Golf GPS for iPhone
Distance to the green. Nothing else.
One big number: yards from where you’re standing to the center of the green. It updates as you walk. It’s on your Lock Screen. That’s the whole app.
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How a round works
Find your course
Tap Find My Course. It checks your location once and lists what's nearby. Or type the name.
Pick your hole
Start the round and choose the hole you're on. When you walk off the green, tap Next.
Glance and hit
The number is yards to the center of the green. Pull it out, glance, hit.
Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
Read it without unlocking
During a round, the hole and the yardage sit on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Raise the phone, read the number, put it back. No unlocking, no hunting for the app, no swiping past a scorecard. The Live Activity ends when the round ends.
Center of the green. Not the flag.
The flag moves every morning. The middle doesn't. A laser gives you the pin to the yard, if you can see it and hold it steady. Most golfers' approach shots don't land in a one-yard circle anyway. Having the number to the middle on every shot, with nothing to aim, is worth more than a precise number from a device you stopped taking out of the bag in June.
We wrote the honest version, including where a laser is the better tool: Yardage vs. a laser rangefinder.
Is my course mapped?
No match yet. Try a shorter name, the town, or a different spelling. If it really is not here, tell us and we will check it.
Course not listed? Tell us.
Some courses aren't in Yardage yet. Give us the name and town and we'll look.
Course maps ship inside the app, so it works with no signal once your course is loaded. Not listed? Tell us the course and we'll say what we can do. Or browse the course directory by state.
Nobody watching where you walk
No account
Nothing to sign up for. Open the app, start a round.
No ads, no analytics SDKs
There is no tracking code in the app. Nothing to opt out of.
Location stays on the phone
Your location is used during a round you started, and once when you tap Find My Course. The yardage is computed on the phone. No route history is kept.
One exception, and only if you ask
Tap "Green looks wrong?" on the round screen and hold to mark the green. That sends two coordinates and the hole so a person can check it. Otherwise no location leaves the phone.
Every field the app can ever send is listed in the privacy policy. This website uses analytics; the app doesn't.
Free during the beta. Then pay for what you play.
Single round
One round
$1.99
- Up to 8 hours, from the start of the round
- For the occasional round
These are the App Store prices; TestFlight testers play unlimited rounds free during the beta. Everything goes through Apple. Cancel in your iPhone's Subscriptions screen; there's no account with us to close. Details on the pricing page.
What Yardage doesn't do
- No distance to the pin. Center of the green only. The flag moves; the middle doesn't.
- No front and back numbers, no hazards, no lay-ups, no scoring, no stats, no club suggestions. On purpose.
- No Android app, no Apple Watch app, no web app. iPhone only.
- Phone GPS is typically accurate to within about 5 meters (16 feet) under open sky, according to GPS.gov, and worse under trees or next to buildings. The app tells you when the signal is poor instead of showing a confident number it doesn't have. Precise Location has to be on. Longer answer: how accurate golf GPS is, honestly.
- If your course isn't one of the 14,987, the app says so. There's no number for an unmapped course.
More in the FAQ.
Guides worth reading first
Free, sourced, and written for the golfer who wants the number and a plan, not a swing rebuild.
How to break 100
Nine bogeys and nine doubles is 99. A stroke budget and five rules that get you there.
Course management
One hole played three ways, with the expected score for each.
Aim for the center of the green
Why the middle beats the flag for most golfers on most approach shots.
How accurate is golf GPS?
What GPS.gov says, what trees do to it, and when a few yards change the club.
Do you need a rangefinder?
The answer by golfer type, including the shots where a laser wins.
What the yardage markers mean
Plates, posts and sprinkler heads, and what each one measures to.
New to the vocabulary? The golf glossary defines a few hundred terms in plain English. Everything else is in the guides.
Keep Yardage on the course.
One number, on the phone you already carry. Free during the beta.
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