Everything
people ask

Not much. If you're the one setting it up, create an account, name your pool and you've got a code to share. If you're joining one, that code is all you need: enter it, pull your handicap (or set it by hand) and you're in.

By asking in the app — that's what the call-up is for: you set the day (and the time, if it's known) and everyone answers IN, NOT SURE YET or OUT. The middle one matters more than it looks: in a real group plenty of people don't know until the last minute, and without that option they just stay quiet — which looks the same as not having seen it. People can change their mind until it closes, because dropping out the night before happens. The day before, a reminder goes ONLY to whoever hasn't settled their answer, and only once: pestering people who already replied is the fastest way to get notifications switched off. And when you close it, everyone who said yes is already in the tournament, with no need to write to anyone again.

You put a cap on places and whoever's over waits in sign-up order. If someone drops out, the first on the list gets in automatically and is told — a waiting list nobody hears about is useless. And anyone who pulls out and comes back goes to the end: if they kept their spot, signing up "just in case" would be free. The cap is optional and usually you won't want one: in a pool, whoever turns up plays.

No. You score the card out on the course and that's it. The points, the strokes each player gets, the standings, the handicaps and whatever is owed from the bets are all handled by the app. No napkins, no spreadsheets.

Not at all. And if you'd rather not go setting by setting, just describe it in your own words —'we play Stableford, sometimes in pairs, cap 28, plenty of banter'— and the AI advisor sets it up for you. You just review it afterwards. You set the money and bets by hand. And from the second tournament on there's barely anything to set up: the app remembers the one you always run and repeats it with one button.

With a code. When you create the pool you get a short code to share however you like, and it's always there in Members. Everyone joins with it in a moment; and if you'd already added someone by hand, it links to their profile instead of duplicating them.

Yes. You can belong to as many as you like —the Sunday crew, the club league, whatever— and jump between them with one tap, without logging out. To join a new one you just need its code.

No. If you have one, we pull your exact handicap from your federation by name or licence —no taking anyone's word for it. And anyone from outside joins as a guest in two taps.

No. Whoever keeps the card in each group is enough: the rest can follow the live scoring from a link, with nothing to install and no account. That said, the fun is in everyone seeing their own card and their own tab, so usually within two rounds everybody's in.

Yes, and with no card details: setting up the pool, keeping score on the course and running the season standings are free forever. Paying only comes up the day you want the premium side —live scoring, betting, trips— and even then you can start with a pass for a single event.

On the course, one-handed, one tap per hole. The card works out the points, everyone's shots on its own: green for a birdie, red for a double. You play, it counts.

No signal, no problem: you keep scoring as usual, the card is saved on your phone and uploads by itself the moment signal comes back. You won't lose a single shot. And you can close the app and open it again with no connection: what you scored is waiting inside.

Stableford's the usual, but any round can be played as Medal for stroke-play days. You pick it when you set up the round and the standings adjust on their own.

Both. The app adjusts the shots to the course slope, as the WHS says, or you switch it off and play off your handicap as is. You decide round by round.

It counts too. When you set the round up you pick the front or the back nine, and the app hands out the strokes for those nine holes: you play off your usual handicap, with its own scoreboard, its own standings for the day and its own tab, like any other afternoon. And it adds to the season standings just like an 18-hole tournament. There's only one thing a nine-hole round doesn't do: move your handicap. Your index stays where it was, because going up or down needs full 18-hole rounds. For the same reason it doesn't go into the Hall of Fame records: measuring half a round against full ones wouldn't be fair on anyone.

Any course in the world. You search for yours in a database of more than 30,000 —with its tees and each hole's stroke index— and the app works out the shots. Not there? Snap a photo of the scorecard and the app imports it in a moment. Wherever you play, at home or away.

Both, and for everyday play. You set up a tournament any afternoon in three taps —tee times, groups and handicaps done— and share a link so anyone can fill in their card or just watch. It's used all year, not only on league days.

It's one of the best things it does. You set the whole trip up before leaving home —each day with its course and its date— and each day opens on its own when it's due. On top of that there's one standings table for the whole trip and a single Tab: the days add up and you settle at the end. And it runs apart from the league, so whoever stays home carries on with theirs.

A good spread. In pairs, Fourball, Foursome and Greensome; on your own, Syndicate (the American), Skins and Individual. And inside your group, if you fancy needling a different way: Nassau, Match, Vegas, Wolf or Bingo Bango Bongo. There are special tournaments too, like the Nintee Team Cup or the Nintee Match Play. Each with its own scoreboard and separate from the league: they never touch the general standings.

You fix it and that's that: tap the hole, change the strokes, and everything that depends on it —points, the match, who owes what— redoes itself right away. If the tournament is already closed, whoever runs it fixes it from their screen, with nothing to reopen.

You mark them as retired and the app does the right thing without asking anything else: it stops counting their holes, takes them out of the day's standings and settles whatever they had going with the others. No deleting anyone, no rebuilding the group.

Of course, it's the norm: a brother-in-law, a friend from out of town, the one who plays once a year. You add them as a guest in two taps —with their federation handicap or by hand— and they play the round with everyone. They don't count for the season standings, but they do count for whatever is played that day. And the app remembers them for next time.

They add up each round's points and rank the whole crew instantly, with the worst rounds dropped (you pick how many), flights by level and the tournaments you flag as majors scoring double. A proper league without keeping score by hand.

Yes, three, and they all run apart from the general standings. The Nintee Team Cup pits two teams against each other over several sessions, with fourballs, foursomes and singles. The Nintee Match Play is a knockout bracket, one against one until a champion is left. And the Nintee Race is a points chase across the whole season: every tournament pays out by finishing position and you can decide that only each player's best ones count, so it rewards being consistent. The Race is settled in a SINGLE final tournament, and that's where it gets good: if you want, the finalists start with a head start based on how their season went —extra points if you play stableford, fewer strokes if you play medal—. You set the head start for each position yourselves, and you can also leave it at zero and let the final go to whoever plays best on the day.

Sure, with Head to head. It takes every tournament you've played together and tells you who's on top: wins, streak, average edge and the biggest beatdown. And along the way, who your nemesis is and who you feast on.

Each season starts fresh in the standings, but the Hall of Fame keeps the all-time records —the lowest round, the great feats and the great embarrassments— across every season.

Whichever you prefer: it's a pool setting. Out of the box the app brings in the handicap you hold at your federation and from there keeps the pool's own, round by round, using the world system maths (WHS: the best eight of your last twenty). But if you'd rather always play off the official federation one as it is, you flip the setting and that's the one that counts: the app stops working anything out on its own. And for a one-off day, whoever sets the round up can enter someone's handicap by hand. Either way it never replaces the official one on your licence: that one is the federation's, from the cards you hand in.

Only whoever runs it. Closing, fixing a stroke, voiding a day that didn't count or deleting a tournament are theirs; everyone else can see it all but change nothing. It isn't fussiness: it's what stops the standings from shifting on their own with nobody knowing why.

Yes, both. The cap is set in Admin, under "Handicap cap": nobody plays off more strokes than it says, even if their index would give them more. It only trims the playing handicap for each tournament; everyone's index stays their own and goes up or down with their cards as always, so once they drop below the line they play off whatever they're due. And when setting up a tournament you can change or remove the cap for that day. If you want an exception, it's done from the player's card in Admin › Members: "No cap" (they play off all their strokes) or "Other" (their own cap; say 36 when the general one is 18). It only counts in tournaments that carry a cap; if the tournament has none, it does nothing. And it isn't announced: only the organiser sees the mark, in Admin.

Let's start at the end: when the day is done, The Tab tells you who pays whom in the fewest payments, and each unit keeps its own tab —money on one side, beers on the other—. No paper at the bar. So where do those numbers come from? Three places you choose: the whole-tournament bet (the bottom players buy for the top ones, or a pot for the best), each round's games (Nassau, skins, match, syndicate…) and the loose side bets (birdie, twos, the snake… or your own). Bet in whatever unit you like: beers, money, whisky, whatever you fancy.

Yes, with premium. A ledger of income and expenses —dues, prizes, gear, beers— with the balance in plain sight for everyone. The organiser logs it; no more «who put in what».

No, and we don't want to. The app keeps the tab —who owes who and how much, with the fewest payments possible— and you settle it the way you always have: at the bar, by transfer, however you like. What you play for can be money, beers or anything else; the app just counts.

Yes, and it's the best part. With premium, everyone follows the live scoring and the news ticker —who's climbing, who's slipping, who's about to pay— from the sofa. With a public link, even people outside the pool can watch.

Yes, and that's half the fun. When the day closes you get the moments —the birdie, the hole that ruined someone, the run— and the story of the day as an image, ready to drop in the group chat or post on Instagram. Comes with premium or with the event pass.

If you turn alerts on, yes. You get one when your tournament opens —with the time, who you're playing with and which hole you start from—, another when it closes with the result, and any message the organiser sends. You switch them on and off from your profile, and if you don't want them, they stay quiet.

The basics are free forever: setting up the pool, scoring on the course and the season standings. Premium —live, bets, formats, accounts and the Hall— is €12.90 a month or €119.90 a year, VAT included.

That's what passes are for, with no subscription: €19.90 for a whole trip, and €9.90 for a Nintee Team Cup or for the season's Nintee Race. It's a one-off payment, bought by whoever sets the event up, and it only works in there. Mind what it opens and what it doesn't. Inside that event you get the game formats, the betting and side games, the Tab, live scoring with the news band and "Where you stand", the highlights and the story, alerts and several admins. What no pass opens is the season-long stuff: the Hall of Fame, head-to-head, the stats, the pool's accounts and the AI adviser. Those only come with premium. If you later move to the annual plan within 30 days, what you paid for the pass comes off in full.

You enter it and your pool gets premium free for as long as the code is worth, no card needed. If it reaches you through a link, the code is already filled in; otherwise you type it when setting up the pool or on the pricing screen. And if you get two, the months add up.

No. It's a single payment for the pool, not one per player: the group pays once and everyone has it. 8 of you or 30, same price; how you split it between you is your business.

Whenever you like, from your account. No lock-in, no phone calls: you keep premium until the end of the period you paid for.

You add it to your home screen and from then on it behaves like an app: its own icon, full screen with no browser bar, ready for one-handed use out on the course. Two taps, once and for all. ON IPHONE (using Safari — the option doesn't show up in other browsers): open ninteegolf.com, tap the share button —the square with the arrow pointing up, at the bottom centre—, scroll down to "Add to Home Screen" and confirm with "Add", top right. ON ANDROID (using Chrome): open ninteegolf.com, tap the three dots at the top right and pick "Install app" —on some phones it's called "Add to Home screen"—. Confirm and that's it. After that you go in from the icon, without typing the address, and you stay signed in. It's on the App Store and Google Play too.

Inside the app there's a help screen with the things people ask most, explained with screenshots of the app itself, and a button to write to us. We read the messages ourselves, not a robot: if something doesn't work, tell us and we'll fix it.

Yes. Sign in with your email and password wherever you like and you see the same thing: your phone on the course, and the computer at home if you fancy seeing the standings on a big screen. What you enter on one shows up on the other right away.

You can delete your account whenever you want from your profile, and it goes with you. Your rounds stay in the pool where they were played (they're part of its history, like everyone else's), but your account and your personal details are gone. We don't sell data and there are no ads from anyone.