Every feature you need. None you don't.
GPS. AI Caddy. All formats. Tournament management. Stats.
On Course
GPS & Hole Intelligence
BGSA Caddy uses your phone's GPS to pinpoint your position and calculate the exact distance to the pin on every hole — automatically, as you move.
- ✓Real-time distance to pin, front, and back of green
- ✓Elevation-adjusted yardages (0.3m per metre of height change)
- ✓Wind-aware distance corrections (headwind / tailwind / crosswind)
- ✓Auto-detects which hole you're on — no manual selection
- ✓Map view: green outline, pin position, player position, hazard overlays
- ✓Works fully offline with cached course data
- ✓Worldwide course database — South Africa and everywhere you travel
AI Caddy
Club Recommendations & Strategy
Caddy is your on-course thinking partner. It combines your distance, wind, elevation, and your specific bag to give you the optimal club and the right strategy every time. Included in Pro Caddy — individual or society.
- ✓Club recommendation based on distance, wind, elevation, and ball lie
- ✓Attack vs. layup vs. play-safe strategy based on hazards in carry zone
- ✓Warnings for hazards, extreme wind, distance gaps in your bag
- ✓Four AI modes: on-course, bag analysis, general coaching, practice/swing
- ✓Voice interface — hold the mic, ask your question, get a spoken answer
- ✓Powered by Claude AI + ElevenLabs natural voice synthesis
- ✓Remembers your bag — set it once, Caddy uses it every round
- ✓Caddy Profile — optionally declare your shot shape, miss tendency, and weaknesses so Caddy personalises advice from your very first round
Scoring
Every Format. WHS-Compliant.
Whether you're playing a casual 9 or a serious club championship, BGSA Caddy handles the maths across all 35 competition formats.
- ✓35 scoring formats in-app — individual, team, alliance, and combined variants
- ✓Individual: Stableford, Medal, Stroke (gross/net/inverted), Bogey/Par, Skins, Matchplay (+ scratch, off-the-card, points)
- ✓Team: Betterball (Stableford & Medal), Greensome, Chapman, Scramble (drive & full), Worst Ball, Combined SF Multiply
- ✓Alliance family: Best 1/2/3, 3-ball & 4-ball, par-split rules, multiplier — 10 variants
- ✓Combined Stableford — Individual + 4-Ball + Round Robin in one round
- ✓Configurable handicap allowance per round (with competition preset + lock)
- ✓Format-aware live leaderboards and shared scorecards on web
- ✓Competition scores reach the leaderboard hole by hole as they are entered — with no signal they are kept on the phone and sent later
- ✓WHS-compliant pickup button (net double bogey, automatically scored)
- ✓Shot tracking: direction miss grid, putts per hole
Individual
- • Stableford
- • Medal (Stroke Play)
- • Strokeplay (Gross, Net & Inverted)
- • Bogey / Par
- • Skins
- • Match Play (+ Scratch, Off the Card, Points)
Team — Betterball & Scramble
- • Betterball (Stableford)
- • Betterball Medal (Net & Gross)
- • Betterball 9/18, 2-Count Par 3, Bogey
- • Greensome & Chapman
- • Scramble (Drive & Full)
- • Combined SF (Multiply) & Worst Ball
Team — Alliance
- • Alliance (Best 2 of 4)
- • Best 1 / Best 2 Net / Best 3 variants
- • 3-Ball & 4-Ball Alliance
- • Par-split rules (3&4/5, 4&5/3, 4BA 1/2/3)
- • Alliance Multiplier
Combined & Side Games
- • Combined Stableford (Individual + 4-Ball + Round Robin)
- • Round Robin mini-matchplay
Handicaps
WHS Handicaps, Marker Sign-Off & Shared Scorecards
Scores you can actually submit. BGSA Caddy resolves handicaps per tee under WHS, and every card can be attested by a marker and shared as a live link.
- ✓WHS course handicap and playing handicap, calculated per tee
- ✓Correct stroke allocation by stroke index — each player on their own tee
- ✓Handicap allowance defaults per format (HNA), overridable per round
- ✓Add missing Course Rating / Slope in-app; community tee submissions
- ✓Marker sign-off: send your card for attestation before submitting for handicap
- ✓Under the Rules of Golf a marker signs one player's card — and never their own
- ✓Submit to GolfRSA / HNA at handicaps.co.za with your marker recorded
- ✓Share a live scorecard link — gross, nett and points, viewable without the app
- ✓Export as PDF or CSV, or send straight to WhatsApp or email
Tournaments
Society & Club Management
A dedicated web console for admins — built for desktops, not phones. Everything a society secretary or competition director needs.
- ✓Live score capture grid — see all players' live scores in one view
- ✓Member roster with automatic handicap lookup
- ✓Bulk player import (paste a list, players added instantly)
- ✓Tours — run a week away or a whole season: one player list, a different course and format each day
- ✓Order of merit with nothing to set up: Points, Net and Gross over all the days, a table of their own for Stableford, Strokeplay, Betterball and Skins days, and the day's winner shown when the last card is in
- ✓Single-round and multi-round Golf Tour formats
- ✓30+ leaderboard filters (tee, flight, format, handicap variant)
- ✓Eclectic leaderboards (best score per hole across the season)
- ✓Push notifications to all participants
Stats
Post-Round Reports & Career Stats
Track your improvement over time with 7 chart types. Included in Pro Caddy — individual or society.
- ✓Handicap differential trend chart
- ✓Scores by par (birdie / par / bogey / double+ distribution)
- ✓Greens in Regulation (GIR%) over time
- ✓Fairway hit % trend
- ✓Putting statistics (putts per round)
- ✓Miss direction grid (left / centre / right tendency per club)
- ✓Full handicap history with score differentials
GPS & scoring free forever.
Download BGSA Caddy and play your first round today.