# Fairways: Golf Course Tycoon — Club Builder & Designer Game > Club Builder & Designer Game (iPhone/iPad app by Luke Welch.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fairways-golf-course-tycoon/id6822689691 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Luke Welch](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788811381) - Category: Games, Sports, Simulation, Strategy - Price: $7.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 310 MB - Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, European Spanish, Swedish - Released: 2026-10-19 - Data updated: 2026-11-08 ## What is Fairways? Turn an empty field into a championship golf club. Design every hole, run the club, then beat 130 rival clubs to host the majors. One purchase. No ads. Plays offline. Fairways starts you with a bare plot, a small budget and room for three holes. Every tee, green, bunker and lake is yours to place. Then golfers turn up and play what you built, shot by shot. NEW: CAREER MODE • Take over a run-down nine-hole club with Margaret, the club secretary, who shows you round one step at a time • Fix the closed holes, win back the members, start a junior section and host the Youth Regional • Then build a resort on the coast, with a hotel and spa, and bring the Championship and the Team Cup to it • Free play and Sandbox are still there, now with the hotel too WHY FAIRWAYS IS DIFFERENT • You design every hole yourself: place a tee and a green and the game works out yardage and par • Golfers really play it: every one picks a club, aims and hits, so scores come from your layout • No hidden design score: build the course you love and let the golfers judge it • A national ranking pits your club against 130 rivals every April • Climb the top 100 and bid to host the Championship and the Team Cup DESIGN EVERY HOLE • Bend fairways into doglegs, shape custom greens and move the pins • Raise, lower and smooth the land, dig lakes and streams, add pot bunkers • Plant woods, lay paths and roads, build walls, hedges and footbridges • Add championship tees and stretch the course for the big events RUN THE CLUB • Set green fees and memberships, and take bookings from societies and company days • Hire greenkeepers, marshals, a mechanic and a club pro • Build a clubhouse, pro shop, café, driving range and halfway house, then upgrade them • Buy neighboring land, research new tools and grow to 18 holes • A real tee sheet: golfers book tee times, members book first, and there's a waiting list when you're full • Every bit of income and spending is in the ledger WATCH IT COME ALIVE • Beginners, casual players and low handicappers all want different things • Follow any group round the course and see where your hardest hole bites • Weather and seasons change how it plays, from summer evenings to winter frost • 31 Game Center achievements to earn ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE • Built for touch: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, twist to turn • Buy once and play on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Parkland, oceanfront or windswept links, any map size, any difficulty, or Sandbox with everything unlocked • No ads, no energy timers, no account, and fully offline Ever stood on a tee and thought, "I'd have put the green over there"? Now you can. Download Fairways and start building your club today. ## Is Fairways safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Fairways. ## Is Fairways legit? Fairways: Golf Course Tycoon appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fairways is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5.2 — 2026-11-07 Build the grandstands for your tournament your way. Long, half and short stands and corner pieces snap together into horseshoes and bowls round any green. Pick up a planned stand to move or remove it, tie stands and TV towers to a hole, and show them from the hole's card. • A rebuilt media centre and hospitality pavilion • New cars in the car park, a new golf buggy and a detailed greenkeeper's mower • Sharper roofs and cleaner close-ups • Turn the camera with Z and X on a keyboard, and Quit on the Mac's title screen • Anonymous stats are now optional: nothing is shared unless you agree • Many interface and translation fixes ### 1.5.1 — 2026-11-02 Fixes the layout on iPhone Duo and other new iPhones, which could show the iPad's layout on a phone-sized screen. ### 1.5 — 2026-11-02 Career mode, a resort on the coast, and a club that books up. • Career: take over a run-down nine-hole club with Margaret, the club secretary. Fix it up, win back the members and host the Youth Regional, then build a resort on the coast with a hotel and spa, and bring the Championship and the Team Cup to your course • Free play: build a hotel and spa too, and found up to two more clubs in your group, sharing their name and their events • A real tee sheet: golfers book tee times, members book first, and when you're full they take another day or play elsewhere. See it all in Golfers › Tee sheet and Demand • A demand meter on the top bar: visitors, members and hotel rooms at a glance • Memberships: places sized to your tee sheet, a waiting list when you're full, and a weekday membership • Grow-in: new holes take time to grow before they open (on in Career, your choice in Free play), or pay to speed one up • Pricing: weekend, twilight and winter green fees, round-and-cart and round-and-lunch packages, shop price levels, a café menu and a seasonal range • Map overlays: grass, waiting, traffic, happiness and land prices, colored onto the course • A new look: darker, sharper menus and the Fairways serif throughout • iPhone Duo: unfold it and the whole iPad layout fills the bigger screen • Accessibility: interface size, reduce motion, solid panels and color-blind friendly colors • Prices in your own currency • Fixes and polish throughout ### 1.4 — 2026-10-30 Fairways now speaks your language. • Play in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch or Swedish, as well as English: the game follows your device's language, or pick one in Settings › Game • Fixes and polish throughout ### 1.3 — 2026-10-29 Your club now has a national ranking, and the majors are up for grabs. • Every April a top 100 ranks your club against 130 rivals on length, grass, reputation, events and facilities • The Championship and the Team Cup are now bid for: the best-ranked club that bids gets to host • A new Course ranking card in Events shows your place, your score and the club just above you • Four new events: a Pro-am, the County open, a Ladies' open and a Seniors' tour event, each held once a year and each counting towards your ranking • Buggies drive round greens, fringes and tees when there's no cart path • Achievement pop-ups stay on screen longer • Send feedback straight from the main menu • Fixes and polish throughout ## More apps by Luke Welch - [TorqueDen: Car Builds & Mods](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/torqueden-car-builds-and-mods/id6788811379) - [Bedtime Story Maker: Bookshelf](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bedtime-story-maker-bookshelf/id6795641286) - [Card School: British Games](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/card-school-british-games/id6799471387) - [Hoot & Fox: Binairo](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hoot-and-fox-binairo/id6812429272) - [The Submariner: Reef Diver](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-submariner-reef-diver/id6818571437) All apps by Luke Welch: https://appshunter.io/developer/6788811381 ## Related topics [fairways golf management](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/fairways-golf-management) · [course builder](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/course-builder) · [fairways golf](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/fairways-golf) · [golf course builder](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/golf-course-builder) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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