Practical support for ABS Golf Performance.

Playing handicap is calculated from your personal handicap, tee rating, slope, par, and the app’s current round setup rules. It can differ from your handicap because each tee has its own difficulty.

Many courses publish separate CR and slope values by rating category. Your Settings choice controls which rating category is used when the app calculates course and playing handicap.

You can adjust selected round metadata and scorecard values, but submitted rounds keep the entry mode chosen when the round was started.

A benchmark course is a course you expect to use for repeatable performance tracking. Add the course, tees, ratings, and stroke indexes before using it for round setup.

Courses and rounds use private CloudKit records when iCloud is enabled. Confirmed stroke, pin, and course-point data can sync through your private iCloud account. Settings use iCloud key-value storage. Raw Round Trail points do not sync. If iCloud is unavailable, the app still stores data locally on the device.

The free app focuses on courses, rounds, scorecards, reports, and performance summaries. Map Edition, GPS shot positions, Round Trail, manual map placement, reusable course points, and Club Distances are part of the upcoming Premium feature set. Scan/OCR and advanced automated course lookup remain future directions.

Map Edition is a Premium, map-first companion to Timeline for stroke-by-stroke rounds. You can switch between the two views to review or correct strokes, pins, tees, and useful course points. The map attempts to frame the current hole and estimate its playing direction.

Use GPS when you are standing at the ball, or place the map crosshair at an approximate position and confirm it. Manual map placement is useful for corrections and for rounds entered later.

Select the stroke in Timeline or Map Edition. You can move it to the map crosshair, edit its available details, or delete it with the stroke controls. Review the position before confirming a change.

Course points are reusable private reference positions for a course, such as Green Front, Green Middle, Green Back, landing zones, and tees. They can be used in future rounds on the same course. They are not added to a shared community course database.

Choose the relevant course-point type, place the map crosshair at the intended position, and confirm it. For tee points, choose from the tees available for the course. All manually placed points are approximate.

Hide PoI hides course points on the map for the current round. It does not delete them, and they remain available for future rounds on the same course.

No. Satellite imagery provides visual context only. The app does not automatically identify a lie, green, fairway, or other course feature from the imagery.

At Tee saves the start position on an empty hole. At My Ball saves the ball position before the next stroke so the app can calculate the previous stroke’s distance. At Pin saves the finishing position and can be used to calculate the final stroke’s distance. Each position is confirmed by you.

Round Trail is an optional, temporary location trail that you actively start to help with manual stroke placement. It does not create or confirm ball positions automatically and stops no later than five hours after it starts.

Raw Round Trail points are stored only on your device. They are not included in iCloud sync and are deleted automatically after seven days.

A Club Distance is the direct distance between two consecutive confirmed positions. At My Ball normally completes the distance for the previous stroke, while At Pin can complete the final stroke on the hole. Club Distances can appear in round and performance reports.

A distance needs consecutive confirmed positions. Relief, a drop zone, a replayed stroke, a lost ball, out of bounds, or an unplayable ball interrupts the distance chain. A ball played as it lies in a penalty area can continue the chain and does not automatically add a penalty stroke.

No. Club Distance is the direct played distance between two registered positions. It does not distinguish carry from roll and is not an official measurement.

Yes. GPS accuracy varies with the device, surroundings, signal conditions, and the position selected on the map. Positions and calculated distances are approximate guidance, not exact measurements or navigation information.

Confirmed stroke, pin, and course-point data is stored locally and can sync through your private iCloud account when available. Raw Round Trail points stay only on the device and never sync through iCloud. Nothing is uploaded to an ABS Golf-operated shared course database.

Yes. In Map Edition, place the crosshair at the intended location and confirm the position. Manual placement is approximate and should be reviewed before you confirm it.

Yes. Map Edition, GPS shot positions, At Tee, At My Ball, At Pin, Round Trail, manual map placement, reusable course points, Club Distances, and their report output are included in the upcoming Premium feature set.

They are advisory checks that highlight scorecard values you may want to review. They do not block submission of a round.

Course import requires valid Course Rating and Slope data and a supported import format version. Review the imported tees and hole data before using the course for a round.

Scoring by Outcome is a descriptive view of gross scoring relative to par. It is not a Target HCP benchmark and does not establish that a tracked factor caused a scoring result.

Use Support and report issues in Settings, or use TestFlight feedback with a screenshot. Include the course, tee, round state, and what you expected to happen.