My CDGA vs Golfer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My CDGA
Manage your golf game and membership with this app. Post scores, track stats, view progress graphs, and access your Handicap Index. Connect with clubs and discover member benefits.
- Post hole-by-hole scores
- Stat tracking
- Progress graphs
- Handicap Index access
- Member card display
- Club directory and contact
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My CDGA, the app that puts Chicago District golf and your CDGA membership at your fingertips, is available to all Association members with an iPhone device. My CDGA allows you to do the following from the convenience of your mobile phone: * Post home or away hole-by-hole scores from any course in the world, as well as view scoring history. * Utilize stat tracking when posting hole-by-hole scores, including fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts and more. * View graphs to track on-course progress when posting hole-by-hole scores and utilizing stat tracking during or after the round. * Utilize the integrated mobile application Leaderboard, which allows CDGA members to ink their Handicap Index® and score posting data and features social and on-course tools like GPS and game tracking. * Access your Handicap Index® quickly, view current handicap label and Handicap Index® history, calculate your course handicap and search member peer review. * Display CDGA member card and handicap label. * Utilize Peer Review and designate favorites for quick reference for any golfer around the country with a Handicap ID. * Connect with CDGA member clubs, view member club directory, map directions to a club and contact a club. * Browse various member benefits, such as up-to-date Member Perks, as well as participate in member-only contests like CDGA Fantasy Golf presented by Tour Edge. * Keep up with the Chicago District Golf Association, contact the CDGA, lookup event and tournament information and view your CDGA membership(s).
Golfer
This app simplifies golf handicap calculations for groups and courses. It offers quick access to handicaps for any tee, allowing users to organize friends, family, or league players and favorite courses. Data is saved locally and on iCloud for access across devices.
- Group player setup
- Course and tee organization
- Rapid handicap access
- Local and iCloud data saving
- Cross-device data synchronization
- New interface for easier access
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With the recent changes, the calculation of handicaps for any tee has become more complicated. You can get handicaps for any tee from websites or apps, but it requires a number of steps through the process to get them. The Golfer App lets you setup groups of players and courses for the family, friends or league that like play together, and provides fast access to tee handicaps for anyone in your groups. Friends, family or league player groups can be setup to get rapid access to tee handicaps. Golf course tees can also be organized in groups of favorites. Once setup, selecting any golfer will show that persons handicap for all of the tees in all of the groups. Similarly, selecting any tee will show the handicaps for all players in all groups for that tee. The new version has been updated with a new interface providing easier access to handicap information for players and courses. Your golfer data is now saved locally on your device as well as on your iCloud Drive, making your data available anywhere with good or weak connections. This latest version has several improvements helping you get quick access to handicaps on the golf course, while still allowing you to use the same data on your other iCloud connected devices when you need to review at home. This version will also operate on a single device without an iCloud Drive connection, storing the information locally.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Golfer at 5.0 against My CDGA's 4.0. My CDGA's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Golfer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.
My CDGA ships an update every 5 months, Golfer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My CDGA | Golfer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Duhamel Group, LLC | Gordon Thomson |
Customer experience
My CDGA
Golfer
Bugs and requests
My CDGA
Reported bugs
41 issues- Takes upwards of 15 times tapping next
- Multiple members found with same login credentials
- Need to restart multiple times before functional
- App crashes immediately after revisions
- App crashes when updating
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- Not recognizing CDGA number or email
- App crashes all the time
- App hardly ever works
- Won't let you post scores
- Fonts too small
- Peer review favorites does not work
- Shows wrong date for posted rounds
- Recent upgrade makes app unusable
- App won't open
- App crashed again
- Not recognizing my CDGA number or email
- Crashes all the time
- App fails all the time
- Has to reinstall every 2 days
- Too many crashes
- App crashes multiple times
- Cannot login
- Not working
- Shuts down and will not load
- Latest update does not work
- Crashes every time I start it
- Still crashes
- Can't even launch
- Crashing when I try to post a score
- Quit working
- Shuts off as soon as it opens
- Crash, crash, crash
- Does not stay open
- BIG PROBLEMS WITH LATEST VERSION
- Never stays open
- The app won't stay open
- Have had to delete and re add this app 3 times
- Latest update does not work
- App won't open
- It wouldn't open, just splash screen then nothing
- Fatal bug at startup
Requested features
6 requests- Merge with GHIN
- Extreme makeover needed
- Update the app
- Refresh the app's look
- Add a favorites tab to monitor friends
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- Add Peer Review Favorites page
Golfer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My CDGA
No in-app purchases
Golfer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is My CDGA free?
Is Golfer free?
Which has better reviews, My CDGA or Golfer?
Do My CDGA or Golfer have ads?
Which is updated more often, My CDGA or Golfer?
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