GHIN App Reviews

LOTS of Issues With App. When the app works it’s very, very good. Awesome app for tracking your handicap and looking up others. The concept of the GPS app is very solid, would be amazing if it worked. Sadly, it does not in many ways called out by others in reviews. You tee off to play and the app is signed out, won’t sign back in, had to change my password while trying to play the other day. That was enjoyable, forget the Apple Watch interface, changes holes throughout your round. I paid for the upgrade options, in doing so I did have a basic expectation that the app would work. It does not, feel ripped off and not willing to go through what I am sure will be a massive hassle to get a refund. USGA should be ashamed of yourself, looks like from many reviews they think all is good. A real shame, could be a really good product.

Almost works…. Had the app for a couple of years and it mostly worked fine. The app would occasionally shut down during use but upon restart you could pick up where you left off and the scores for holes you played would be retained. In the past 6 months something has changed. When the app restarts all your scores are gone and it only shows the first 9 holes. So basically you have to record on a paper card while using the app. Kind of defeats the purpose of electronic scoring. When I tried to get help via their email I get no response. So I can’t recommend paying for this app which is kind of a shame because when it works it has some nice features.

Watch integration issues. The app is pretty good on the course with GPS distances and other tips. On the Apple Watch I didn’t like that almost every time I wanted a distance I had to click the crown button and find and select the app. Other watch apps keep the GPS distances on screen automatically. The. Halfway through the round it seemed to disconnect from the phone and I saw no way to resume them. I gave up and used a different app. I’m glad the first round of “enhanced” GPS was free.

Great yardage but keep crashing. The app is great for yardage. I use it now instead of my garmin gps since the GHIN app is updated for our course renovations (new bunkers and widened fairways and greens) and garmin is not. Also wonderful at tracking stats and playing match play (gross or net) with friends. Only 3 stars because the app keeps crashing when I review my scoring history by course and the mobile app does not work well (yardages not accurate, app crashes, could not post scores). Otherwise 5 stars!

Unable to enter scores. Using version 4.6.1. I played last weekend and was unable to enter hole-by-hole scores, with or without stats. I could view the GOS view of each hole, but couldn’t switch to the scorecard view. Posting a score after the round appears to work. Might this have something to do with the date of play being outside the active score posting season for my region?

App constantly restarts. This app often restarts and asks to either Finish the round or Delete the round. Hitting finish will resume where you left off. This happens to quite a number of golfers at my club. No issues with cellular service either. Another issue is that after nine holes and making the turn, sometimes the app will not allow me to enter scores for the back nine. It only displays the nine holes played, even though I selected 18 holes when I started the round. I really like this app and want to use it, but it is really frustrating that this has been happening for a long time.

There are better pay apps out there.. The pay features on this app are lacking. I paid for the app just to get club distances. First of all, the clubs you’re using are not customizable in the app. For instance, I cannot take out a gap wedge and replace it with a 60*. Second, there is nowhere that I can find to review the club distances anywhere in the app. What is the point in tracking them if you can’t review them and formulate averages for each club? I’ve reached out to customer support and have yet to receive a response. Really, the only thing the app is good for is the free features which is yardage and tracking your handicap. So don’t waste $60 per year.

Occasional Issues. I’m happy with the yardages as it is always within a yard or two of other golfer’s range finders. Took a little while to get familiar with how to work through scoring a round. My main problem is that it often returns me to the home page and I have to start again, telling it to finish my round so it goes back to the course I’m playing. Today, it kept reverting back to hole #2 even though I was on the back nine. When I manually moved to the hole I was playing, every time I tried to enter my score, it closed the app. I tried restarting my phone, but that didn’t work. I wish it was more reliable in this regard, especially after paying $50 for the upgrade. Needs work!

IWatch App locks up. Tried the watch app during 3-4 rounds. Locked up every time. Had to restart on phone to get the watch app to start working after lockup. Send email to USGA support. Response: We have not received reports of the Watch app freezing as long as there is an active cellular service or wifi connection established. The GPS uses the geolocation of your phone so as long as you have a connection and your Cellular Data/Location Services options are turned on, the GPS should function as expected. If there is a loss in service, there will be a delay in the yardage updates.

Golf Lookup feature. Search for a golfer on the aystem is horribly flawed. Many times registered players don’t show up. I hope they read this and fix it. Still doesn’t work all the time. Seems like once you create a favorite list of someone like Smith you can never add another person with the same last name ! It won’t search the data base. FIX IT !

Hopeful this would be the solution I was seeking. I have upgraded to use the enhanced features of the app and I am still encountering issues when using the watch. The most annoying issue is that the watch will periodically disconnect from the phone app during a round and it is difficult to get the phone and watch re-synced. I like the options available to track shots during a round, but I don’t like losing the shot data for half a round because the app needs to be restarted on its own terms. It’s a little too buggy for me. I wish the support was better as well. I won’t be renewing the subscription features unless they can get the app debugged before my subscription renewal.

Disappointing Handicap scoring. One good round over a year ago dropped my index by 5 strokes. Since then I’ve played my normal, struggling way which is never breaking 90 for the past 15 rounds. I’ve entered my scores under other apps and my index is correct. Using this app, my index has never changed. This app is not updated properly, your rounds scores vs your index will not be accurate, and only leads to people abandoning the app, and the handicap process altogether. Get it together start managing this app like it deserves.

Awesome but stats have issues. Posted last couple rounds in August and September 2024, no matter the score it shows I hit GIR stat (I post hole by hole with stats as often as possible). Not a big deal but I like to keep stats so hopefully you can fix it. Also each hole defaults to bogey score when posting now as hole by hole. Again not a big deal but annoying to keep changing score when posting. Thanks!

Lots of bugs. I purchased the annual $39 upgrade and am disappointed. The connection with Apple watch (was the main selling point for me) drops every round. I need to restart the ghin round on the iPhone to reload it. The app on the watch drops frequently requiring me to reload. I’ve done all the ‘fixes’ including adjusting the phone and watch settings. So - my annual subscription is now useless - - I’ve gone back to my ‘Golf Buddy’ device which never fails and which has just had a $20 battery replacement (DIY). My golf partners are also happy that I’m no longer putzing with my phone/watch instead of playing the game.

Mediocre at best. Doesn’t work if there’s no cell signal. Even when there is it sometimes refuses to load. Doesn’t provide an error message telling you what’s wrong. When it works it’s slow to acquire the GPS signal and gives wildly varying yardages until it stabilizes—takes too long and slows play. Doesn’t allow you to download the course at home. Has to download each time you start a round. Doesn’t show aerial photos but uses stylized course maps. Accuracy is okay when everything is working.

Simple fix?. Enjoy the app, though only use for keeping score and then post-round posting. Agree with other comments that it’s a nuisance having to re-click “GHIN” to have it reappear on the face after lowering hand. Biggest gripe, though, is that the user should be able to change face element colors—such as to white background with dark lettering. That, or make the hole being played white lettering (or some other higher contrast color, such as bright yellow). Right now “Hole” appears as gray on a black background in a smaller font size. In bright daylight, this is VERY difficult to clearly see—particularly if one is older and needs “readers” (that I don’t wear while playing golf).

GPS Doesn't Work Properly. It loses track of the course constantly during rounds and I have to re-enter the course that I'm on, wait for it to "download" again, and then find the hole that I'm on every time I want to look at yardage or enter my score. So, it's just not good and very annoying to try to use the GPS. If that were fixed it would be a great app, but it simply doesn't work as a GPS app. Look elsewhere for that. It gets 2 stars for being able to enter scores to GHIN. But that's pretty generous still for such a simple task.

Cellular Failure. The app seems to rely on the cellular network for something, which results in frequent crashes on golf courses with zero to two bars. Unless you have entered a score for at least one hole, the app then needs to download the course data again, which is not possible with poor cellular coverage. If you have entered a score, then you have to go through a multi-step process to restart the round, which means delaying everyone. Good luck maintaining your focus on the game when you are wrestling with the app. The Apple Watch integration seems to create more instability.

RECOMMENDED UPDATE. Please update the GHIN App “My Courses” option of the Profile section to allow the user to designate one of the courses as default “HOME”. I recognize that it can be done when starting a round but that option does not standout and I (and many of my golf buddies) fail to select it. I also understand that if I joined through my home club it would be the default. However, it is a lot more convenient for me to renew my membership on-line.

Apple Watch app needs work UPDATED. UPDATE: Both issues were fixed in the latest update! I changed my rating from 3 to 5 stars. Please allow for disabling turning the grown to switch holes. My glove turns the crown, so I’m always on the wrong hole. Also, the app keeps closing, even if I set Return to Clock to 1 hour. I need to reopen the app on the phone and hope it syncs with the phone app, which is still tracking a round. Find out how the other golf GPS apps make it work.

Not worth the money. The basic app is great for inputing scores for handicap calculations and golfer lookup , etc. since this part is basically supported by the yearly fee for the GHIN , it’s worth that portion of it. However, the $39 for the annual upgrade is a waste. The functionality of the gps and scoring functions are crude when compared to less expensive and much more robust apps like Golfshot +, etc. Considering the amount of data that the USGA has on each golf course, one would think the app would reflect it. The bug when using the Apple Watch feature has been well documented by others in this forum but it’s is amazing that this hasn’t even been fixed in the well over a year since the gps portion of the app came out. I will not be renewing next month when it comes due.

Okay app; needs improvements. A couple of things. I love daily GHIN updates, when playing a lot of rounds it’s great. Also love you’re bringing in some of the stuff from GolfLogix. It’s great. I want to use the app for distances - but practice rounds alone aren’t scoreable, and I don’t have the ability you use the app without scoring / marking it as an alone round. Additionally the app just won’t load sometimes. Many devices - all the same. The change was recent and it’s like it’s locking up and timing out during authentication.

Great Potential. Support is non existent. I have been using the app for several years. I use it essentially as an electronic scorecard with the added bonus of automatically submitting for my handicap. It is helpful for match situations with built-in net scoring and even has flexible percentages of net strokes. It is also decent at keeping track of statistics, though there are other apps which are more powerful and offer more granularity, like club and putt distances. The thing that is annoying is that my course, which is a top course in the state, does not have the green heat maps. I know they exist because other apps offer them. I have emailed the developer on several occasions and only get the message "you have already submitted this request," with no path forward. Additionally, the app occasionally has a bug which does not allow proper score input, and reverts to the keyboard instead of the numerical pad input which gives an error in advancing to the next hole. Lastly, the Apple Watch integration has promise, but crashes too many times to be useful.

When it works, works great but….. I paid for a year subscription, because the first few times I unused it it worked well. Loved the heat map and the gps, the watch, not so much. Nowadays it’s unusable and way behind other apps that are free. The phone app is great when it works but it keeps closing itself and you have to go through the whole process of starting it from the beginning, which takes a couple of minutes, not something you want to be doing 5-6 times a round. Also the heat map green is supposed to orientate itself based on where you are on the green, it does not do a good job of that. Unless this app, get a lot better on the next month (which is when my subscription ends) I will not be renewing.

App crashes and loses scores when keeping score for a group. Bug in current version would not let me save around of scores with a group gave me an error. Something to the effect of something must be greater than one tried finishing the round half dozen times every time it crashed deleted the round tried to score another round with a group and partway into the round, the app crashed lost everyone else’s scores except mine and when I continued to try to keep my score, it indicated that I needed to enter in everyone else’s scores to the whole last crashed and then it crashed one more time so I had to stop keeping score for the group and keep my own score only.

Watch app doesn’t work. I have been using the GHIN app on my iPhone for several years without issues. I upgraded the app so it would work with my iwatch ultra2. It worked for a few holes then lost it’s connection with the iPhone and requests I restart the round on the phone. This is hard to do doing your round and continues to occur throughout play. I should be concentrating on my game not this app. I noted numerous issues with other players about this app since its last update. What’s taking so long to fix the problem. I paid a yearly subscription so I can use it on my iwatch. Otherwise would have just used the free version on the phone. Can we please fix this. I’m sure we would all appreciate it! Update: I downloaded the latest updates to this app a few weeks ago. After using the app on Multiple rounds I’m pleased to say the app on my iwatch is now working as intended. There are no lost connections and the app on my iwatch and phone are stable. Thank you very much for fixing this issue. It really is very much appreciated.

Posting hole by hole is broken.. For the last 2 seasons I used the app as a scorecard, posting hole by hole while playing… enter hole scores 3 at a time then save, then hit post & finish round, enter the next 3 holes & repeat this process until finished. For the last couple months when I try to do this the app frequently loses the saved hole by hole scores. I have also had a number of cases where I set up an 18 hole round, complete the first 9 holes, hit post & finish round to enter back 9 holes only to have the app re-open the round as a 9 hole round with no ability to enter back 9 hole by hole. Something broke! I like the app but these 2 problems have greatly diminished its utility.

UI Feedback. App works great and I use it every week. I do have feedback on the interface though. On the enter score/scorecard screen there are two buttons below the scorecard and above the keypad. They are GPS and Post Score. You post your score one time a round, but you potentially switch back to GPS from scorecard on every hole. There is no need for the buttons to be the same size and there is every reason the gps button needs to be bigger. If you’re riding in the cart towards your ball and you’re trying to tap the gps button as you approach, it can be difficult to tap the small gps button just right to get it to switch over. Give me a big old gps button to mash please.

Better system. I have a soft cap on my handicap. I believe it is a result of one great round I played at my home course in August. That dropped my index way down. It’s a little disappointing that my index is being constricted because of that. You know it is possible to have one good day on the links in an entire year. Especially if you were a very good golfer at one point in your life. It’s still in there. I just can’t get it to come out nearly as often as I would like. Quite honestly, it’s embarrassing ring the index I am. But it’s what I am. I’m getting older. Can’t hit it as far or as straight. My body doesn’t always cooperate. Can’t practice as much as I would like because of my back. Wish the system could take everything into consideration.

Much improved - very competitive. The most recent release is significantly improved. It is stable and works very well with an Apple Watch. The GPS is fast and accurate. The green maps - heat maps and putt views are easy to use. Overall the app is much improved over the past few months. An area for enhancement would be to provide customized stat graphics similar to other apps such as Hole 19 or 18 Birdies. The app keeps getting better. Well done.

Mediocre at best. There is no feature to configure what stats should be tracked. Other apps offer a means to select which stats are important to you. Like bunkers (green side and fairway), penalties and others. Simply recording how you missed the fairway or the green doesn’t always tell the whole story. Also, if you start a round from a hole other than 1, it doesn’t let you proceed past 18. You have to arrow backwards to find hole 1. This is cumbersome on the golf course. GHIN should partner with other better apps so scores can be input from them. GolfLogix is my personal favorite. This way you could choose the app that serves you best. They, of course, could even require part of the app fee be shared with them for maintaining usga handicaps. Golflogix is not perfect, but much better than the ghin app. Unfortunately I’m stuck with the ghin app to maintain my handicap.

Gah!. I loved this app the last two summers. It worked so well with my watch. This year, I’m lucky to even get it to connect to my watch. When I actually do get them connected, it will disconnect almost every hole and if it’s still connected, it will not show distance from the hole, only the score input screen for that hole will show up on my watch. I want my money back!! I will not renew next year if this does not get fixed. Other than that really big problem, I love the app. It’s easy to use and a nice looking app. Please fix this!! Edited: with the update it works for me better than ever! I hope it sticks! Thank you!!

Worthless App. I got this app when it finally was available on Apple Watch and I paid for a one year subscription. I have tried using it several times but have never got it to work for more than one hole. It’s clunky, it will stop if you get notifications such as Ring or messaging and you have to restart. When you do it has no idea of which hole you’re, so it’s impossible to know far it is to the green. If I could get my money back I would. The other issue is that you have to download the course information every time you start a new round (or try to get back to the one the was messed up with notifications).

Constantly crashes. I really enjoyed this app early on and was even paying for the extra features then an update a few months back caused it to start crashing periodically mid-round. I can usually get back to where I was in the round and will still have my score but it takes a minute which is absolutely not what you want when your standing over your ball ready to get a distance. Until the bugs are fixed, I’ll be searching for something else. Really worked well for me when it actually worked.

App crashes consistently. I’ve used the app to track my scores and this year decided to upgrade to the premium for the GPS and heat maps. The GPS is great… when the app works. The app constantly crashes, 6-7 times per 18 hole round. I have to open the app, get a pop up that asks if I want to finish the round, then it takes me back to the last hole. It’s pretty frustrating that this happens so consistently and unless I see improvement over the course of the season I will not be renewing the premium level next year.

USGA doesn’t care about quality!. I have consistently had problems with the GHIN app shutting down during my rounds. Sometimes I can restart at the point it shutdown, but sometimes I have to restart from the beginning. I have written multiple times to the USGA providing screenshots showing the sequence of events and they just reply sorry we can’t replicate which I can understand, but other times I get an instant reply which indicates they haven’t even bothered to review what I have provided. They seem to be more interested in making enhancements than fixing problems. I have other friends having the same issues but don’t bother sharing but just complain. As a paid subscriber it bothers me they don’t care about customer support! If you want people to use it get it fixed!

Poorly designed, poorly supported, such a great start, but bad. Ok I love the app for the ease of scoring and the GPS function, when it works. So much to possibly like, but….. There is no way to use the score/scorecard function without using GPS…. But why wouldn’t you want that?? Because, the GPS is so poorly designed my fully charged phone usually doesn’t make it through 18 holes without running the battery down (iPhone 12 pro with battery effiecency of 88%) AND…. My local private club, a Pete dye course, has the wrong gps course attached, so the GPS is worthless. I have submitted two feedback forms to the app, with no response and no change. Nothing like being on the 4th hole (par 5) of a championship course and it saying you are 2357 yards away from the 5th hole of the non rated executive course. But, they have the scorecard correct. Just asleep at the wheel… Then, my son and I started to play 18 on Sunday evening but decided to stop at 9 holes instead. Well, when scoring for multiple people there is no way to end the round early and post only the 9 holes…. Again, do the developers or employees not use the app?? Every time you boot the app and try and play it tries to get you to pay $40 a year for more features, but the basics don’t even work. Don’t get me wrong, I really like some aspects, but I assumed with the USGA name in this that the basics would work and they would have some basic supports.

Apple Watch App Doesn’t Work. I was excited to see that they finally made the app available on the Apple Watch, but like others that have posted it works poorly or if at all. It worked one time for me and it kept closing between shots and I had to reopen the app on the watch every time. This is poorly designed - it should remain open and active on the watch until the user closes it. Since the one time it “worked” I have not been able to get the app to actually launch on my watch. There is plenty of available storage, so that is not the issue. I have totally abandoned trying to get it to work. The app is useless until the developers fix these issues.

Good app, getting better. The app continues to improve and I use the stats function often. I would like to see the following changes, upgrades. 1) change the colors for the stats. It doesn’t have to be a some kind of shade of green. Try a different color. 2) that doesn’t seem to be a way to select a penalty stroke. 3. When reviewing stats after a round, the data in the screen needs to be recalibrated so that you can clearly see the stats for fairway accuracy.

Quirky. I like the app as it is very functional and provides the info necessary. I use in conjunction with my Apple Watch, don’t like carrying my phone all over the course bound to lose it. Like that you can score and then end of round post immediately. One quirky thing is in the Apple Watch function. During many many rounds, in the middle of the round the Apple Watch portion becomes disconnected from the phone some how and stars giving wacky yardages. Have to grab phone to get correct yardages. Once this happens you cannot get the watch to read the same as the phone. Very problematic.

Phone app fine, but watch crashes. I've used this app for about a year now. On my iPhone XS Max the app works fine, but the app on the watch (v 5) tends to start and immediately crash rendering it useless. I don't understand why the app needs to load my home course every time I play. Can't it just be updated periodically? And I also wish that I could set up a default for my tee setting and number of holes for my home course. Overall, the intereface is a little clunky. I'd like to be able to just have a "play" button for default settings and get rolling.

Apple Watch bug issues. I enjoy the concept of the app and not having to manually enter hole by hole scores after each round or carry a rangefinder. However there are bugs which hinder the functionality of the app. 1. After each hole or shot in need to reopen the app on the watch to enter scores or get a distance. Last year I used GolfLogix and this was not an issue. GolfLogix stayed open and active on my watch the entire round. 2. Yardage distance does not always update on the watch this issue appeared occur off and on. Often after reopening the app on my watch (see #1) the distance on my watch would read as if I’m standing on tee, but I’m only 100 yards away from green. I would go to the phone app which would confirm I’m 100 yards from the green. The value of the watch app is not having to mess with my phone during the round. 3. Not all scores entered on the watch transfer to to the phone app scorecard. After the round I review the scorecard before posting my score. 3-4 holes did not have recorded scores entered though the watch. I needed to manually enter the score for those holes on the phone scorecard in the app before posting the scorecard. The app has great potential but these issues need corrected for the app to remain viable.

Loved the app when it worked correctly. I used to be able to post my scores hole by hole, which was awesome. Since 3 days ago the app closes when I try to use that feature. I’ll choose post hole by hole, select the tees and date, then hit post and the app closes/ shuts down. I am able to post total score from and back but that doesn’t keep hole by hole stats, which i like. I sent an email via the help button on the app but got no feedback. Problem continues to this day.

Phone App Great - Watch, not so much. The app for the phone is amazing. I love that it keeps handicap, has enhanced GPS, has heat and putt maps, stat tracking, handicap calculator, etc…. One major flaw is that with the Apple Watch, the GPS still uses yardage from your phone. So, sorry for you if it’s cart path only. Sorry if your partner drops you and takes the cart. The watch app is also constantly closing on your wrist, so, reopening and having to allow it to calibrate again is annoying. GHIN needs to take a note from Hole19 and GolfShot and allow the watch app to utilize the watch GPS on GPS mode only, this way, your watch shows accurate yardage. I find that the biggest difference is the other apps allow Apple Watch with GPS to use the watches GPS and stay open for the full round (phone or not) by utilizing the health app. I use the phone for approaches and around the greens (mainly when we are driving to an approach shot and/or parking to walk to putt and wanting to see the green slopes), then I leave my phone in the cart and I use GolfShot for my watch GPS.

Do not buy if you use a watch!. I purchased this because I thought it would simplify posting my scores after a round. However, I like to only use my Apple Watch when playing. This app is a disaster for a watch user. First, the watch features are nowhere near where other apps are. You cannot input your score on the watch nor can you track shot distances. Second, the watch app is glitchy. It wanted to continue to play different holes and I had to continually manually tell it what hole we were on. Very frustrating. Third, the app crashed multiple times. This required me to go back to the phone and restart. It kept the score correctly when I restarted, but it was frustrating to continually have to pull out my phone to restart the app. In summary, when I’m golfing, I don’t want to be interacting with my phone. It’s distracting and unpleasant. The watch is a great solution that GHIN has barely attempted to make viable. I asked for a refund the day after I purchase and after deciding 9 holes in to return to Hole 19 for the remainder of the round but I’ve been denied. So do yourself a favor and don’t flush $50 down the toilette with this junk app if you want to use a watch while you golf.

Paid Membership Fee. Frequently locks up on my Apple Watch, further doesn’t show current score on your watch. On the phone app, very difficult to view your scorecard without losing the round. No share function with friends. This app needs a lot of work and was released premature. Cannot put in tournament scores. Forces you to post scores when tournament organizers for mens leagues enter your scores which causes duplication. Difficult to review past rounds. I would use golf logix or the V1 app as I find myself fighting this app instead of focusing on my game. Good luck all. I had positive expectations but left disappointed.

Frustrating. Distances and hole layouts seem good. GPS wouldn’t work one time and had to use another app. Watch pairing stinks, constantly have to relaunch on watch even after I made the setting changes noted in the FAQs. Also, the phone app has crashed each round I have used it (5 times), relaunch brought back to round in progress. This is with an iPhone 13 and Watch 7. I’ve asked for my money back but doubt that will happen. Will delete from my watch and just use on phone. Probably rely more on the Grint since I never had a problem w that on watch.

Enhanced, NOT. The basic version is fine for keeping your handicap, looking up other players, and keeping a basic score. Do not get the enhanced version! So not worth the money. Full of bugs. Does not use GPS satellites, but instead mobile towers so yardage is often wrong. App continuously shuts off so you have to restart and all the effort that goes into keeping track of clubs and shots is wasted. Hate to say, but futzing around with the app actually makes the round slower and less helpful. There are many more apps that are free, or about the same amount of money that are much much better.

Need a comparison chart for stats. With all the stats, I enter, it would be nice to have the ghin app compare my average stats to other golfers of my same handicap for example, greens in regulation percentage, fairways hit percentage, putts per round number…Etc. that would give me a target to see what I need to work on a little bit better. That would be easy to do I would think with all the data that the gin app is collecting from all golfers.

Dreadful App. Being forced to move from NCGA app to GHIN. This app is really badly written. Logging in a totally random. Have to create a profile. Reset password. Then login fails again and again. No way to copy and paste your password from a password manager. No faceID login. Screens don’t align properly on the iPhone so you can see the right info. If, and that might you take some time, you get into the app, it has all your regional data but the presentation is weak. I couldn’t be less excited about this App. Will go back to logging my results on the local course computer, assuming they will still exist. Amateur hour. Why not copy the NCGA app and rebrand it. It works fine.

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GHIN mobile. App on my phone just stopped opening. There are many reviews stating same issues. Please fix.

Program Does not remember me. On my IPAD I have re-enter my GHIN number each time ! Very frustrating.

Finding other players.. I have difficulty finding fellow golfers on the app..

Great but..... I can get my course handicap on my iPad with this app, but when I use the app on my phone, I can’t select the tees. This is annoying when you are out on the course, and you can’t figure out what your max is on a hole, now that we have the new rules. This app would be really useful if you could fix this.

Fix this!. Useless App! You can’t choose Tees! Doesn’t t work on iPad or iPhone 8.

Garbage!. Doesn't work. Can't login. Useless.

Glitchy with iOS 16. Crashes continually on the latest iOS version

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12 guys. We play golf every Thursday shame 12 guys every now and then there’s a different one in there but we play by handicap and it’s good to have it on your phone so when you sign up you can show them right away

Paid version re-downloads the course over and over.. I paid for the GPS version of this app because of the images they show you of the putting greens. It looked super useful! When I first loaded it up, it detected my watch and downloaded the course. Great! First play through, it seemed "good enough". Not as good as GolfShot, Arccos, or any of the others, but "good enough" to use as one app. Then, the next time I used the app it downloaded the course. Again. Found my watch and connected. Again. No option to not use the watch if you wanted to conserve battery. Everything was forced to reconnect and redownload. Every. Single. Time. FWIW the scoring also doesn't contain penalty strokes or bunker shots if you want to track those. I will not be renewing my subscription.

App fails to open often. This app is necessary for convenient score posting, yet it fails to open often. I just updated the app, I had to reenter the group I play with , agg he’s in, again etc… for handicap tracking between players and it won’t open after the next round we played. This has happened many tones over the past year or so that this app took over score posting for NCGA

Finally!!!!. Used the new version today with Apple Watch and it didn’t crash once. Do we dare to hope it finally works?! If so, its exactly what I want. Front, middle, back and not a bunch of stats.

Golfer Must Have. If you are a frequent player, and/or enjoy competing for money this is a must have app. Eliminates sandbaggers and evens the playing field. Creates fairness for a 16 handicapper vs a 4 to be competitive. Had one of those days couple months back, shot a 78, with a GHIN of 19. USGA “penalized” me 2 strokes to a 17 for having a superb score. While I captured all the $$$, my playing partners were insistent I post a 78. Fun to look back on previous scores, noting coulda/shoulda’s that took you out of the $$$ by (1) stroke. Simple to get your HDCP for that particular course when you have their rating. If you are new to golf, a great way to build your hdcp. RTinAZ

Almost there. I have really liked the GPS features as well as the ability to track stats. But PLEASE add a stat to track penalty strokes!!!! Sand saves would also be useful info but second to penalty strokes. Not that I have many (😂🙏🏼) but the few I get would be nice to track.

PIA. Used the app for the first time today. I may have wasted $39. I was happy with my previous app, however USGA would only allow the app to record it as an Away round. I thought my problems were solved with this app. The app doesn’t stay open on my watch. Every time I want a yardage, I have to search for open apps. What a pain!

Needs updates. While the app has lots of potential, I have not seen any updates to the app since I got it. Few thoughts: It goes to the green view way too early. Really shouldn’t go to that view until you are on the green. I always have to change it. Same with par 3s. You should be able to customize your clubs and your distances. When you are on the tee box, it should show you the club that matches the distance (ie on a par 3) and default to a driver for a par 4 or 5. That would show you the potential landing area. If you want to change clubs (ie due to elevation or wind), you could just click on a different club. Any time you look at the distance, it asks you what club you are hitting, which makes it easier to remember to enter the club you are using.

Mulligan needed. I was excited to leverage the breadth of information the USGA has at its disposal to bring a world class experience to the mobile ecosystem containing the iPhone and iwatch. The potential was only matched by my disappointment with the experience. Just about every iwatch owner / golfer I meet is looking for an “Apple like” experience (I.e. it just works) on the golf course when it comes to a golf app. Additionally, most want a standalone application that can leverage the GPS capabilities of the watch without their phone nearby. Unfortunately - the app crashing, the lack of dependability and the inaccurate readings make this application more of nuisance than an asset. The only positive I can derive is that my frustration on the course is channeled toward the application vs my own disappointing play. Be better, please! For the love of the game.

Don’t buy GHIN Enhanced gps-crashes on Apple Watch. I purchased the GHIN Enhanced GPS app and my Apple Watch crashed with each use. I really wanted this subscription to work so I tried several attempts. After rebooting app several times with no success, I requested refund from GHIN. Note to self: You must request refund from Apple. I should have requested a refund immediately rather than try to get the app to work. Apple refunded me only a partial payment due to time difference from initial purchase — don’t wait! Request refund immediately with Apple, the GHIN enhanced app doesn’t work with Apple Watch.

Activity Tracker. This app is is really good for tracking shots and scores! The GPS is phenomenal, but there is one reason I have not rated this app 5 stars and that is it does not sync with Activity on the Apple Watch like other GPS apps do. I would really like to see that feature incorporated into the app to enhance the user experience. This feature would quickly make the GHIN app my exclusive shot tracking and GPS app!

Great Software!. Love this app so very much. I am no pro but the live distances are perfect for my game! One feature request that I would love to see is a live compass heading toward the given pin from the device. Some tee boxes / shots are blind and it would be nice to able to have confidence in direction of a blind shot.

Unhappy and frustrated.. Very unreliable GPS! I have an iPhone 14 pro and the latest Apple Watch both are running with the current up -dates. The GHIN GPS on the watch is all over the place. The distance readings on the watch frequently do not match those on the phone. The watch GPS also needs constant adjustments. It will skip to other holes while I’m standing still. I wish I could get my money back for the “enhanced version.” $40 wasted!

App very poor quality.. I run a couple golf groups so I have many players I keep track of their handicap. For no reason at all they just disappear and I have to delete app and reinstall. Quite a nuisance and there is no customer service to call. Quality of app is poor. Also and different times will not let me select tees without deleting app and reinstalling.

Can we get landscape version. Generally a good app. Two deficiencies I would love to see fixed. First, would love to see the mobile version to support landscape mode. Second, the handicap calculator does not save the selected tees for added golfers. Also, would love to have the handicap calculator be the same for the iPhone and the iPad. Right now you need to put the people on each device separately.

The equalizer. Using your app has prevented long arguments on the first tee regarding the amount of stokes someone thinks they deserve or are owed. We can all agree that GHIN has leveled our playing field and no matter how many strokes you think you are owed, GHIN NEVER lies. Thanks for keeping the thieves honest. Haha

Awful performance. Downloaded and paid for the upgraded version yesterday. Used it right away for 18 holes. It was a terrible experience. This app crashes constantly or times out. Coordination with the Apple Watch is almost nonexistent. It’s back-and-forth telling you it’s using your watch but it’s not using your watch and only use GPS from the phone not the watch. There are many free apps out there that are much better if you want distance, scoring, etc. I am hopeful I can get my money back soon

Please add yardages when selecting tees. I like to download the course and look it over before I’m at the course. It would be nice if when selecting the tees to play that it would list the yardage of the tees. But it only shows the rating. I have to wait to get a scorecard to select the tees.

This is why people hate golf. As though the game isn’t hard enough or expensive enough - USGA still finds a way to soak you for more. An annual membership is needed to compute the handicap they claim is what is needed to make the game fair for all. How about giving this away? I have a feeling sponsors could more than make up the difference. I’m going to stick with lying about my handicap…that is free.

Gps. I paid extra to get gps to work with my Apple Watch. It was not as good because of some loss of connection but over time it has been much better. I previously had used Golfshot and I like the connection to my handicap program. I now use my gps more than my rangefinder. There has been significant improvement over the past 5 months.

Great app, just one suggestion. Everything is great about this app except for one thing. The app is compatible with my Apple Watch, but it would be nice to be able to get yardage on my watch as well as my phone because it slows me down to have to look at my phone to get yardages.

Apple Watch loses connection. Scoring and maps are great but I’d like to keep my iPhone in my pocket and use my Apple Watch only for yardages. The only setting I can see to help is to allow background refresh but it doesn’t help. Apple Watch keeps going back to the message saying “Searching… start a round on the iPhone.”. I bought a yearly subscription so hopefully they sort it out. Internet searches show others have this problem while others do not. iPhone Pro Max and Apple Watch Ultra here.

Syncing Lag. Having paid for the Enhanced GPS Upgrade, I'm very disappointed with the significantly delayed lag between the iPhone GHIN App data and that on the Apple Watch (both in timing and accuracy). I have followed the GHIN App info in the FAQ's, as well as unpairing and re-syncing the iPhone and Apple Watch, and finally, deleted and re-downloaded the App - ALL without resolution. This needs to be corrected as it could be so much better.

Mobile app is A+, but Watch app is buggy. I use this app over any other. They keep making improvements to the functionality and it’s free. I recently upgraded to the enhanced version with Apple Watch support. There are plenty of reviews on Reddit and Golf blogs to understand what the connectivity and GPS issues are with the Apple Watch do not upgrade for the Apple Watch features.

Apple Watch issue. Overall works but hole is too easily changed because the digital scroll rotates a bit when you swing the club or make impact. So, be careful before entering information on the hole. Make sure you are on correct hole. It wound be great if they changed hole advance to a different button.

Review. Still learning the ins and outs of the Ap. I need a handicap to make competing with my friends fine and equal, moving from the NCGA was necessary and I needed the service. It’s nice to know that there will be an improvement in being fair with scoring in this most difficult sport!

Soft cap cheater. Golf isnt luck its ability the system is fine. Unfortunately people like you who choose to use your handicap to beat people are The problem. Try to get better and play without a handicap and man up.

Last update not working. I have used this app for years and love it. Ever since the recent update, it takes 24 seconds for the app to load the home page using wi-fi. It used to take a few seconds. Please fix it.

Simple to use. Very simple … everything is set up step by step and when you finish you have stats to understand the score … give you stats to backup what you need to work on to improve

Version 5.1.1 has problems. I recently “upgraded” to version 5.1.1 of the GHIN app and I am very disappointed. Before the update everything was working fine. Now after the upgrade, the app crashes frequently on my iPhone, and the companion app on my Apple Watch stopped working entirely! I have an Apple iPhone 12 mini running iOS 16.3, and an Apple Watch model MNNL2LL/A running watchOS 6.3. Please fix this!!!

Good app but last update disables auto lock. After the last update, the app prevents the phone from auto locking. I understand why it would do this while using GPS but not while I just entered a score. I have to manually put the phone to sleep after entering my score otherwise the battery drains.

Transactional emails broken!!!. This app is completely unusable because your transactional email mechanism is broken. No matter what I try, I cannot get the authentication emails to get in and post my scores. You have my email correct because I have received all promotional and welcome emails just fine. The app’s suggestion for support to “check with your club” is kind of silly for things like this because they have no ability to fix mail delivery issues when the email appears correct. Therefore, this is my only means for reaching out for support.

Decent but needs work. On SEVERAL occasions while mid-round app will crash and not allow me to resume round score keeping or even start over. If I want to keep score I have to do on paper then transfer to app afterwards. GPS functionality is accurate and handicap keeping is good but can’t trust it during round to keep score. Not an uncommon problem either, several friends have same issue. I’ve updated to latest version, restarted phone and app, etc…. For the $ this should work.

Text size is too small. The GHIN app could benefit from auto selecting a club based upon your distance to the green or hazards. The text is also too small for golfers that need readers. Maybe change the size of the icons for club selection? Also I am having issues with the club selection tool not keeping the shot sequence in order. Could be user error.

Constantly crashes, no tech support. The constantly closes down during a round while keeping score and stats. The problem is not with my iPhone. There is no tech support contact, you have to message your state USGA org and they have no way to help. When it worked it was a nice simple app. It has been broken for a month or two. I play a lot of rounds and dealing with this is a major pain. Not recommended.

The $40/year add on. What a pain. Okay so my wife was deciding between a range finder, a watch or the enhanced GHIN app with the Apple Phone. Since she uses the GHIN basic app and has an Apple phone it seemed like a good get to get the $40 enhanced app. Well…that was a mistake. The watch GHIN app closes and has to constantly be reopened every hole. And to make matters worse. You need to walk with both the phone and watch together to get accurate distances. If your playing partner drive away to his ball with your phone in the cart…the watch on your wrist is worthless. We see no benefits with the $40 app.

Score card view. Would love to see the entire scorecard on the view scorecard after posting scores. Mainly so I could screen shot to share with others. Right now you need to scroll to the side to view all 18 holes. Edit- found share scorecard option. Looks great.

Keeps crashing. This app would be excellent if it didn’t crash (on the Apple Watch) four times in an 18 hole round. There should also be better ways to track distances of shots on watch instead of having to go back to your phone. Makes the enhanced paid version def not worth the $40

GPS watch. The main App for keeping your handicap works fine. The GPS app for Apple Watch is atrocious, the crown spins the hole you are on and the distances lock up on a hole as if it’s working on a different hole. Some times it just locks up. The phone front middle and back distance numbers need to stand out. They get lost in the color used on a hole and can’t be read. They need to address these glitches before it will be a usable App

Good App, critical flaw. Absolutely ridiculous that during the off season this app won’t even let you use it to keep score and round statistics. Please change so we can at least use during off season. App is useless 4 months a year. I use Grint now instead, they let you keep score and more detailed stats year round, and just don’t use off-season rounds when computing handicap.

I'd love it if it worked consistently. This is my preferred golf app, but it’s so flaky! It resets during a round. The app often fails to see GPS, even though other golf apps have no problem with it. I like the green reading options and easy access to distances. Posting scores is a snap. But more often than not I have another app running just to be sure…

Good app but watch version needs improvement. Used the app for two years to maintain my GHIN handicap. Recently upgraded to premium version when it could be used with apple watch. The app functions ok on the phone but the distance on the watch is always delayed. Will have to test it for the year and see if it’s worth it.

Only legitimate way to keep your handicap. You can follow your friends and keep track of their scores and current index, but I wish you could like and comment on peoples posted scores! Being able to interact with your friends you follow would be a great addition to the app

This app refuses to work. Takes try after try after try to get this app to open. Sometimes I give up and go back a day or two later only to get a snarky “enter scores on date played”. Which I would 100% if this flipping thing worked even half the time. A clear regression from previous years, this iteration is complete crap. Only works at my house, even then it’s fifty/fifty. Go back to last years version!!!!

What's going on? Buggy like never before. Keeping stats with this app used to be accurate. Now on a Par 5 if I tell it I shot a 6 with 2 putts, it marks it as a GIR--NOT! Also, it has begun to adjust scores incorrectly. It makes no adjustments to my individual hole score, but shows my adjusted score as 1 less than my entered score, which is just wrong. Please fix this buggy version!!

Hole by hole scoring stats limitations. The hole by hole scoring feature is nice but they need to add additional stat lines to include things like penalties / drop shots and also bunkers, etc. This would improve score analysis because we could then tell if a blow up hole was more induced by penalty shots or pure hacking. Tracking of bunkers would also open the door to tracking sand saves.

Always On Option. It would be nice if there was an option to keep the app always on while using the app without needing the phone passcode. I have other apps that have this feature and it is quite useful. My use of the GPS feature is diminished because of the need to constantly enter the phone passcode.

Monopolize. There are a lot of Apps that keeps handicap which is not hard to calculate however GHIN makes it official for some tournament and taking away the free benefit from country club. Paying an extra $65 a year to use an App which is the same as others for free is not if my interest. I understand that all business need to generate revenue however I believe it is better to generate that through innovation not domination. Thank you very much for your concern.🤗🙏

I like it and hate it.. First off I’ve only ever used to other one other app similar to this so my experience isn’t great. Needless no to say the app isn’t in my opinion super great. It constantly closes itself. Kicks me out of my account, at times doesn’t save my score. On the other hand, I do enjoy reviewing my stats of each round and another features presented in the app.

Watch bug. Repeated bug: I start around on my phone, then I try to start around on my watch. The watch keeps asking me to start around on my phone. I close the Watch app, then repeat, and the same thing happens. This is happened over several rounds, and sometimes it fixes itself but so far on hole through that’s not happening.