The Disco.Golf App

Runs the clock

Start it on the tee, stop it when the last putt drops. It survives your pocket, a locked screen, and the app being closed entirely, because the time is kept as a timestamp rather than a ticking counter. Come back and it is still running.

Two touches, if you are in a hurry

Tap start on the first tee. Play the whole round with the phone in your pocket. Tap finish when the last putt drops. Every hole goes in at par, and you add your birdies and bogeys on the scorecard afterwards, sitting down. Two touches during play, and the clock is the only thing that had to happen live.

Or work somewhere in between: every hole sits along the bottom of the screen the whole round, so you can walk five holes untouched, tap the sixth to fix it, and carry on.

It asks how long you expect to take

Once, before you start, prefilled and editable. You know the course and your own legs better than any app does, so that is what the projection runs on until your pace on the day takes over. Play the same course again and it fills in your own average, and gets sharper every round.

Every hole starts at par

The app does not count your throws. Every hole starts on par, and you change only the ones that were not, as you go or after the round, so a clean hole costs zero taps. Par is set per hole, so a course with par fours is no problem, and it remembers each course after the first time.

Measures the distance you walked

Records your GPS track as you play and works out the miles, which goes into your record claim as proof of the round alongside the clock.

Shows what you are on pace to finish

Not your score so far, the number you are actually heading for. It uses the pace of the holes already behind you, so it tightens with every hole and lands on the truth at the last putt. If you enter holes as you go, it drops one the instant you enter a birdie and climbs one on a bogey.

It learns your course

The first round anywhere starts from a sensible guess. After that it uses your own pace on that course, so the estimate is close from the first tee and gets sharper every time you play there. The app knows your rhythm at your home course better than it knows anyone else's.

Finds the course you are standing on

Tap once and it looks up the disc golf course around you, filling in the name, the hole count, the par and the town. Courses you have played before are recognised instantly, with no signal needed.

Files the claim for you

Finish a round and it can send the whole thing to the record book: course, layout, throws, time, the combined number, the GPS track. No form to retype. Or keep it to yourself, which is what most rounds are for.

Keeps every round, claimed or not

A scorecard for each one, a personal best marker, and a scorecard image you can save to your photos or post. Fix a throw you tapped wrong at the time. The clock is the one thing you can never edit.

Works with no signal

Most courses have none. Once it is on your home screen it loads and runs a complete round without a bar of coverage, and sends the claim when you are back in range.