Access by Troon vs Down The Middle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Access by Troon
Book tee times at Troon-managed golf courses and earn rewards. Features include mobile check-in, secure payments, and group invitations. An optional premium subscription offers exclusive rates and benefits.
- Book tee times across Troon's golf network
- Mobile check-in
- Secure payment processing
- Invite friends to your group
- Earn rewards points for bookings
- Access Premium subscription for exclusive benefits
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Troon® is the world’s largest professional club management company. Access by Troon is the easiest way for golfers to find and book tee times across Troon’s network of resort and daily-fee courses, with convenient features like mobile check-in, secure payment, and the ability to invite friends to your group. Every round booked through Access earns points redeemable for free or discounted tee times at participating golf courses. Upgrade to Access Premium for exclusive rates, guest passes, automatic status upgrades, and faster rewards earning. Play more, earn more, and experience golf’s most rewarding booking app with Access by Troon.
Down The Middle
This golf app provides a more accurate handicap by using every round played, not just the best ones. It offers detailed analytics and allows users to track friends' progress. The app updates handicaps instantly after each round is posted.
- Truer golf handicap calculation
- Track every round played
- Instant handicap updates
- Detailed round analytics
- Follow friends' progress
- Database of 40,000+ courses
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WHAT IS DOWN THE MIDDLE? Down The Middle is a golf handicap app built for the amateur golfer who wants a handicap they can finally live up to. Traditional handicap formulas are designed to make your handicap as low as possible by cherry-picking your best rounds. The result? An unrealistic expectation of your typical performance and a number that puts pressure on you every time you tee it up. Down The Middle takes a different approach: A TRUER GOLF HANDICAP Down The Middle uses every round you play, not just your best ones — and we input them into a proprietary, statistically weighted formula that accounts for recency, course difficulty, and historical playing tendencies. The result is a handicap that actually reflects how you typically play golf. TRACK EVERY ROUND Post your round in seconds from over 40,000 golf courses in our database. Select the tees you played and the course rating and slope populate automatically. Also view the full details of every round you play via the round detail card. And unlike other handicap services, your handicap updates instantly after every round you post. ANALYTICS Dive deeper into your round history and see important stats such as your all-time lowest score, lowest handicap achieved, scoring average and how often you outplay your handicap. Also visualize your playing trends with a trailing twelve month chart. CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Follow your friends in the playing partners tab and track their handicap ups and downs, recent round activity, and hot and cold streaks — all in one place in the News Feed. MEMBERSHIP Down The Middle is $49.99 per year. No hidden fees or gimmicks — just a truer golf handicap. Learn more at dtmhandicap.com Privacy Policy: https://dtmhandicap.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://dtmhandicap.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Down The Middle at 5.0 against Access by Troon's 3.5. Down The Middle also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). Access by Troon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (34 vs 2). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Down The Middle sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Access by Troon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Down The Middle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Access by Troon has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Access by Troon ships an update fortnightly, Down The Middle daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Access by Troon | Down The Middle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Troon Golf, LLC | Ryan Cantrell |
Customer experience
Access by Troon
Down The Middle
In-app purchases
Access by Troon
No in-app purchases
Down The Middle
- Annual Membership$49.991 Year
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