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What’s New Version 1.7
• Sign in with Apple — your logbook, saved courses, and alerts now back up to your account.
• More honest ratings — courses without enough data say “Not yet rated” instead of showing a guess.
• Cleaner course cards and rankings.
• Data fixes, including merged duplicate course listings.
• Performance and polish.
Description
PICKING A GOLF COURSE SHOULDN'T BE A LOTTERY.
Most apps show you a map with green pins. NearGolf shows you a score: "8.4 — strong match for your game." Whether a course fits how you play isn't a guess anymore.
THE MATCH SCORE.
Every course in our 21,000+ catalog gets a 0-10 score for your game: USGA slope and yardage against your profile, walkability, pace, price, drive time, real reviews. Tap any score and we show exactly how it was earned. No black box.
8.5-10 Great match — a course you'll want to come back to
7.0-8.4 Good fit — solid round, no surprises
5.5-6.9 Workable — you'll get through, mild fight
4.0-5.4 Stretch — bring your A game
Below 4 Not your game — save it for a sharper day
REAL DESCRIPTIONS, NOT BROCHURE COPY.
Each course's description is written from its own numbers and what golfers actually say in reviews — "Demanding 132 slope at 6,126 yards — one of the area's sterner tests" — not marketing fluff.
BOOKING LINKS THAT ACTUALLY WORK.
One tap opens the course's real tee sheet with your date and time pre-selected. We verify every bookable course's link every single night — date, sheet, and slot — so a dead link never wastes your drive.
ASK IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
"Any tee times at Sandy Burr today?" Type it or say it — NearGolf understands the course, the day, the time of day, and your party size, and answers with bookable times.
THE COURSE TOUR.
Satellite and drone imagery for every course — scout the layout hole by hole before you drive an hour.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- 21,000+ US golf courses: public, municipal, resort, and driving ranges
- Live tee-time availability for a growing set of connected courses
- One-tap booking on the course's own page — no booking fee, ever
- Quality scores built from real ratings and reviews, right on the map
- Course data refreshes nightly — new courses and fixes arrive on their own, no app update needed
NO ACCOUNT, NO EMAIL.
NearGolf does not require an account. Your profile and saved courses stay on your device.
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Version history 8 versions
Build 887870882v1.72026-07-06 21:49:33
• Sign in with Apple — your logbook, saved courses, and alerts now back up to your account.
• More honest ratings — courses without enough data say “Not yet rated” instead of showing a guess.
• Cleaner course cards and rankings.
• Data fixes, including merged duplicate course listings.
• Performance and polish.
Build 887555822v1.62026-06-30 22:05:33
Big ranking upgrade in 1.6:
• Smarter scores — every course is now graded against both expert critic rankings and real golfer reviews. Tap "How we scored this" on any course to see exactly how its grade was built.
• Best-in-state rankings for all 50 states, plus a cleaner national leaderboard.
• The map now surfaces the top courses first, even when you're zoomed way out.
• New on-course tour: pick your skill level right on the flyover and the shot distances retune to your game.
• Dozens of accuracy and polish fixes throughout.
Build 887210667v1.52026-06-21 17:11:51
What's New in 1.5
• Find a tee time in one tap — jump straight to the soonest open day and switch days instantly
• Cleaner tee-time cards with live weather right on each time
• A redesigned course page — your score, the key numbers, and booking all up top
• See recent tee times even when you're offline — the last-known times are saved on your phone
• Faster, less cluttered booking
• Lots of polish and fixes
Build 887091583v1.32026-06-17 17:51:36
What's new in 1.3:
- A fresh opening: NearGolf now greets you with a quick animation and drops you straight onto the map. No setup questions to get through.
- Smarter search: start typing any course name to find it instantly, or tap the mic to ask for tee times out loud.
- Cleaner booking: we cleared out thousands of dead booking links, so a course showing a Book button really is bookable.
- Calmer first launch: no permission pop-ups until you actually need them.
Build 886905215v1.22026-06-13 16:48:45
What golfers say on Reddit — course pages now show a community card with a summary and real quotes from golfers (94 courses and growing).
Find courses faster — start typing in the search box and matching courses appear instantly.
Booking fixes — date selection now works correctly on more tee sheets, cleaned up hundreds of booking links, and two Boston classics (Franklin Park and George Wright) now book in one tap.
Build 886858512v1.1.12026-06-12 21:51:37
- Search as you type: start typing any course name in the search box and matching courses appear instantly
- Booking pages handle sites' privacy popups for you — your tee time gets selected without the extra wall
- The helper bar on booking pages now gets out of your way: closes itself after a few seconds, or tap the X
- Removes a stray technical readout that didn't belong on screen
Build 886843570v1.12026-06-11 22:19:26
- Ask in plain English: type or speak "any tee times at Sandy Burr today" and get bookable times back
- Real course descriptions, written from each course's numbers and what reviewers actually say
- Smarter course scores: real ratings and community consensus now drive the quality number on the map
- Tap any time in search results to land on the course's tee sheet with your date pre-selected
- Refresh course data on demand in Settings — new courses and booking fixes without an app update
- Booking links verified nightly, plus fixes for stuck tee-time data and cleaner filters
Build 885968581v1.02026-06-09 12:44:36
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| Region | Language | Price | Ratings | Avg | Version |
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US | en-US | Free | 3 | 5.0 | 1.7 |
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• Sign in with Apple — your logbook, saved courses, and alerts now back up to your account.
• More honest ratings — courses without enough data say “Not yet rat
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description updated
PICKING A GOLF COURSE SHOULDN'T BE A LOTTERY.
Most apps show you a map with green pins. NearGolf shows you a score: "8.4 — strong match for your game." Whether
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Version 1.7 released
• Sign in with Apple — your logbook, saved courses, and alerts now back up to your account.
• More honest ratings — courses without enough data say “Not yet rated” instead of showing a guess.
• Cleaner course cards and rankings.
• Data fixe
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Version 1.6 released
Big ranking upgrade in 1.6:
• Smarter scores — every course is now graded against both expert critic rankings and real golfer reviews. Tap "How we scored this" on any course to see exactly how its grade was built.
• Best-in-state rankings
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Version 1.5 released
What's New in 1.5
• Find a tee time in one tap — jump straight to the soonest open day and switch days instantly
• Cleaner tee-time cards with live weather right on each time
• A redesigned course page — your score, the key numbers, and boo
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Version 1.3 released
What's new in 1.3:
- A fresh opening: NearGolf now greets you with a quick animation and drops you straight onto the map. No setup questions to get through.
- Smarter search: start typing any course name to find it instantly, or tap the mi
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Version 1.2 released
What golfers say on Reddit — course pages now show a community card with a summary and real quotes from golfers (94 courses and growing).
Find courses faster — start typing in the search box and matching courses appear instantly.
Booking
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Version 1.1.1 released
- Search as you type: start typing any course name in the search box and matching courses appear instantly
- Booking pages handle sites' privacy popups for you — your tee time gets selected without the extra wall
- The helper bar on booking
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Version 1.1 released
- Ask in plain English: type or speak "any tee times at Sandy Burr today" and get bookable times back
- Real course descriptions, written from each course's numbers and what reviewers actually say
- Smarter course scores: real ratings and c
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Version 1.0 released