Settle Up Golf How-To Guides

Every walkthrough in one place. Pick the game, format, or feature you're setting up.

New to the app? Start with the full guide → The complete walkthrough, start to finish — setting up a round, scoring it, and settling the bets.

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Set up your first round and get your crew into the app.

The StarterNEW Describe your foursome and your bets in chat, and the AI setup coach picks the games, sets the wagers, and drops you into a ready round. Schedule a RoundNEW Invite your regulars by phone, collect In / Maybe / Out RSVPs, set a meet time, then launch straight into live scoring. Add a Guest Player For visitors, casual players, or as a blind placeholder when your foursome turns up one short. Settle Up IndexNEW The WHS-style handicap calculator built into the app — where to find it, and how to read your differentials.

Betting games

One guide per game — the rules, the setup screen, and how the money settles.

Nassau Front nine, back nine and overall, plus presses — with example wagers and automatic settlement. Skins Wager per skin, carryovers on ties, hole-by-hole payouts, and variants for 2 to 6 players. Match Play 1v1 matchups or 2v2 best ball, front/back/overall wagers, and live dormie tracking. Wolf Tee box rotation, partner picks, lone wolf calls, and point tracking for 3 to 5 players. Sixes (6-6-6) Rotating partners every six holes, scoring each segment, and payouts for a foursome. Vegas Two-digit team numbers, birdie flips, the big swings, and the payout math behind them. Stableford Set your wager per point, toggle net or gross scoring, and let the point totals track themselves. Side Bets Which side bet suits which group, and how to layer several of them into a single round. Snake The three-putt punishment game. Rules and scoring live over on Learn.

Tournaments & events

Multi-group formats, season-long pools, and everything that runs longer than one round.

Team v. Team Run it from your phone — set up the matches, score live across every group, and track standings as they move. Member-Member & Member-Guest Build the pairs, assign foursomes, and track best-ball scoring through to the settle up. Tour Cup Ryder Cup style — assign teams, set up the matches, and watch team points move in real time. Multi-Day Tournament A different course and different games each day, cumulative scoring, and automatic final payouts. Calcutta Live auction or snake draft, payout splits, the half-back rule, and standings that settle themselves. Birdie Pool A season-long pool where everyone races to collect one unique birdie on each of the 18 holes. Cross-Group Challenges One foursome bets another mid-tournament, with live P&L as the scores come in. PGA Tour Betting Pool Pick the event, invite your friends, draft your pros, and settle on Venmo when it wraps.

During & after the round

Following the action, and closing the books when it's done.

Live Leaderboard Read to-par standings, group scores and team points — and share your tournament code. Cast to a TVNEW Put a live leaderboard on the clubhouse screen. Payouts stay hidden by default. Settle Up + Venmo Every payment broken down by game, one-tap Venmo, and a running record of who has settled. Post to GHIN Hole-by-hole or total-score posting, with your scorecard as the source of truth.

Which guide do you need?

These 24 guides are task-shaped: each one covers a single thing you might be setting up, with the actual screens you'll see along the way. If you already know the game you want to play, go straight to it — Nassau, Skins and Wolf are the three most groups start with.

Organising something bigger than a foursome? The tournament guides cover the formats clubs and golf trips actually run: Calcutta auctions, Member-Member and Member-Guest pairs, Ryder Cup-style team events, and multi-day trips where the course and the games change each day.

If you want the rules of a game rather than the app steps — what dormie means, how a shamble differs from a scramble, how handicap strokes are allocated — those live in the Learn section. And if you'd rather read one page end to end than pick a task, the complete guide covers the whole app in order.

Settle Up Golf is free on iOS, Android and the web. Every guide below works the same on all three.

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