four Ball, Alt Shot, and Scramble. Tournaments already on the older tap-to-pick-a-winner system keep working exactly as they do today.
See every player's full scorecard, every hole, for every round, from one page. No more clicking into each player individually. If Skins is turned on, a Skins Leaderboard sits at the top and the hole each player won gets highlighted right on their card.
Flip on Skins when you set up a Stroke Play event and the field competes hole by hole, not just for the overall total. Lowest score wins the hole outright, and a tie carries the skin into the next hole. Shows up on the leaderboard and the new Scoring Overview page.
Anyone watching a stroke-play tournament can now pull up a live Player Stats page right from the leaderboard. It shows best round, scoring average, longest par streak, and a full pars/birdies/eagles breakdown for the whole field, updating in real time as scores come in. No sign-in required.
Signed-in golfers can now see their all-time stroke-play numbers in one place: rounds played, tournament wins, best round, scoring average, and eagles/birdies/pars, aggregated across every tournament you've played on LeaderboardLive.
The hole-by-hole scorecard now uses the marks you'd actually draw on paper: a circle for a birdie, a double circle for an eagle or better, a square for a bogey, a double square for worse. Par holes stay clean with no mark at all.
On phones, the menu you had to open with a hamburger button is now a bottom tab bar that's always on screen. Events, Tournament Hub, and Settings are one tap away. The Manage pages for a tournament now stay inside this navigation too, so you never lose your way while running an event.
Quick Play now offers Match Play for 2-4 individual players. Lowest net score wins the hole, and if two or more players tie for low, the hole is halved for everyone. The leaderboard ranks by holes won.
Team games now show Best Ball, Scramble, Alt Shot, and Stroke Play. We removed the separate Match Play option since it played identically to Best Ball in a single match. Match Play now lives under Individual instead.
Tournament Hub organizers can now send each group its scoring link by email with one click, instead of copying and sharing links manually.
On desktop, the left sidebar now stays visible everywhere you go. Golfer, Events, Tournament Hub, and Admin (for admins) are always one click away, no more hunting through header buttons.
The Registration card now sits at the top of the sign-ups page, and cards are constrained to a readable width instead of stretching full screen on wide monitors.
Tournament Hub events can now cap sign-ups at a max number of players and show an entry fee right on the sign-up page. Once a capped event fills up, the page automatically closes to new sign-ups.
The Tournament Hub builder now shows exactly what players will see. Click the banner to upload, click the welcome message to edit it in place, and flip fields on or off directly on the mock form. No separate editor to check against a preview.
Tournament Hub events now get a page builder: add a banner image, write a custom welcome message, and choose which fields you collect (phone, handicap). Create a Hub straight from the Tournament Hub tab.
Open a public sign-up page for your event, mark players paid, and add them straight to your roster. The new Tournament Hub tab shows every event’s sign-up status, payments, and playing groups in one place.
Players now see exactly which holes they get a stroke on, right on the scoring page, with net scores shown alongside gross.
Bucket individual-entry players into groups of up to four and share a single scoring link per group, instead of one per player.
