A network built the way golf already works.
Members have always been able to sign a guest in at their own club, at their club’s own guest rate. We added the introductions, and a fair way of keeping score.
Members only, and we check.
Every member of Hosted Rounds is a playing member of a golf club. When you apply, we take your WHS number and your home club, and we verify both by hand before you’re admitted. No club, no membership. That is why an iGolf handicap is not enough on its own: you cannot sign a guest in at a club you are not a member of.
It’s more thorough than a signup form, and that’s deliberate. Everyone you meet on Hosted Rounds is real, verified, and answerable to the same rules as you.
Known by your golf, not your name.
Your profile is a username. It leads with the things that actually matter to another golfer: your club, your handicap index, the rounds you’ve hosted and played, and how members have rated you as a host and as a guest. We know precisely who you are, because we verified you ourselves. Everyone else gets to know you the way golfers always have, and you give out your name and number when you want to.
MEMBER
Nobody talks to you without your say-so.
Found a member whose club you’d love to play, or a golfer you’d happily host? Send a contact request. Messaging opens only if they accept. From there it’s a conversation between golfers: dates, handicaps, walking or buggy. Once you’ve settled on a day, one of you proposes the round in that conversation and the other accepts. That is the step that puts it in both your diaries and sets the token aside.
Prefer some quiet? Pause your hosting whenever life demands it. Existing conversations carry on, new requests wait until you’re back.
The host plays. That’s the whole point.
This isn’t course access, and it isn’t a booking site. Your host signs you in, plays the round with you, and shows you the course the way only a member can. You pay your own green fee at the pro shop, the guest rate, in full, without being asked. Money never changes hands between golfers, and Hosted Rounds never touches it.
A host can bring more than one guest from the network into the same game where their club allows it, and earns a playing token for every guest they host. Each club sets its own limit, and we show it on the club’s page.
Host one. Play one.
The network runs on playing tokens. A playing token is simply one round as a member’s guest: spend one to play away, earn one back for every guest you host at your own club. You’re given a single token the day you join, so your first round is on us. After that, the golf you take is funded by the golf you give.
Nearly every round costs one token. The exception is the Top 100 GB&I courses, which cost two, and that is the only place the price changes. It is the same two tokens for everyone, on day one as on day five hundred: nothing here is unlocked by rank, and nothing can be bought.
IS FUNDED BY
THE GOLF YOU GIVE
Propose it, confirm it, rate it.
When a game is agreed, propose it in your conversation: a date, a club, done. The other person accepts, and you each confirm you’re on for it. The guest’s token is set aside at that moment, not taken, so a round that falls through costs nobody anything. After the day itself, either of you marks it played: the token moves to the host, and you rate each other. Ratings stay sealed until both are in, so they’re honest.
Propose the round
Both confirm
Play it, then rate it
