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One golfer brings YipLinks. The whole group plays.

Play the game with your group. Learn from it on your own.

Start a game, send the link, and everyone keeps score on their own phone. Wear a Garmin and YipLinks shows you where every stroke went.

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A YipLinks game in progress at Oakmont: on hole 7 a card reads John: 7 net pars or better in a row, with Connor's birdie, John leading by 4 and emoji reactions to send him.

Twelve games. One live board.

Pick a format and YipLinks handles the rules, the handicap strokes and the math. Every score lands on everyone’s phone the moment it’s in. No Garmin needed.

Every birdie gets its moment.

Streaks, comebacks and blowups pop up as they happen, and your group can fire back a reaction. The board updates for everyone, hole by hole.

A YipLinks game in progress at Oakmont: on hole 7 a card reads John: 7 net pars or better in a row, with Connor's birdie, John leading by 4 and emoji reactions to send him.

Strokes worked out for you.

Each player’s handicap sets their strokes for the course and tees they play. Gross and net, side by side.

YipLinks game scorecard: gross and net totals for four players, and a hole by hole card with birdies circled, bogeys boxed and handicap strokes marked.

A podium and awards at the end.

Most birdies, Steady Eddie, hot streak. Share the results with the group text before you leave the parking lot.

YipLinks game results: John wins a Skins game with 9 skins on a podium ahead of Connor and Mike, with awards for most birdies, Steady Eddie and hot streak.

Pick your game.

Two to four players. Every format explains its rules in plain words before you tee off. Points and bragging rights only.

  • Stroke Play

    Every shot counts. Lowest total wins.

  • Skins

    Every hole is worth a skin. Win a hole outright to take it.

  • Nassau

    Three matches in one: the front nine, the back nine and all 18, a point each.

  • Wolf

    Take turns as the Wolf: pick a partner each hole, or go it alone.

  • Best Ball

    Two sides, match play. Your side counts its best score on each hole.

  • Stableford

    Points for every hole against par. Most points wins.

  • Vegas

    Two teams of two. Your two scores make one number: a 4 and a 5 is 45.

  • Sixes

    Three six-hole matches, a new partner for each.

  • Nines

    Three players share 9 points a hole: 5 for the best score, 3 for the next, 1 for the last.

  • Low Ball, Low Total

    Two teams of two: a point for the best score, one for the lower team total.

  • Quota

    Points for every hole against a target set by your handicap.

  • Bingo Bango Bongo

    First on the green, closest once all are on, first in the hole.

Your group is in by the first tee.

One of you starts the game. Everyone else just taps a link. Nobody needs a Garmin to play.

  1. YipLinks game lobby at Oakmont West: the game code CGQ NQD with a Share button, and four players with their handicap index and strokes for the game.

    Start a game

    Pick the course, the tees and a format, then text your group the link. They land right in your game.

  2. A YipLinks game in progress at Oakmont: on hole 7 a card reads John: 7 net pars or better in a row, with Connor's birdie, John leading by 4 and emoji reactions to send him.

    Everyone scores

    Each player taps in their own score on their own phone. No scorekeeper, no napkin.

  3. YipLinks game scorecard: gross and net totals for four players, and a hole by hole card with birdies circled, bogeys boxed and handicap strokes marked.

    Watch the board

    Handicap strokes, gross and net, and who’s up, worked out the moment a score is in.

  4. YipLinks game results: John wins a Skins game with 9 skins on a podium ahead of Connor and Mike, with awards for most birdies, Steady Eddie and hot streak.

    Crown a winner

    The podium, the awards and the full scorecard, ready to share before the 19th hole.

Connor Dolan smiling in a Paris garden.

Why I built YipLinks.

I’m Connor, a weekend golfer in Sonoma County who shoots in the 90s.

Where it started.
My Garmin recorded every shot, but Garmin Golf never told me where my strokes went. I built YipLinks to answer that: strokes gained, real club yardages, and one thing to work on before I play again.
What changed.
When I’m out with my cousin Rollie and my best friend Andrew, the best part of the round is never my stats. It’s the game we’ve got going. Nobody wants to keep score on a napkin, and neither of them wears a Garmin.
Where it’s going.
YipLinks is now for the whole group. One golfer brings it, everyone joins from a link, and the board updates live. If you wear a Garmin, you get the deepest stats out there. If you don’t, you still get the game.

Buy me a Pro V.

YipLinks is free and built for fun. Every Pro V buys another hour of coding (and maybe a ball I won’t lose).

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Wear a Garmin? It goes deeper.

After the game, YipLinks reads the round your watch recorded and shows you where every stroke went.

  1. A Garmin watch on a golfer's wrist mid round, showing hole 12, a par 5, with 207, 199 and 191 yards to the green.

    Play with your Garmin

    Wear your watch and play like you always do. It marks where every shot was hit.

  2. A finger tapping 3 Wood in the Garmin watch's club list after a shot.

    Tag your clubs

    Tap the club on the watch after each shot. The more you tag, the sharper your numbers get.

  3. YipLinks syncing a round from Garmin Connect: round 1 of 1, Foxtail Golf Club North, Oct 1.

    Open YipLinks

    Your round comes over from Garmin on its own. No exports, no typing scores in.

  4. YipLinks Round Recap: a 91 at Mayacama titled Quick recoveries, with strokes gained, fairways, greens, up and downs and putts, and a note on where the round was won and lost.

    Read your recap

    Adjusted net score, where you gained and lost strokes, and the one thing to work on next.

Everything your watch recorded, put to work.

A recap that reads like a coach wrote it.

Your adjusted net score, the holes that cost you, and a focus card with the one thing to work on before you play again.

YipLinks Round Recap: a 91 at Mayacama titled Quick recoveries, with strokes gained, fairways, greens, up and downs and putts, and a note on where the round was won and lost.

Front, middle and back, from where you stand.

Live GPS yardages to the green, a club suggestion for the shot in front of you, and course packs you save for spots with no signal.

YipLinks Course tab on hole 4 at Mayacama: live yardages of 411, 419 and 424 to the front, middle and back of the green, with driver and 3 wood shot patterns drawn from the tee.

Walk any hole, shot by shot.

Every shot on the course map with its club and distance, so you can see exactly where a hole got away.

YipLinks Shot Map: hole 4 at Mayacama, a 417 yard par 5 on satellite imagery, with a 291 yard drive, a 105 yard pitching wedge and a 28 yard lob wedge drawn tee to green, then 2 putts.

Strokes gained against your target.

Pick a target handicap, scratch or the PGA Tour, then see where a round got away: tee shots, approach, short game or putting, each with a rolling five-round trend.

YipLinks Stats tab: strokes gained against a 12 handicap over the last 10 rounds, split into tee shots, approach, short game and putting.

See where every club actually goes.

Pick a club and every full swing you’ve hit with it lands on one map. Your miss, finally on paper.

YipLinks shot pattern for the 3 wood: 33 full swings averaging 240 yards, plotted around the target with the middle half and 80 percent shaded, and a club picker above.

What if your doubles were bogeys?

Follow your index round by round, see a handicap for each part of your game, and the potential index you would carry if the blowup holes went away.

YipLinks Stats: a 14.1 handicap index over 20 rounds, 2.1 to go to a target of 12, with its trend since May.

Your real yardages, not your best ones.

Each club’s typical range comes from the middle 80% of your full swings. So when it says PW 133 to 150, you can trust it.

YipLinks Clubs: each club's typical range and average from 402 full swings, for example driver 251 to 289 yards, with overlapping clubs flagged.

Fix the round Garmin got wrong.

Wrong club, a missed shot, a putt that never happened. Change any shot after the round and every stat updates with it.

YipLinks Edit Round: shots the watch left without a club, each with a best guess to accept or change.

Every best, at every course.

Your longest drive, lowest 18 and lowest 9, and your best score at each course you have played.

YipLinks Personal bests: a 346 yard longest drive, a lowest 18 of 84, a lowest 9 of 40, and the best score at each course played.

Garmin hides your shots.

Your watch collects every shot you hit. Garmin Golf keeps most of what they mean out of sight.

  • Mis-tag a 7 iron? Your driver now goes 160.

    Garmin Golf won’t let you fix a shot after the round, so a mis-tag lives in your averages forever. YipLinks lets you change any shot, and every stat follows.

  • The good stuff is four taps deep.

    Shot locations, club distances and trends are all in there somewhere. YipLinks opens on the round you just played and what it means.

  • Fairways 43%. Is that good? Compared to what?

    Percentages without context don’t tell you where the strokes went. Strokes gained against your target handicap does.

  • It tells you what happened. Never what to do about it.

    A scorecard is a receipt, not a lesson. Every YipLinks recap ends with one thing to work on.

YipLinks Round Recap: a 91 at Mayacama titled Quick recoveries, with strokes gained, fairways, greens, up and downs and putts, and a note on where the round was won and lost.
Garmin Golf's round screen: a scorecard of strokes per hole.
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Your watch knows more about your game than you do.

YipLinks fixes that.

Questions, answered.

What does YipLinks do?

YipLinks runs golf games for your group and gives Garmin golfers the stats behind every shot. Start a game, send the link, and everyone keeps score on their own phone with a live leaderboard. If you wear a Garmin golf watch, YipLinks also reads your rounds and turns them into a recap, strokes gained, real club yardages and the one thing to work on next.

Do my friends need a Garmin to play a game?

No. Games work for every golfer. Each player needs YipLinks on their iPhone and a free account. A Garmin only adds the stats side.

How do my friends join a game?

Share the game's link and they land right in it. Or they open Games, tap Join and type in the six-character game code.

Which games can we play?

Stroke Play, Skins, Nassau, Wolf, Best Ball, Stableford, Vegas, Sixes, Nines, Low Ball Low Total, Quota and Bingo Bango Bongo, for two to four players depending on the format. Handicap strokes are worked out for each player, and every format explains its rules before you tee off.

Is it for money?

No. Games in YipLinks are for points and bragging rights only. The app never handles money or bets.

Which Garmin watches work with YipLinks?

Any Garmin golf watch that saves your rounds to Garmin Golf with shot tracking. YipLinks brings the rounds over from your Garmin account on its own, so there is nothing to export.

How does YipLinks work out strokes gained?

Every shot is compared with what a golfer at your target handicap would expect from the same spot, from scratch to the PGA Tour. The difference shows where a round was won or lost: off the tee, on approach, around the green or with the putter.

Can I fix a shot my watch got wrong?

Yes. Change the club, add a missed shot or remove one that never happened, after the round, and every stat updates with it. Garmin Golf does not let you edit a shot once the round is saved.

Does YipLinks give yardages on the course?

Yes. The Course tab shows live GPS yardages to the front, middle and back of the green, suggests a club for the shot in front of you, and saves course packs for spots with no signal. Courses come from OpenStreetMap, so most courses work wherever you play.

How much does YipLinks cost?

YipLinks is free. It is built by one golfer for fun, and you can tip a Pro V if you like it.

Is YipLinks on iPhone and Android?

YipLinks is an iPhone app, free on the App Store. There is no Android version yet.

Is YipLinks made by Garmin?

No. YipLinks is an independent app and is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Garmin.

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