18 Bogeys

Your golf, on the course and off it. On the course: front, center and back of the green, and every hazard between you and it, on your Apple Watch — with the phone in your bag and no signal at all. Off it: your round history and an estimated index, guided range practice, each club's page, and the holes of a course to look over before you play it. 18 Bogeys is a golf GPS rangefinder for iPhone and Apple Watch. The distance comes first; everything else is optional, and all of it is free. ON THE COURSE Green front, center and back, measured from where you are standing. Every hazard ahead in the line of play, with two numbers each: how far to reach it and how far to carry it. Layup targets, and a tap on the map to measure any point on the hole. A pin you can drag to where the flag is today. Your tee, and yards or meters. THE WATCH WORKS ON ITS OWN The course lives on the watch. Start the round from your wrist, leave the phone in the cart, and the numbers do not change. With Apple Watch, each round is saved as a golf workout in Apple Health. 18 Bogeys never reads your health data. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM The whole course is on the device before you tee off. It is not a cache that fades when the bars disappear: the data is simply there. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT DOES NOT KNOW If a tee was never mapped or a green has no outline, the app says so instead of quietly measuring from somewhere nearby. A confident wrong number is worse than an admitted gap. IF YOU WANT MORE Record shots with one tap, from the watch or the iPhone, and get the scorecard they add up to. Round history, and an estimated index worked out on your phone from your own cards, with the method on screen. It is an estimate, not an official handicap. A club suggestion from the distances you actually hit. Friends, added in person with a QR code or with a link. They see your rounds and scores, never your position. Guided practice sessions for the range. Each club's page: hours, booking, directions and the club's own news. An account is optional, with Sign in with Apple. Without one, everything above except friends works, and your position never leaves the phone. THE COURSES 17 clubs in 5 countries — the United States, Chile, Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy — including 27-hole clubs, where you pick the two nines. Your course is not there? Find it in the list of all courses and tap Request; if you like, the app tells you when it is ready. Course geometry comes from OpenStreetMap contributors under the Open Database License 1.0, and the databases the app reads are published at 18bogeys.app. NOTHING IS SOLD TO YOU There is nothing to buy in the app. No ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking across apps. WHY 18 BOGEYS Eighteen bogeys is ninety strokes. This app is for the golfer who shoots 90: no coach, a couple of rounds a month. You will put one in the water on the 8th and you will laugh about it. We just tell you how far it was. In English and Spanish. iPhone and Apple Watch; there is no iPad app. Distances are approximate and do not replace the markers on the course.