Foursome game
Saturday game, four guys, money on every hole. The whole point is no math at the 19th. Hey Caddy tracks the Nassau, the presses, the greenies, and who owes who — you tap Settle Up and pour another beer.
One device or four?
Either works. Two common shapes:
- One device, one scorer. One person keeps score for all four. The Glance and Scorecard views have a chip row at the top — tap a player’s name, log their score, auto-advance to the next player. Four taps per hole, fifteen seconds.
- Four devices, one each. The round creator builds it, then taps Share to send a deep link. Each player taps the link → app opens to the round → picks their name → starts scoring on their own phone. The phones sync via the server every ~10 seconds.
Setting up the bet
The most common Saturday game shape — a 2v2 Nassau with Hi-Lo dot scoring + auto-press:
- Tap Bets tab → + top right → Nassau.
- Pick the two teams (drag players onto Team 1 / Team 2).
- Segments: Front 9, Back 9, Overall 18 — defaults are right for a normal Nassau.
- Unit value:
$10(or whatever your stake is). - Scoring: Hi-Lo. (Match-play and stroke-aggregate also supported — see Bets.)
- Press mode: auto at 2 down. (Or manual-only.)
- Save. The bet starts tracking from hole 1.
Each hole has 2 dots: low ball (best-net of each team) and high ball (second-best-net). The team that wins both dots sweeps the hole. 1-1 split = halved, no payout. Per-pot carryover when only the low or high is tied (cap configurable). It’s the most common money-game format in Northern California — and Victor’s normal Saturday shape.
Pressing during the round
Voice (recommended)
Mid-round, when your team falls behind, just say it:
“Hey Caddy, team B is pressing the front and the overall.”
That fires both presses (front 9 + overall 18) starting from the current hole. The ledger updates instantly. Multi-segment presses, single-segment, “aloha press” (hole 18 doubled stake) — all parse cleanly. See Voice for the full phrase library.
Auto-press
If you turned on auto at 2 down, every time the losing side hits 2-down on a segment, an auto-press fires once and re-arms only when the segment goes back through the threshold. Auto and manual presses both stack — they’re tracked independently in the ledger.
Aloha press
“Hey Caddy, aloha press.”
Shorthand for “press the overall on the last hole at double stake.” If it’s already past hole 17 the bet engine accepts it; if it’s earlier, it warns you and asks if you meant a regular press.
Side games
- Greenies auto-prompt on every par 3 score entry. Tap closest-to-pin, it’s in. (Skip if no one was on.)
- Sandies / polies / barkies / snake — say it after the hole: “Got a sandie” / “Polie on 14”. Junk claim attaches to the active Junk bet.
- Skins, Wolf, Stableford — full engine support, just create a separate bet alongside the Nassau.
Settling at the 19th
Tap Bets → Settle Up. You see the ledger across every active bet on the round (Nassau, presses, greenies, anything else) collapsed into a single “who pays who, how much.” Each row has a Venmo deep link — tap it, it opens Venmo pre-filled, you confirm.
Edge cases the engine handles correctly without you thinking about them:
- Halved segment — no payout. (Common gotcha in Nassau Hi-Lo when each team gets one dot.)
- Open press — when a press is created late and the segment ends in fewer holes than expected, it settles based on remaining holes only.
- Per-pot carryover — if low ball ties on a hole but high ball is decided, only the low pot carries forward.
- Aloha doubling — settled at 2× the unit value cleanly.
Full edge-case math is documented in Settling up.