Patch Updates
What's new in Scorven.
Every release, listed newest first — the features we've added and the things we've fixed.
Service update
Cancel an event without losing anything.
New
- Organizers can cancel an event from the console. Sign-up closes, the results page and sign-up link say the event was cancelled, and every registered player is told by email and in the app. Entries and payments stay exactly where they are, so refunds through Scorven are still yours to issue from the Entries and Sponsors tabs — and you can reinstate a cancelled event if plans change.
- Walk-ups and spreadsheet imports are accepted after the event date, right up until you close results. Public sign-up still closes at the end of the last day.
- Every registered entry on the roster has a "Resend receipt" action that sends the registrant their confirmation and results code again.
Fixed & improved
- Deleting an event now refuses while any entry or sponsorship paid through Scorven hasn't been refunded, so a delete can never strand someone's money. Refund them, or cancel the event instead.
Beta build 63
How your index is calculated, in the open.
New
- A round you stop after exactly one full nine now posts as a nine, the way GHIN treats it, instead of being left out.
- Stats has a new 'How your index is calculated' page that lists the rules Scorven follows and the places it has to approximate: the expected score for a nine, the starting point when you reach 54 holes, no playing-conditions adjustment, and the choices Scorven makes on purpose — rounds you score alone count, hidden rounds stay in your record, and your index updates the moment a round ends.
Beta build 62
The World Handicap System rules, in the app.
New
- A new app icon and launch screen: the Scorven wordmark, cream on ink, with the brass period. The website favicon and email header follow suit.
- Your Handicap Index now follows the World Handicap System rules end to end. Until you've posted 54 holes, Home and your profile show how far along you are ("Establishing · 27 of 54"), and Stats charts every revision once it's official.
- Manual courses can carry Front 9 and Back 9 ratings, so nine-hole rounds count exactly the way GHIN rates them.
- Adding a course by hand no longer guesses its rating for you. Type the real course and slope ratings from the scorecard, or leave both blank — rounds on a course with no rating don't count toward your Handicap Index, and the tee picker says "no rating" so you know before you tee off.
Fixed & improved
- Nine-hole net rounds allocate the right number of strokes — the setup screen was applying the 18-hole rating to a nine's par, which handed out far too many.
Service update
Your Handicap Index now follows the World Handicap System rules.
New
- Scorven now calculates your Handicap Index under the 2024 World Handicap System rules, the same rules GHIN uses: no index until you've posted 54 holes (you'll see your progress instead), the lowest differentials of your last 20 scores with the official adjustment table, net double bogey from your course handicap as the most any hole can count, exceptional-score reductions, and the caps that keep an index from climbing more than a few strokes over your best of the past year.
- Nine-hole rounds count from your very first one — the nines you played before reaching 54 holes join your record the day you get there. Scrambles and alternate-shot rounds still never count; a scored card is what makes a round yours.
- Your index is calculated on Scorven's side the moment a round completes, so it stays right even if you haven't opened the app in a while — and every player sees the same number.
- Rounds on a course with no course and slope rating don't count toward your Handicap Index; the tee picker says "no rating" so you know before you tee off. Courses added by hand with the old placeholder rating now count as unrated.
Fixed & improved
- Expect your number to move by up to a stroke as the record is rebuilt under the new rules. If you'd typed in an index and have fewer than 54 holes posted, that number stays until your rounds establish one.
Beta build 61
The Winners screen, flight by flight.
New
- The Winners screen is rebuilt around flights, on both consoles: one calm card per flight showing its payouts and its winners exactly as the board tells them, with a status line that says what still needs you — a tie to settle, a missing card, or nothing at all.
- All the tools live behind each flight's Edit button now: the tag chips, amounts, player status (WD, DQ, Bust), and hand-set board positions, scoped to just the flight you're fixing. One way to do everything — the old reassign pickers and the long rulings list are gone.
- Warnings land where they belong: a tie prompt, a missing-card note, or "the scores have moved since you ruled" appears on the flight it's about instead of page-wide. The calcutta's Publish control sits once at the top.
Fixed & improved
- A four-flight event's Winners screen no longer scrolls through hundreds of rows and chips to answer "who won?"
Beta build 60
Tag your winners — the board shows payouts and tags, not guesses.
New
- A tag editor on the Winners screen, both consoles: pick a flight, tap the tags each team holds — T1/T2/T3 for the tournament, C1/C2/C3 for the calcutta. One team can hold several tags (C2 and C3 at once) and several teams can share one, so however your committee split it, two taps records it.
- The boards now show the payouts and the tags without guessing who takes what: each place's payment stands on its own line, winners read as tags and names, and no dollar figure is invented next to anyone. Hand-tagged winners carry no amount unless you type one on their row.
- DQ joins WD in the score box: type DQ (web) or tap the new DQ button beside Done (app) to disqualify a player right from scoring. Same rules as WD — a score typed over it puts them back in play, emptying the box undoes it.
Fixed & improved
- Tied winners the committee split their own way no longer show a made-up per-person amount on the public board.
- The shareable leaderboard no longer repeats the winners in a line above each flight — the tags on each name carry that now. The payouts stay up top.
Beta build 59
Type WD where the score goes.
New
- Withdraw a player right from the scoring screen: type WD in their round's score box (web console) or tap the new WD button beside Done (app), and they're out of contention — the flight's winners can post without waiting on a card that's never coming. A WD in round one carries into every later round on its own.
- The boards say it plainly: a withdrawn player's row drops to the bottom of their flight with a WD marker by the name, WD in the position and total, and WD in any round they didn't finish — rounds they did play keep their real scores. Disqualifications read the same way with a DQ marker.
- Score boxes only accept what belongs in them — digits or the letters spelling WD. Stray keys never land.
- Changed your mind? Type a score over the WD and they're back in play; empty the box and the withdrawal is undone. Correcting a score they actually shot never quietly reinstates them, and a disqualification can only be lifted from Rulings.
Fixed & improved
- A player who withdrew mid-tournament no longer floats to the top of their flight's board on the strength of a partial score.
Beta build 58
Calcutta pays on day two, and the boards say who won.
New
- Winner badges on every leaderboard: tournament places wear a green T1 / T2 / T3 next to the name, calcutta places a gold C1 / C2 / C3 — on the app's boards, the public results page, and the clubhouse TV. Badges appear once a flight's final round is in (calcutta badges once the auction is published), and tied teams wear the same badge because they split the money.
- Split the winners however your committee did: a hand-set place now ADDS to a team's tags instead of replacing them, so one team can wear C2 and C3 at once — and another team in the same flight can hold them too. Each tag carries its own hand-set amount, and clearing a team's rulings removes all of its tags in one go.
Fixed & improved
- Calcutta winners are now ranked by the final day's score alone — the best round on day two takes the calcutta, exactly how the game is played. Tournament winners still rank on the combined total. One-day events are unaffected.
- The hole sheet's stat marks got a glow-up: GIR now sits in line with Fairway, Bunker, and Penalty, and a marked stat lights up solid gold with a checkmark — no more squinting to tell what's selected. Putts gets its own line above them.
Beta build 57
Pull-to-refresh stops crying wolf.
Fixed & improved
- Letting go of a pull-to-refresh early no longer flashes false errors like "Couldn't load this club" — across every screen, a cancelled refresh now quietly keeps what you were looking at, and error messages are saved for the times something actually failed.
- A club page mid-payment-setup no longer errors out when our payment provider is slow to answer — you get the last known status instead.
- Live-round screens are lighter on your battery and data: the lobby stops checking for updates once the round starts, and reactions stop refreshing once the round is over.
Beta build 56
Flighting on the phone, the way the web console does it.
New
- The Flights screen is now the blind flighting board from the web console. Only scores show while you flight — no names, no bias. Tap a score to pick up every team that shot it (teams with the same number always flight together), drop them in another flight, and nothing saves until you press Apply.
- Add or remove flights on the fly, dial the Championship spread cap, and re-suggest — the same natural-breaks engine the web console runs, now on the phone.
- Applying your flights offers to build the round-2 tee sheet straight from them: bottom flights in the morning, top flights in the afternoon, groups paired by day-1 score.
Fixed & improved
- Moving a team between flights on a two-round tournament no longer makes the whole list vanish — the screen now works from day-1 totals the way the web console always has, and your moves stay on screen until you apply them.
Beta build 55
Tap the score, the stats follow.
New
- Smart stat fill. Tap a score and the app assumes the traditional route to the hole: at par or better it marks the green in regulation and fills in your putts (a 3 on a par 4 becomes GIR plus one putt); over par it assumes a missed green and two putts. Every field stays yours to correct — chip-ins and flop-shot saves are one tap away from the truth.
- Two new hole marks: Bunker and Penalty. Log that you were in the sand or took a drop, right next to fairway and GIR — one tap each, never guessed for you.
- The Round Recap counts them: bunkers and penalties join GIR%, fairways, and putts on your round summary and its front/back/par breakdowns.
- Tournament rounds included — when the organizer has stat tracking on, smart fill and the new marks work on your tournament card too, and everything rides into your round history.
Fixed & improved
- Editing a score now updates its stats with it — previously a 4 corrected to a 6 quietly kept the green-in-regulation mark from the 4.
Beta build 54
The tournament console, in the order your event actually runs.
New
- The tournament screen now runs on four phases — Setup, Field, Play, Money — in the app and on the web console alike, and the same tool lives in the same phase on both. Setup is everything you stage beforehand: your event's shape, editing it (now a visible card, not a hidden menu), sponsors, and the print pack. Field is building your roster: the sign-up link, advertising, entries and check-in. Play is the day itself. Money settles up.
- Organizers get a live leaderboard in the app. A Live Leaderboard card in Play shows standings exactly as players see them — no more borrowing an entrant's phone to check the board.
- The web console gains a Leaderboard tab: your live board link, the leaderboard code, the clubhouse TV board link (finally one click away), a scannable QR for players, and the close/reopen switch — every way people watch your event, on one page.
- The leaderboard code moved next to the live board in Play — it's what players ask you for on the course.
Fixed & improved
- League organizers who never entered their own event can now open its leaderboard in the app — previously the board acted like it didn't exist unless you were playing in it.
Beta build 53
Accepting an invite actually takes you somewhere.
New
- Round invites in your notifications are now live — Accept or Decline right from the bell, without hunting for the invite somewhere else.
- Accepting an invite drops you straight into the round's lobby, where you can see the group forming — and your Home screen keeps an "Up Next" card for any lobby you've joined, so the round is never lost between accepting and teeing off.
- When the host starts the round, you're carried onto the scorecard automatically — no more sitting in a lobby that quietly went stale.
Fixed & improved
- Tapping a round-invite notification from your lock screen now opens the app to your invites instead of nowhere in particular.
- Opening a round that hasn't teed off yet lands on its lobby instead of an empty results screen.
Beta build 52
A calmer club.
New
- The club screen is a hub now. Your club's identity, three at-a-glance numbers — members, events run, next event — and four clear doors: Tournaments, People, Announcements, Payments. The member list no longer greets you at the door.
- People, organized by responsibility. One screen for everyone in the club: admins at the top, role-holders under their role, members below, with join requests (badged on the hub so you never miss one), invites, and role management in their own tabs. The join policy and invite link live where recruiting happens.
Fixed & improved
- Announcements and Stripe setup each moved to their own screen — same tools, less scrolling.
Beta build 51
Sell your holes. Print your event.
New
- Hole sponsorships. Set sponsorship levels with their own prices and perks, stock spots per hole (or custom spots like a clubhouse banner), and share a sponsor page where local businesses pick a hole, upload a logo, and pay online — sold-out spots disappear automatically, and every sponsorship waits for your approval before it shows anywhere.
- Sponsors ride the event. Approved sponsors appear on the sign-up page, the live leaderboard page, the new clubhouse TV board, and — for top levels — right on players' scorecards as their group reaches the sponsored hole.
- The printable event pack. Hole sponsor signs, cart signs, scorecards with handicap dots already marked, and the tee sheet with an alphabetical check-in list — all generated from what you've already entered, each with a QR code that opens the live leaderboard. Print from the web console onto card stock and the event dresses itself.
- A clubhouse TV board. Open your leaderboard link with /tv on the end on any smart TV browser: full-screen scores, one flight at a time, refreshing themselves.
- Record in-person sponsor sales in the app — a handshake deal counts against the same inventory, and refunds re-open the spot automatically.
Fixed & improved
- Approving or editing things in the organizer console now updates on screen immediately in more cases — some saves previously landed but didn't show until you left and came back.
- The course search error message no longer blames your internet connection when the problem is on our end.
Service update
Course search is back.
Fixed & improved
- Course search and nearby suggestions could fail with a "check your connection" message even on a good connection, after our course data provider changed how it identifies courses. Fixed on our side — no app update needed, and searches you'd already tried will work again.
- Searching for a course you'd searched before could show the same false connection error instead of using what the app already knew. Also fixed server-side.
Beta build 50
Rulings from the course.
New
- The Rulings card comes to the app. Everything build 49 gave the web console — hand-set finishing places, ties that split the money, withdrawn/disqualified/busted, typed payout amounts — now lives on the tournament's Winners screen on your phone, where scoring disputes actually happen.
- The app's Rulings card also lists teams that never turned in a card, so you can withdraw a no-show right from the course and let the flight's winners finalize. (The web console will catch up on this one.)
- If scores move after you've ruled, the app shows the same 'scores have moved' notice as the web console — your ruling stands until you say otherwise.
Fixed & improved
- Tied winners no longer risk rendering as a single row on the app's winners lists.
- Typing a place or amount and tapping away without hopping to another field now saves reliably — the number pad gained a Done button.
Beta build 49
The organizer has the final say.
New
- Organizers can set the finishing places by hand. Put two teams on the same place and they tie — sharing the position and splitting the money between them. Every team keeps its real score on the row, so an unusual order reads as a ruling rather than a mistake.
- Payout amounts are yours to type, on both the tournament payout and the calcutta. Groups that divide their money their own way no longer have to accept the arithmetic.
- Mark a team withdrawn, disqualified or busted. Withdrawing someone who never turned in a card lets the rest of the flight finish — previously one no-show could hold up the winners indefinitely.
- If scores get corrected after you've ruled, your ruling stands and the console tells you it no longer matches, so you can decide rather than being overruled by a recalculation.
Fixed & improved
- Tied teams are no longer paid different amounts. Two players on the same score used to be handed different places and different money essentially at random, while the leaderboard showed them tied — they now share the place and split the payout.
- A tied pair could vanish from the organizer's winners list, showing only one of the two.
Beta build 48
Tournaments that remember every year.
New
- Run it again: when a tournament's in the books, one button sets up next year's — the format, tee, payouts, calcutta setup and rules all copy across, and the two years link together as one event. Sign-ups start empty with their own link, and you set the dates yourself (a member-guest is "the second weekend in June", not "June 14th again").
- A year picker on the leaderboard. Open a recurring event and flip between years — every past leaderboard exactly as it finished, with flights, positions and ties intact. Play any year and you can look back at all of them, including the ones you missed.
- Past years on the public link too, so people following along can see how the event has gone. Yours to switch off per event if you'd rather keep the history in the app.
- Calcutta history, if you want it: each player's sale price, the pot in their flight, and what each place paid. Off by default — turn it on per event.
- Finished leaderboards are now saved exactly as they ended. Correcting a hole's par on a course years later can't quietly rewrite a tournament you played in 2026.
Fixed & improved
- Two-round tournaments now show the combined total. A gross event showed "R1: 72 · R2: 74" and your score against par, but never the 146 — the one number you actually compare across years.
Beta build 47
Your tournament leaderboard, kept for good.
New
- Open a tournament round in your history and there's now a View Leaderboard button — the full final board for that event: every player's result, the flights, the payouts and the calcutta.
- Final leaderboards are permanent for the people who played them. Once an organizer closes results the shared public link stops working, as it always has, but if you were in the field you keep your board for good — go back to a tournament from three months ago and the finishing order is still there.
- Tournaments you've already played now keep their leaderboard on the tournament screen too, instead of the board disappearing the moment results close.
Fixed & improved
- A finished tournament's board now says "Final results" instead of "Scoring is live" when somebody in the field never turned in a card.
Beta build 46
Tournament rounds count now — and the leaderboard finally speaks golf.
New
- Leaderboards read in golf, not arithmetic: every standing — in the app, on the public results page, on the position strip above your card — now shows how you stand against par (E, +2, −1) through however many holes you've played, instead of a running stroke count. Net events show gross and net side by side, so you can see both at a glance.
- Your tournament rounds are real rounds. Once your card is turned in and the organizer closes results, a solo tournament round lands in your history like any other: rounds played, scoring average, best round, birdies and eagles. Open it and the full card is there.
- Because tournament rounds count, they now feed your handicap too — usually your most reliable scores. Expect your index to move a little when this lands, and to arrive sooner if you were still short of the three rounds it takes to calculate one.
- Optional stat tracking: organizers can let players log putts, greens in regulation and fairways hit on their own card. It's purely for you — it can't change a score, a standing or a payout — and it carries into your round recap afterward.
- Organizers now choose who enters scores, three ways: players and paper cards together (the default — app players score themselves, walk-ups hand in a card for you to enter), players only (a Scorven account is required to sign up, and you key nothing), or just you (the paper-scorecard tournament).
Fixed & improved
- You can only score your own card now. Anyone in your group could previously enter — and change — scores for other players; your row is yours, everyone else's is read-only. Turning in a card works the same way: yours only.
- Scoring your own card now means being signed in — the scoring link asks you to sign in first, and if you don't have an account the organizer enters your card at the end of the round.
Beta build 45
The rules, right on your scorecard.
New
- Tournament rules: organizers can write the rules for an event — local rules, max score, how ties are settled, whatever the day needs — and players read them without asking anyone.
- An info button on your scorecard opens the rules any time mid-round, so you can settle a question standing over the ball.
- The same rules show up on the tournament's sign-up page before you enter, and on the public results page for anyone following along.
- Set them up in the tournament's Scoring settings — add a line per rule, in any order you like. No rules? Nothing changes: no button, no clutter.
Beta build 44
Bring your friends, and turn in your card.
New
- Add teammates from your friends: signing up for a tournament, pick your team straight from your accepted friends instead of typing names — they get the tournament in their app, the full live scoring experience, their handicap comes along from their profile, and they get their own confirmation email. Friends only, on purpose: nobody can sign up someone they don't know.
- Turn in your card: when your group's card is full, one tap turns it in — every completed card in the group goes in together, just like handing the paper card to the scorer's table. Scores lock, the leaderboard shows who's in, and an organizer can always reopen a card if something needs fixing.
- Organizers see cards come in live: the scoring console shows a running "Cards in" count with a gold chip on every turned-in row and a one-tap reopen.
- Scramble scorecards now show the whole team on the scoring grid, not just whoever registered.
Fixed & improved
- The gold "Card in" badge on the tournament hub now actually appears when your card is done — it was unreachable before.
- The email-link scoring page now shows why a score didn't save (card turned in, scoring locked, or an official's total standing) instead of silently snapping back.
Beta build 43
One scoring surface for organizers — and simpler setup to match.
New
- Organizer scoring is one surface now: no more flipping between Round totals and Hole-by-hole tabs. Every team's row shows its hole scores and its total together — enter holes and the total adds itself, or type a round total straight off the paper card and the hole cells cross out to show the keyed number is the one that counts. Touch any hole to put hole-by-hole back in charge.
- Keying a total no longer erases hole scores: they stay on the card, crossed out, so a quick correction from the scorer's table can never wipe out what a group entered from their phones.
- Tournament setup got simpler: the "How are scores recorded?" question is gone — just flip whether players score their own cards, and the console handles the rest. Either way, organizers can always enter or change any score.
Fixed & improved
- A tournament page no longer mentions self-scoring from the app when the organizer has player scoring turned off.
Beta build 42
Organizers choose who keeps score.
New
- A new Players section in tournament setup: decide whether entrants score their own cards from their phones, or officials enter scores from the paper cards — for tournaments where the physical scorecard is the record, player entry is off and the app says so plainly.
- The hide-live-leaderboard switch now lives in the app's tournament setup too (it arrived on the web console in build 41) — keep standings under wraps until your reveal, right from your phone.
Fixed & improved
- On organizer-scored tournaments, the signup confirmation email no longer includes a Score Your Round button, and the app shows "Scores entered by the organizer" instead of a scoring screen.
Beta build 41
Score your tournament round from your phone — plus net scoring and the new Badges screen.
New
- Tournament scoring comes to your pocket: entrants score their group's card right in the app. Your scorecard unlocks at your group's tee time — the 8:00 group is live at 8:00 while the 9:00 group watches a countdown — and it's the same card-first entry you know from casual rounds: tap a cell, log the score, keep walking.
- The leaderboard rides along while you play: a one-line strip above your card shows your position, your total, and the leader — tap it for the top five, no flipping screens. Works for fields of any size.
- Organizers can hide the live leaderboard during play: a new tournament setting keeps standings under wraps (in the app and on the public results link) until you're ready for the reveal — scoring keeps flowing, and you always see the board.
- See every badge and how to earn it: the new Badges screen on the Me tab shows the whole collection — each milestone badge with a progress bar to your next tier (2 of 10 birdies and counting), the one-shot feats, and the full checklist of 24 landmark courses to collect.
- Tournaments can now be scored net: turn on "Net scoring (handicaps)" when setting up a stroke-play tournament and the leaderboard ranks everyone by net — gross score minus their course handicap, computed from their handicap index and the tee you picked.
- Handicaps collect themselves: entrants can type their index on the signup page or in the app, players who sign up with a Scorven account bring the handicap already on their profile, and the entry import spreadsheet has a Handicap Index column. Organizers can adjust anyone's number for the event in the console — it never touches the player's profile.
- Leaderboards show the whole story on net tournaments: net total up front, with gross and course handicap right beside it, on the public results page, the web console, and in the app. No index on file? You play at scratch, and the console flags who still owes you a number.
- Flights, cut lines, payouts, calcutta winners, and league season points all follow the net standings — the money and the leaderboard can never disagree.
Fixed & improved
- Profile stats are own-ball only now: scramble and alternate-shot rounds no longer count toward best round, scoring average, rounds played, or birdie tallies — a shared team ball isn't a personal score. Wolf, match play, and low ball still count (you played your own ball), and course-explorer and streak badges still count every round you showed up for. Existing profiles correct themselves automatically.
- One-day tournaments work now: setting the start and end to the same day no longer errors on save. (Server-side, this is already fixed for everyone — even on older app builds.)
- Editing a tournament no longer nudges its dates: a timezone quirk could show — and re-save — the day before the one you picked, walking the tournament earlier with each edit on both web and app.
- A one-day tournament reads as live on its day now, instead of flipping to "awaiting final results" before play even starts.
- When a tournament can't be saved, the app now tells you why instead of a generic "try again."
Beta build 40
Share your scorecard — a proper card, straight to the group chat.
New
- Any finished round can now be shared as a scorecard image: open a round from your history, tap share, and send it anywhere — Messages, any app, or straight to your camera roll.
- It's not a screenshot. The export is a clean paper scorecard — course name up top, every hole with its birdie circles and bogey squares, net totals and stroke dots when you played with handicaps, and DNF marks for anyone who ducked out early.
Beta build 39
Leagues grow up: host real tournaments — no club required.
New
- Leagues are now a full tournament-hosting service. Running a charity scramble, a company outing, an annual invitational? Create a league, set up your tournament, and you get everything clubs get: a public signup link, a live leaderboard, entries, tee sheets, flights, cut lines, a scoring console, payouts, and even a calcutta board.
- Take real entry fees: connect your league to Stripe and entrants pay right on the signup page — deposits, refunds, the works. Prefer cash or Venmo? Advertise the fee and mark entries paid yourself.
- Seasons turn one-off events into a race: group tournaments into a season, decide how many points each place is worth, and Scorven keeps the standings — ties split their places' points, and champions are crowned when you close it out.
- Season rosters fit real groups: members can be Scorven accounts or just names, and missing an event never drops anyone from the season — skip week 7, come back for week 8.
- Every season gets a shareable public standings page, updated live as results close — perfect for the group chat.
- Run it all from anywhere: the full console lives in the app and on the web, and past editions of a recurring event stay in your league's history for score recalling.
Fixed & improved
- The old friend-group league rounds (weekly seasons scored from app rounds) have been retired in favor of the new hosting model — if your group wants standings, seasons now do it properly. Your played rounds and wager history are untouched.
- Closing or reopening tournament results from the app no longer shows an error while quietly succeeding — the button flips right away now.
- Entering a round total in the scoring console now has a proper Done button, so a single entry's score can't slip through uncommitted when you back out.
Beta build 38
Wolf plays by your rules now — carryovers, cash games, and no more mystery wolf.
New
- Wolf carryovers are here: turn on "Carry tied holes" and a halved hole's pot rolls onto the next one, stacking until somebody wins it outright. If the round ends with a pot still riding, the leaderboard says so — it goes unclaimed, just like the skins rule.
- Cash Wolf: a whole second way to play. Set a per-hole stake instead of points — every loser pays every winner, a lone wolf collects from the entire field, and a Blind Wolf call doubles the hole. Every dollar settles automatically into the who-pays-whom ledger, no napkin math.
- The scorecard finally announces the wolf: a panel right under the card shows whose hole it is, their call — partner, lone, or blind — and any pot riding. No more finishing a hole and realizing nobody ever made the call.
- Wolf calls belong to the wolf now. Only the wolf on the tee can make or change their own call (you handle it for your walk-ons), so nobody's call gets fat-fingered by someone else's phone.
- Low Ball can go single-team: your group split off from the others? Track just your team's 2-low (or any N-low) — no phantom second team required, standings show your team's running total.
Fixed & improved
- Creating a Low Ball round with a lone opponent no longer quietly caps your "N low" at 1 — the cap now only reflects the teams actually playing, and removing a player from setup adjusts it in the open instead of failing at the last step.
- The lobby no longer shows a one-choice team picker (and a "Team 1" tag under every name) when everyone's on the same team.
Beta build 37
Handicaps, for real — enter yours, play net or gross, and see it on the card.
New
- You can finally tell Scorven your handicap: enter it when you sign up or any time in Edit Profile. Don't have one? Play a few rounds and Scorven works it out for you — and once it has three full rounds of yours, the calculated index takes over from there.
- Every round now asks the question that starts every real match: net or straight up? A new Scoring choice at round setup applies handicap strokes (the gap to your group's low man) or turns them off entirely. Straight up is the default — strokes are now a choice, not a surprise.
- Playing net, the scorecard shows it like a proper card should: a dot on every hole where a player gets a stroke, their strokes next to their name, and a net total right under the gross.
- Walk-ons can carry a handicap too — add their number when you add them, and they get their strokes like everyone else.
- Picking a tee now shows its rating and slope, so you know exactly what you're signing up for — and yes, both have always been part of the handicap math.
- Left a round sitting open? Scorven now nudges your group every hour it goes quiet, and after 24 hours it closes the round out for you — results, payouts, and all.
Fixed & improved
- Courses imported without official rating data no longer distort handicap calculations — unrated tees are handled sensibly and marked "no rating" in the tee picker.
- Entering scores for a walk-on now shows their handicap strokes on the entry sheet, same as your own.
Beta build 36
Leagues are here — real seasons, standings, and champions for your crew.
New
- The League tab is now the real thing: start a league with your friends and pick its shape — a one-day major, a weekly season, a series of named events, or a rolling window where every qualifying round you play counts automatically.
- You choose how the standings work, too: placement points, total strokes, head-to-head record, or a money list straight off your wagers — scored gross or net.
- Anyone in the league can start a league round. Split into as many groups as you like — every group's round counts — and bring a guest anytime; they play, they just don't enter the standings.
- End the season and Scorven crowns your champion (ties share it). Every past season lives on under Previous Champions, and one tap runs it back.
- League rounds wear their colors: a league badge on the scorecard jumps straight to the standings, and you'll hear about it the moment you're added to a league or a season wraps.
- Finding friends is finally a search: tap the search field and Scorven quietly suggests people you likely know — start typing for live results, add with one tap.
Fixed & improved
- The Tournaments tab's Club list now shows only tournaments you're entered in — current and past. Discovering your club's events lives on the club's own page, where it belongs.
Beta build 34
A new bottom bar — Tournaments front and center — and every member sees the board.
New
- The bottom bar is new: Home · Tournaments · Clubs · Social · Me. Play merged into Home — Start a Round, your recent rounds, and Round History all live there now — and Tournaments earned its own tab.
- The Tournaments tab has two worlds: League (events you and your friends host) and Club — every club tournament you can open, live and upcoming first, past below.
- Club members now see their club's tournaments right on the club screen — and can open any live leaderboard with one tap. No results code needed.
- Entered in a tournament? It says so everywhere: a Your Tournaments card on Home, an ENTERED badge on the lists, and a new entry page with your team, flight, and tee time — plus the live board with your row highlighted.
- When a club enters you into a tournament, you get a notification the moment it happens.
Fixed & improved
- Club tournament results now open right in the app instead of a web page when you're signed in.
Beta build 33
Wolf settles itself — plus fix your card after the round, right on the card.
New
- Wolf rounds now end with a Settlement card: who pays whom, line by line — "Bryan → Tyler $5.00" — at your per-point rate, on the final results and the round's page. Lines are grouped by payer so everyone can read their own tab, and yours are highlighted.
- Fixing a finished round now works like live scoring — tap the hole on the card and the same scoring panel opens. That also means putts, greens, fairways, greenies, and sandies can be corrected after the round, not just scores, and payouts recalculate as you go.
- Greenies and sandies are now available in Low Ball / Best Ball — you're playing your own ball, so closest-to-the-pin and sand saves count.
- Adding a walk-on and other confirmations now use Scorven's own look instead of plain system popups.
Fixed & improved
- Greenies and sandies can no longer be attached to scramble or alternate-shot rounds anywhere — they're own-ball side games, and a shared team ball can't credit one player's shot.
Beta build 32
The scorecard is the score entry — tap a hole, score it right there.
New
- Score straight from the card: tap any hole on the scorecard and a compact panel slides up under it — big − and + controls, and one tap on the dashed number logs par.
- Putts, greens in regulation, fairways, greenies, and sandies live in the same panel — and so do the Wolf call and the Nassau press.
- Next moves with you: after a hole it jumps to your next unscored hole (walk-ons in your care come first), and the card scrolls along with the hole you're scoring highlighted.
- The card stays visible while you score — tap any other cell to switch to it without closing the panel.
Beta build 31
Clubs grow up — join policies, invites, and leaderboards without codes.
New
- Clubs can be open or invite-only. Open clubs take join requests like before; invite-only clubs admit only invited players and say so in the directory.
- Invite players to your club two ways: share an invite link anywhere, or invite straight from a player's profile if you're an admin of the club.
- Got invited? Accept or decline right from your Clubs list or the club's page — invites show who sent them.
- Joining a club automatically makes you a Member, so member features work from day one.
- Club members can open a tournament's live leaderboard without a results code — and so can anyone registered in the tournament with their account. Codes keep working for everyone else until results close.
- Club name popups now match the rest of Scorven instead of a plain system alert.
Fixed & improved
- Leaving or being removed from a club now clears your club roles, so rejoining doesn't quietly restore old permissions.
- Every club now has its standard roles from the start — including clubs created before this build.
Beta build 30
See into your friends' games, real team names, and a smoother round from tee to Done.
New
- Tap a friend's recent match to open the full scorecard — hole by hole, standings, and side games — and tap anyone who played to visit their profile and add them as a friend.
- Team names now show who's actually on the team — "T. Cutshall · Bryan F" instead of "Team 1" — and tapping a team name shows the full lineup.
- The scorecard now says what you're playing — game mode and holes right at the top, and live rounds show your custom round name.
- Verify your email without leaving the app — reminders and anything that needs a verified address now take you straight to a verify screen, and the web page can hand you back to the app.
- Refunded tournament entries now show a "Refunded" tag on the roster.
Fixed & improved
- Finished rounds now end with a proper Done button — no more being stared down by "Leave / Cancel" after the round is over (and the back button works during play again).
- Watching a friend's live round now shows just their scorecard — score-entry screens no longer appear for rounds you aren't playing in, and your own round no longer shows up under "Live Now."
- Scores you just entered (and their putts, GIR, and fairway buttons) no longer blink away for a few seconds after saving.
- Course search got a tune-up: courses your group has played are always right there under "Your Courses," searches are faster, you get a straight answer when the course lookup is busy, and adding a course manually can't dead-end on a blank rating anymore.
Beta build 29
Team management in the lobby and smarter post-round editing.
New
- Assign teams in the lobby — the round creator can now place every player (including friends who join late and walk-ons) onto a team before starting, and everyone can see the team lineup.
- "Card edited" alerts now take you straight to the round — tap the notification or the in-app banner to see exactly what changed.
Fixed & improved
- Two people editing the same finished round at once can no longer overwrite each other — the second save is stopped with a clear message and the card refreshes to the latest version.
- A team round can't start while anyone is missing a team, and a low-ball round can't start with a team smaller than its "N-low" count — with messages that tell you exactly what to fix.
Beta build 28
Round names, match history, score editing, and a big round-lifecycle cleanup.
New
- Name your rounds — give a round a name at setup ("Saturday Skins") and find it fast in your history.
- Recent Matches on profiles — see a friend's last five completed rounds. A new "Show match history on my profile" setting lets you switch yours off.
- Remove a round from your history — long-press any finished round to permanently remove it from your own history and stats. Other players keep their copy.
- Fix a score after the round — completed rounds stay editable for 24 hours. Results and wagers recalculate, the round is marked "Edited after round," and everyone who played gets notified.
- Confirm Hole — a single tap logs the remaining par prefills and jumps you to your next unscored hole.
- One-team scramble — play a scramble with just your own team (solo, or with friends and walk-ons) and track your score without a phantom opponent.
- Hand off a lobby — the person who created a lobby can now leave it without cancelling; hosting passes to the first player who joined.
Fixed & improved
- Score entry is decluttered — you only see the cards you're responsible for: your own, your team's, and walk-ons in your care.
- Reactions from friends watching a live round now actually stick to the hole.
- A round can no longer start with an empty team, and match play needs both players to have joined.
- Finished rounds are locked in — a completed round can't be cancelled out of everyone's history, and side-game tags lock 24 hours after the round like everything else.
- Scrambles and alternate-shot rounds no longer affect your Handicap Index — only formats where you play your own ball count.
Beta build 27
First fixes from beta feedback — round lifecycle and stat integrity.
Fixed & improved
- Solo rounds (or rounds with only walk-ons) now offer Cancel instead of Leave, so a round can't be left stranded with nobody in it.
- Cancelled rounds disappear from the Home tab immediately instead of after a delay.
- Cancelled or abandoned rounds no longer count birdies, eagles, or aces toward your stats — if a round isn't in your history, it isn't in your numbers.
Beta launch
Scorven's private beta opens on TestFlight.
New
- Live scorecards for stroke play, match play, scramble, alternate shot, low ball, and Wolf.
- Side games and wagers — skins, greenies, sandies, Nassau — settled automatically from the card.
- Friends, clubs, tournaments, player profiles with badges, and a live tournament board.