Comparison

USGA vs Fore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

USGA

Stream live golf coverage of featured groups and track real-time scores for all USGA championships. Follow your favorite players with personalized updates and access on-site tools for attendees, including mobile ticketing and course maps.

Highlights
  • Free live streaming of featured groups
  • Real-time scoring and statistics
  • Personalized player tracking with AI recaps
  • Mobile ticketing and on-site tools
  • Full-screen vertical story highlights
  • Latest tee times and push notifications
Features
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Your all-access pass to USGA championship golf. Stream Featured Groups live for free, track real-time scores across every USGA championship, and follow your favorite players from the U.S. Open to the U.S. Women’s Open Presented by Ally and beyond. Key Features: FREE LIVE STREAMING Watch Featured Groups coverage of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open. See the world’s best players take on the toughest courses. LIVE SCORING & STATISTICS Follow every round of stroke play and every amateur match in real time. Favorite unlimited players to build your own custom leaderboard, and watch every televised shot from eight USGA championships with highlights embedded right in the player scorecards. PERSONALIZED PLAYER TRACKING Follow your favorite players for AI-powered round recaps, stat comparisons, and tailored highlights. Create a USGA Profile to sync favorites across the app and the championship website. ON-SITE TOOLS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP ATTENDEES Heading to the course? The USGA app is your perfect caddie for the day: • Mobile ticketing – manage, transfer, and resell tickets directly in the app • Interactive course map for the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open • On-site push notifications with fan-specific updates and logistics HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEO Full-screen vertical story highlights put you closer to the action. Plus on-demand video, photo galleries, and the latest news from every USGA championship. TEE TIMES & NOTIFICATIONS See the latest tee times as soon as they are available. Turn on push notifications for score alerts, top highlights, and updates on the players you follow—including Live Activities for select championships. CHAMPIONSHIP SHOP Rep your favorite championship by shopping exclusive USGA merchandise, all within the app. Find the latest styles and special offers.

About

Fore

This app is a social networking platform designed for golfers to connect with others, organize games, and track scores. It facilitates finding playing partners, running competitions, and building a golf community.

Highlights
  • Golf social feed
  • Connect with golfers by handicap/industry
  • Organize and join tee times
  • Run golf competitions
  • Live scoring for rounds
  • Handicap index calculation
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Fore is the social network for golfers, the modern clubhouse. Find your foresome, follow your friends' rounds, score live, and grow your golf community. Golf is one of the last places people still connect in person. But most of us do not have a country club, or the community that comes with one. So every round starts the same way: the same group chat, or showing up alone and hoping to get paired with someone decent. Fore is built to fix that. It is not a GPS, a swing analyzer, or another tracking app. It is a social network built specifically for golfers. THE CLUBHOUSE Your feed. See your friends' recent rounds, their scores hole by hole, and the moments worth talking about. Like, comment, and give someone a hard time about the back nine. CONNECT Meet golfers who actually match your game. Filter by handicap so you are playing with people at your level, by where they are based, or by industry to network on the course instead of over coffee. TEE TIMES Post an open seat in your group, or claim one in someone else's. Invite the members you want to play with, and see who is already in the group and what they play to before you commit. LIVE SCORING Score a round together on your phones. Everyone's card updates as you play, so the group sees where they stand on the walk to the next tee. Stroke play, match play, scramble, Wolf, Nassau and skins. EVENTS Run a real competition: a scramble, skins, match play, or a full Ryder Cup with teams, sessions and a running points board. Describe your event in plain English and Fore builds the structure for you, pairings and side games included. LEADERBOARD A monthly points ladder for the whole club, earned hole by hole from real scores, plus head-to-head records against the people you play with most. YOUR HANDICAP Fore calculates an index using the World Handicap System method once you have posted enough rounds, so the numbers on your card mean something. OPEN TO PLAY Tell the club when you are free and Fore matches you with open tee times and members looking for a game. MEMBERSHIP Every member is reviewed before they join, because a community is only as good as the people in it. Request access in the app and we will get back to you quickly. Find your foresome. Grow your golf community.

Screenshots

USGA4 screens
Fore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fore at 100% against USGA's 37%. Fore also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). USGA's advantage is ratings volume (22K vs 19). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: USGA has 22K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of USGA's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
USGA versus Fore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUSGAFore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (22K ratings)5.0 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22K — better19
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB39 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperUnited States Golf AssociationBRUCE EDWARD COPPOLA

Customer experience

USGA

All ratings22,385 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive36.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative56.7%

Fore

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

USGA

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Glitches with adding/removing favorite players
  • Inability to navigate back in the app
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

3 requests
  • Auto-refresh function for leaderboards and scoring
  • Ability to customize favorite players
  • More comprehensive live coverage and video highlights

Fore

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

USGA

No in-app purchases

None

Fore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is USGA free?
USGA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fore free?
Fore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, USGA or Fore?
Fore is rated higher. USGA averages 4.7 out of 5 from 22K ratings, while Fore averages 5.0 from 19 ratings.
Do USGA or Fore have ads?
Neither USGA nor Fore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, USGA or Fore?
USGA ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fore every 3 weeks. Most recently, USGA was updated on October 25, 2026 and Fore on October 24, 2026.

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