PARennial Golf vs The Cut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PARennial Golf
This app provides 24/7 access to an indoor golf studio, allowing users to check bay availability, enter seamlessly, and practice or play without interruptions. Bookings can be made for members or as extras anytime.
- 24/7 self-service access
- Live bay status updates
- Seamless app-based entry
- Unlimited practice and play
- Member and extra bookings
- Round-the-clock support
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Golf on Your Terms. PARennial Golf is Chicago’s 24/7, self-service Trackman indoor golf studio built by golfers, for golfers. Unlock the door with the app, grab a bay, and get to work. No waiting, no wasted time. Live Bay Status Check the feed and know which sim bays are open before you walk in. If one’s free, it’s yours. Seamless Entry Walk up, tap Request Unlock, and you’re inside. No check-in desk, no interruptions. Unlimited Practice & Play Stay as long as you need. If every bay’s full, our turnover system makes sure everyone gets a fair shot. Bookings When You Need Them Lock in time with included member bookings or pick up extras anytime. Round-the-Clock Access & Support Facilities never close, and our support team is always one tap away. Get Playing in Minutes Download, sign in, and get started. It’s that simple.
The Cut
Effortlessly manage golf group games with live scoring for various formats like Skins and Best Ball. Features include GPS yardages, course data, and personalized game props. Organize tournaments and trips with cumulative leaderboards.
- Live scoring for multiple game formats
- GPS yardages and course data
- Customizable game props
- Tournament and trip organization
- Individual game improvement stats
- Player handicap lookup
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The Cut runs your golf group's games the way you actually play them. Start a round in under a minute and invite anyone — players always join free. Pick the game, type the names, tee off. Skins, Scotch, Nassau, Wolf, Best Ball, Scramble, Stableford, Match Play — every side game scored live, strokes handled for you, no arguing in the parking lot about who owed what. SET UP IN UNDER A MINUTE Start a game from the first tee. Look up any golfer's handicap index by name and state, and it fills itself in. Your home course loads automatically. Add the crew once and they're saved for next time. SCORING THAT KEEPS ITSELF Big tap targets, one hole at a time, built for a phone in a cart. Everyone's scores sync live, so the leaderboard updates while you're still walking to the next tee. Track putts and chips if you want the deeper stats. GPS YARDAGES + YOUR CADDIE Satellite view of the hole, rotated tee-to-green, with front, center, and back numbers. Drop a pin to plan a layup. Mark your drive and walk to it to see exactly how far you hit it. Save your club distances once and The Cut tells you what to hit on every shot. GAME WITHIN THE GAME The organizer posts props — "2 or more birdies today?", head-to-head matchups — and everyone takes a side for points. Live pick counts, a running standings board, and alerts that fire to the whole field when the lead changes or somebody makes a mess of a par 3. Points only, always. Nothing here is worth money. TOURNAMENTS AND TRIPS Run a full club tournament with teams, flights, a tee sheet, and a live board. Or build a multi-day buddies trip — a different course every morning, a different format every round, one cumulative leaderboard all week. Ryder Cup mode included, with a real draft night: captains, a coin flip, and snake picks. PLAY AGAINST YOURSELF Solo rounds put you head-to-head with your own best round at that course — stroke or match play, this year or all time. GAME IMPROVEMENT Scoring average, putts per round, one-putts and three-putts, chips, and how you score by course length. The coach reads your numbers and tells you where the strokes are actually going. PLAYERS ALWAYS JOIN FREE Only the organizer running the event needs Member. Everyone you invite scores, watches the board and keeps their own stats without paying a thing — ever. Member unlocks full tournaments, multi-day trips and GPS, and every new account gets a 14-day trial to try all of it. The Cut Member is $99.99 per year. It renews automatically through your Apple Account unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → Subscriptions. The Cut keeps score in points. It never handles money, never processes a wager, and never takes a cut of anything. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PARennial Golf at none against The Cut's 1. PARennial Golf also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). The Cut's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. The Cut sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. PARennial Golf asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Cut holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PARennial Golf has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PARennial Golf ships an update every 2 weeks, The Cut every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PARennial Golf | The Cut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PARennial Golf | Josh Kastan |
Customer experience
PARennial Golf
The Cut
In-app purchases
PARennial Golf
No in-app purchases
The Cut
- The Cut Member$19.991 Year
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