No roll is worse than a 2.
The cup is 11 squares from the tee.
Pencil & paper golf · iPhone
Eighteen holes.
Eighteen holes.
One die.
Mind the wind.
The die decides how far the ball goes. It does not decide where. That part has always been the game.
Golf as it would be played in the back of a notebook. A round takes about ten minutes. A new course is printed every morning, and everybody in the world plays that one.
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iPhone · iOS 17 or later · free to play
Hole 1 · Par 4
Thistle Bay
- Strokes
- 0
- Lie
- Tee
- To cup
- 11
Par 4. The die decides how far. You decide where.
A faithful miniature — one hole, the same loop. The real thing has eighteen, a deck, and a course that changes daily.
The turn
A number you didn’t choose,
A number you didn’t choose,
and a decision that’s all yours.
Roll. The die tells you the distance — three squares, or six, and no argument. Every square exactly that far away lights up, and one of them is the fairway, and one of them is short of the water, and one of them is the one that leaves you a putt at it if the breeze is kind.
That is the whole game, eighteen times, and it is why two people rolling the same numbers do not shoot the same score.
- The lie helps or it doesn’t. Tee and fairway add a square. Sand takes one away.
- The wind arrives after you commit. Never before. Knowing it in advance would make this arithmetic.
- Six mulligans a round. Spend them when it hurts most, and count what’s left in the tin at the end.
The deck
Twenty cards.
Perfect Weight
Clean Lie
Safe Play
Twenty cards.
Build a deck of eight.
Three offered a hole.
Every hole opens with a choice of three, and the hole in front of you decides which one was worth keeping. No roll is worse than a 2. The rough plays kind for one hole. Nothing above a 4, and the middle firms up.
You get one. It is spent when you play it. And the card you wanted on the seventeenth is the card you burned on the fourth.
The ground is kinder: once a hole it takes nothing, and the rough plays like fairway.
The rough covers 23% of this hole.Nothing above a 4, and the middle firms up.
Water on the left, all the way in.
Every morning
One course. One attempt.
One course. One attempt.
Everybody.
A new eighteen is printed each morning and the whole world plays that one. You get a single go at it — no restarts, no second look, no quietly trying again until it goes well. Your score stands beside everybody else’s, and at midnight it is gone.
Which is the point. A round you can retry until it is good is not a round, it is a draft.
Today’s round
Free, for everybody, always. The daily and its leaderboard are not behind anything and never will be.
The weekend
Three rounds, Friday to Sunday, on one weekly board with a trophy at the end of it. Fifty-two a year.
Casual golf
A fresh course whenever you want one, as many as you like. Nothing counts, nothing is spent.
The book
It writes
It writes
everything down.
Your card, hole by hole, in your own handwriting. Your best round and where you shot it. Eagles, birdies, the holes you’d rather forget, and the mulligan you didn’t need to spend.
It stays on your device. It is never sold back to you, and no part of your own history sits behind a purchase.
One payment. Once.
£4.99 / $4.99 · no subscription, no season pass, nothing else to buy
What it opens
- Every weekend tournament — fifty-two a year, three rounds, one weekly board
- The full archive — every daily ever printed, to play whenever you like
- The stationery drawer — other papers, other pencils, members’ app icons
- Every season after this one — included, always
What stays free
- Today’s round and its leaderboard — the shared page is everyone’s
- Unlimited casual golf, a fresh course whenever you want one
- All twenty cards, and your deck. Nothing about how the game plays is behind this
- Your stats, streaks and history. Yours, never sold back to you
Shared with your family through Family Sharing. Refunds are handled by Apple.
Quietly, and on purpose.
No ads. Not on any page, not between holes, not ever.
No timers. No energy, no lives, nothing to wait for.
No account. Nothing to sign up for to play.
No tracking. Nothing is collected. There is no analytics in it at all.
Works offline. In a tunnel, on a plane, with no signal whatsoever.
One purchase. And it is optional, and it is once.
Pencil, paper, one die, and eighteen holes. That is the whole game.