A Fore Play Podcast Joint
Golf Sidekick
Every bet, every round, settled automatically — then recapped by a podcast host with a grudge. The one guy with the spreadsheet at dinner is officially retired.
3
bets per round
7
rounds, one trip
1
podcast a night
0
spreadsheets
The spreadsheet is dead.
Golf groups run three to eight simultaneous bets a round across multiple formats, with custom rules and mixed handicaps. Today that's paper cards and a frantic Excel session after dinner. Golf Sidekick runs the whole thing — handicaps, scores, skins, quota, and a full Ryder Cup — and settles every dollar before the second pint.
AI vision
It reads your scorecards
Snap a photo of the card. Claude pulls every number, cross-checks the hole-by-hole against the written totals, and flags anything it isn't sure about — then waits for a human to confirm before a penny moves.
GHIN sync
Live handicaps and real course data
Pull current handicap indexes for the whole roster, plus full course data — rating, slope, par, yardage, and the stroke index for every tee box — straight from GHIN. No manual entry, no stale numbers.
The main event
A trip-long Quota game
A running points chase where everyone competes regardless of handicap. Quotas adjust round to round based on how you played, the math is shown hole-by-hole, and the standings never sleep.
Team match play
A proper Ryder Cup
Name your teams, draft by handicap, and let the app run Best Ball, Combined Ball, and Singles with real match-play scoring — closeouts, halves, the lot. The balanced pairing engine spreads partners and opponents evenly across all seven rounds.
The encore
Your own podcast, every night
When the round locks, Nigel — our dry, deadpan British host — writes and voices a full recap of the day's carnage. Real results, real names, real jabs, generated from the actual scores and the stories you feed him.
Mixed tee boxes
Half the group off the blues, half off the whites — course-handicap and the course-rating adjustment are handled per player, per tee.
Custom local rules
Playing-handicap allowances, handicap caps, no-double-strokes on par 3s — every group's house rules, configurable.
Human-in-the-loop
AI reads and calculates; a person confirms every scorecard before a single dollar is settled. Accuracy is non-negotiable.
Mobile-first
Big tap targets, readable in direct sun, one shared link for the whole crew. Built for a phone in a back pocket.
Multi-round & multi-day
Bets compile across the whole trip with running totals — trip-long quota, cumulative Ryder points, total skins.
End-of-trip settlement
Every format, every round, netted into one ledger: who owes who, in dollars, points, or pints.
How it works
01
Set up the trip
Add players, courses, the bets you play, and your two Ryder teams.
02
Sync from GHIN
Pull live handicaps and full course data — or snap a photo of the scorecard.
03
Enter the scores
Type them in or upload the card; a human confirms before anything settles.
04
Sit back
Bets settle, the leaderboard updates, and the podcast drops that evening.
Under the hood
Serious tech, accuracy first
Claude reads the scorecards and writes the recaps. ElevenLabs gives Nigel his voice. GHIN supplies the handicaps and course data. Everything runs on Cloudflare's edge. And every calculation is built to be right — or to flag its own uncertainty and ask a human.
Want this for your trip?
Golf Sidekick is available for licensing and custom builds — your courses, your bets, your crew, your podcast host. Let's talk.
rob@coach.win