iPhone App Review: GolfMoolah is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Acey Deucey. Bingo, Bango, Bongo. The Snake. If any of these phrases mean something to you (with the caveat that it has something to do with golf), then you may be in need of GolfMoolah.
GolfMoolah takes golf scoring apps deeper into your pocketbook by tracking not just the strokes, but also the results of any number of different side games you may have going on the round. Suffice it to say that none of this makes any sense then this may not be the app for you.
Features
- 18,000 United States golf course database
- Several of the most popular golf wagering games
- Detailed rules for each game
- Add courses or edit included courses
- No annual fee or subscription
- Automated scorecard tracks all wagers and results for multiple games
- Email scorecards from within the app
- Settle wagers via Paypal
- Calculates handicap for each golfer based on USGA rating & slope
Pros
The app is designed well, leading you from the first screen step by step through the necessary details to create a round of golf. You can start off by simply creating a new round, then select a course, then add players. You are finally presented with the standard golf scorecard, at which point you can select the side games you would like to play.
Keeping score is accomplished by simply tapping on the hole and entering the score for each player, just as easy as you would expect. The app tracks the information given and applies it to each game as appropriate, taking the bookkeeping out of your hands so you can focus on the game.
One nice feature I noticed is that you can even have different player and team configurations within the same round of golf. For instance, in Bingo Bango Bongo you are all playing solo, but in Las Vegas you play on teams of two. You can then even have a game of Skins in which only two of the foursome participate. I can only imagine what a nightmare that would be to keep track of with pencil and paper or a standard scoring app, but GolfMoolah handles it with ease.
The scorecard also has a nice option to view the holes by score or by money, letting you see at a glance who is ahead in the score that really counts.
Cons
- The app apparently has a bug in Nassau (the game, not the island), which the developers have committed to fixing in the next update.
- The buttons are on the “small” to “very small” side for those of us with large fingers, though it’s not a deal breaker.
- The app is expensive, at $29.99. This may or may not be expensive to you, given how much or how little you value your time or your sanity in tracking the details of golf scoring and wagering.
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