Add Dots

Start a round with 2 to 5 players, open More Games and tap Dots. You can also add it mid-round from the Bets tab.

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Pick the Dots That Count

Check the dots your group plays: Birdie, Eagle, Greenie (closest to the pin on a par 3), Sandy (up and down from a bunker), Poley (a putt longer than the flagstick), Chip-in, Barkie (par after hitting a tree) and Arnie (par without hitting the fairway). Then set the $ per dot.

Defaults: Birdie, Eagle, Greenie and Sandy start checked. Save your group’s usual list in Game Defaults.

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Birdies and Eagles Score Themselves

Enter scores as usual. A gross birdie adds a dot automatically and an eagle adds two. Change a score and the dots follow.

Gross only: Dots ignore handicap strokes, so a net birdie doesn’t earn a dot.

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Tap the Rest Under Each Player

Every other dot is one tap on the chips under each player’s score buttons. Tap again to take it back. Greenie only shows on par 3s, and only one player can have it on a hole.

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Settle Up

Each dot collects the $ per dot from every other player. Four players at $1 a dot: a sandy is worth $3 to the player who made it. Settle Up shows who owes whom across Dots and every other game.

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The game inside the game

Dots (also called junk or trash) pays for the shots everyone remembers: the bunker save, the chip-in, the bomb putt. Nobody has to be leading the match to win money, so every player stays in it until the last hole.

The app keeps the list honest. Birdies and eagles come straight from the scorecard, and each tap dot can only be counted once per player per hole. Run it next to a Nassau or Skins, and one settle-up screen covers it all. Read the full Dots rules for every dot and how groups play them.

How to Play Dots (Junk)