Back Nine vs Golf Tournament Stats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Back Nine
Create and share visually appealing golf scorecards with customizable themes and branding. Personalize your scorecards with country flags, logos, and unique color palettes extracted from images. More features are planned for future updates.
- Customizable scorecards
- Themed scorecards
- Image-based color themes
- Country flag addition
- Logo integration
- Shareable scorecards
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Back Nine enables you to create beautiful shareable score cards for your golf rounds. Back Nine offers many themes to showcase your golf scores. Our favorite is the Blend theme which extracts colors from your image and builds a beautiful theme custom for your image--a different theme every time! In addition to themes, you can add your country’s flag to your scorecard. You can also add a logo from your organization, tournament, or golf club as well! More themes and features are in development, including importing data from a picture of your actual score card! Privacy The app contains no ads and collects no personal information because we respect your privacy.
Golf Tournament Stats
Track your golf game hole-by-hole with detailed stats and live sharing. Get shot-by-shot analysis, GPS mapping, and AI-powered insights to improve your score. Integrates with Apple Watch and Siri for hands-free operation.
- Hole-by-hole stat tracking
- Live round sharing via iCloud
- Apple Watch integration for shot tagging
- Siri and Shortcuts for hands-free control
- GPS Shot Map with lie and distance analysis
- Strokes gained analysis
- AI coaching insights
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Golf Stats turns every round into a clear picture of where your next stroke is hiding — and lets the people who care about your game watch it happen live. Built with guidance from John Riley, PGA Professional, it tracks the hole-by-hole stats a coach actually looks at, maps every shot on satellite imagery, and shows you where your strokes are really going. Made for junior golfers, their coaches and parents, and anyone who wants to improve on purpose. Free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account to create. WHY GOLFERS SWITCH TO GOLF STATS • Score from your wrist, your phone, Siri, or the Action Button — whatever keeps you in the game • A coach or parent follows your round live, hole by hole, with just a code • Every shot lands on a satellite map, with the lie detected for you • Strokes gained and miss patterns tell you what to practice next LET A COACH OR FAMILY FOLLOW ALONG — LIVE • Share a live round over iCloud with a short code, a link, or a QR code • Followers watch it update hole by hole — no account needed • Pin followed players to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — one live card shows everyone's thru and to-par • Optional push notifications every few holes, after each nine, or when the round finishes TRACK SHOTS FROM YOUR WRIST — APPLE WATCH • Tag a GPS pin for every shot, straight from your wrist • Dictate a shot — "7 iron, fairway, uphill" — and the club, lie, and slope fill in for you (on-device Apple Intelligence) • Set the flag and score the hole from your tracked shots before you move on • Change holes with the Digital Crown or a swipe HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI, SHORTCUTS & WIDGETS • Score a hole, tag a shot, set the flag, or jump to a hole with Siri or Shortcuts — on iPhone and Apple Watch • Put Tag a Shot on the Action Button, Control Center, or the Lock Screen • Keep your current hole — and the live standings of players you follow — on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and watch face • No sign-in and no Siri setup; everything stays on your device MAP YOUR ROUND, SHOT BY SHOT • A satellite Shot Map on every hole — a pin for each shot and one for the flag • Save a course's map offline and the Shot Map keeps working with no signal at all • Distances drawn automatically between shots (yards in play, feet on the green) • Each shot's lie is detected from the course map — green, fairway, bunker, rough, or water • "Plays-like" distances factor in uphill, downhill, and the wind • A Strategy button plans the hole shot by shot — where to aim, what club, which side to miss on, and the score to expect, modelled from your own shot pattern • Tag club, lie, stance slope, penalties, and relief to see exactly where strokes are won and lost THE STATS A COACH ACTUALLY USES • Fairways, greens in regulation, putts, penalties, up-&-down, and miss direction • Strokes gained off the tee, on approach, around the green, and putting — against PGA Tour, scratch, a 5/10/15 handicap, or bogey golfer • Round summaries with scoring and putting breakdowns and a club-distance chart • Ask AI for a coaching read on a finished round — on-device Apple Intelligence highlights what went well and what's costing strokes, or hand the summary to ChatGPT or Claude SHARE AND EXPORT • A crisp, printable scorecard PDF with strokes-gained summaries and shot-map pages • A spreadsheet (.xlsx) with per-round, scoring, strokes-gained, club-distance, and shot-detail sheets • Export several tournaments as one PDF or spreadsheet with a combined summary • A .golfstats file a coach or parent can open and import ALSO INCLUDED • Look up any course and tee worldwide to import par, distance, and handicap index • Current weather from your location, hole notes, review flags, and an editable club bag Your data stays yours: rounds live on your device, and live sharing only sends what you choose to share. Play your next round with Golf Stats and find out where your strokes are hiding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Golf Tournament Stats at Free against Back Nine's $3.99. Golf Tournament Stats also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Back Nine's advantage is chart position (#198 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Golf Tournament Stats is free to download; Back Nine costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Back Nine against 5.0 for Golf Tournament Stats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Back Nine ships an update every 6 months, Golf Tournament Stats every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Back Nine | Golf Tournament Stats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Focused on Fit LLC | Teruyuki Morimura |
Customer experience
Back Nine
Golf Tournament Stats
In-app purchases
Back Nine
No in-app purchases
Golf Tournament Stats
No in-app purchases
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