For weekly golf leagues

Post your score. Everything else keeps up.

Pick your format, add your players, and let Fescue handle the rest.

Set up my league How it works

Not sure which format? Take the 1-minute quiz

How it works.

  1. Set up the league

    Pick your format, add your players and send everyone the link.

  2. Post scores as you play

    Post scores hole by hole and watch the field move. Skins and pins are tallied before you reach the clubhouse.

  3. Close the week

    Close the week in one pass. Standings, targets and payouts settle together.

The Play screen during a round: Dale's group five holes in at Ironwood, each hole scored with its stableford points, and a skin Marty is winning outright on the 3rd.
Scorecard
The live leaderboard on league night: the first two groups finished with medals for the top three, points against target, and the later groups still out on the course.
Live leaderboard
Side Bets: an open bet anyone can take, and Rick reporting that Dale won their bet for two beers, waiting on Dale to confirm.
Side bets
A two-man best ball match card: net and gross for all four players, a dot for each handicap stroke, and the match hole by hole, 4-3 with two to play.
Best ball match
Stroke play match cards on the leaderboard: Dale beats Rick on net and takes 5 points, 3 for the match and 2 for finishing in the top third of the field.
Stroke play
The league group chat before the 5:30 tee time: players needling each other about who is running late, and Dale pulling in at 5:11.
League chat

Five ways to play.

Pick one when you set up the league. You can change your mind right up until the season starts, and after that it is the same game for everyone, every week.

Not sure which one? Take the 1-minute quiz

Progressive Stableford

The reward climbs the lower you go, and a blow-up hole never costs you points.

Points per hole

  • Eagle8 pts
  • Birdie5 pts
  • Par3 pts
  • Bogey2 pts
  • Double1 pt
  • Triple+0 pts
Best for:
A field with a wide range of games
Play it:
Targets or handicap strokes

Standard Stableford

The USGA table, straight out of the rule book. Why reinvent the wheel?

Points per hole

  • Eagle4 pts
  • Birdie3 pts
  • Par2 pts
  • Bogey1 pt
  • Double+0 pts
Best for:
Leagues that want the traditional game, by the book
Play it:
Targets or handicap strokes

PGA Modified Stableford

The tour’s table. Par is worth nothing and a double costs you three. Points pile up all season, and every week is a new chance to go low.

Points per hole

  • Eagle5 pts
  • Birdie2 pts
  • Par0 pts
  • Bogey−1 pt
  • Double+−3 pts
Best for:
A season-long points race, with no targets to manage
Play it:
Scratch, handicap strokes, or two-man teams

Two-Man Best Ball

Match play with a partner. Each week you and your partner take on another pair, best ball net, hole by hole.

Points each week

  • Hole won1 pt
  • Halved½ pt
  • Match won+1 pt
Best for:
A league that wants a weekly opponent instead of a whole field
Play it:
Two-man teams, handicap strokes

Stroke Play

Head to head, net. You play one opponent each week, and finishing in the top third of the field earns extra points.

Points each week

  • Match won3 pts
  • Halved1½ pts
  • Top third of the field+2 pts
  • Middle third+1 pt
Best for:
Players who want a head-to-head match every week
Play it:
Individual, handicap strokes (95% HDCP)

Playing something else? Tell us your league’s format.

If you run the league

Set it up once. Close it every week.

  • Search for your course and pull in its tees, rating and slope
  • Build the roster and pairings before anyone has signed up
  • Invite a golfer by email and hold their slot until they answer
  • Close the week in one pass. Standings, targets and payouts settle together
  • Fix a card after the week has closed. Reopen it and everything after recomputes
  • Name a sub without their round landing on a member's record
  • One ledger for the season, so week four still adds up in August
  • Renew into next season with every past one kept, week by week
If you play in it

Keep your card. Watch the money.

  • Post scores hole by hole and watch the field move
  • See your target and what tonight did to it
  • Your scoring history, and everyone else’s: average points, best week
  • Skins and pins tallied before you reach the clubhouse
  • League chat, and the commissioner’s recap once the week closes
  • Notifications when someone birdies, tee times go up or the round is done

Built by league golfers, for league golfers.

Fescue started with our own Thursday night league: 24 players, one spreadsheet it had long outgrown, and a commissioner still doing the math after everyone else had gone home. So we built what that league needed. Scores the whole field can watch come in hole by hole. Standings that are settled the minute the week closes. Payouts nobody has to argue about.

No more guesswork: targets update automatically every week, and the payout scale is there for everyone to see. That leaves more time for your round, a little trash talk in the group chat, or a friendly wager 🍺 with your buddy. Everyone plays by the same rules, and the money comes out right every time.

Have a question about scoring formats? Check out our FAQ or send us a message at hello@fescue.golf.

Membership

The commissioner sets the league up in the app. Pick your format, add your players and send everyone the link. The first two weeks are on us.

  1. Your first two weeks Free Two nights played and two weeks closed. No card.
  2. Then, for the season One subscription per league, billed annually.

The whole app, from the first night

The trial holds nothing back, and paying unlocks nothing new. It is the same league either way.

  • Live hole-by-hole scoring the whole field can see
  • Your pick of scoring format, played individually or in two-man teams
  • Weekly standings, targets and season points
  • Skins, closest-to-the-pin and the weekly pot
  • Pairings, subs and absences
  • League chat, notifications and weekly recaps

New leagues: first two weeks free, then billed annually via Stripe.

Questions

If yours is not here, email us. We answer these ourselves.

Do we need handicaps to use this?

No, and nothing gets filed with a handicap authority.

One way is a target: your own scoring average in stableford points, set from what you post and corrected every week. No index, no slope, no course rating. A hot round raises your target, and a blow-up only drops it so far.

The other is handicap strokes. If you have an index, your commissioner enters it. If not, you play scratch until you have posted three rounds and the app works one out for you. That one needs your course's rating, slope and stroke index before the season starts.

What happens when someone can't make it?

Flag it in advance. Your commissioner can name a sub or leave the slot empty. Either way the absent player stays out of the pot, and a sub's round never lands on the member's record.

Do we have to play for money?

No. The standings work at any stake, including none. The commissioner sets the buy-in, and plenty of leagues play for the standings alone.

Is there an app, or is this a website?

A website today, built to install on your phone's home screen and run like an app. The App Store and Google Play are where it is headed. Leagues do not have to wait on store review to start playing.

How does a new player join?

Your commissioner texts them a link. They tap it, sign in and take the next open slot on the roster, which was already there waiting for them. Or the commissioner invites them by email, which holds a slot in their name until they accept.

What will it cost?

Your first two weeks are free, and after that a league pays once a year. That is two nights played and two weeks closed before anyone asks you for a card. The price is not set and billing is not switched on, so nothing is charging today. We will tell your league the price before it owes anything.