Every dollar you win or owe traces back to a hole.
The Book runs the games, keeps the score, and does the math. It never touches the money — you settle on your own rails, and the Book keeps the receipt. Here's the whole flow, tee to payout.
Get in
An officer sends you an invite code
No signup form, no public join link. Someone already in the Book vouches for you. That's the whole membership model — it's what keeps this a private club instead of an open betting site.
Set your handicap and your payment handles
Enter your index once. Add your Venmo, CashApp, or Zelle handle — just the handle, not a linked account. The Book uses it to build a payment link when you owe or are owed; it never holds a cent of it.
A round opens
Someone starts the round and picks the games
Skins, Nassau with presses, match play, medal play, Wolf, Vegas, Banker, Stableford, Quota — stack as many as the group wants on one card. Add junk: greenies, sandies, barkies, arnies, the snake. Stakes and rules are set before the first tee shot and logged.
Scores stream in, live
Scorers post hole-by-hole from the course; every card on the Book updates in real time — leaderboard, skins carry, match status, junk. Until Unknown Golfer hands us a scoring feed, rounds run on the Book's own simulator or member-entered scores. Same math, same games, same ledger — nothing about how a round is bet depends on where the score came from.
Bet from anywhere
Anyone can open a live round and post an offer
Not on the course? Doesn't matter. Open any live round and put up a stake on something the scoring feed can settle — "DK takes the back nine net," "the group breaks 3 birdies after 12." Another member takes the other side. The Book never sets the terms; two members do.
It resolves itself
No judgment calls, no "who won" arguments. Every side bet resolves mechanically off the same event log the scorecard is built from. If the scoring feed can't settle it cleanly, the offer voids and that's logged too.
The sheet
Everything nets down to the fewest payments
Skins, Nassau, side bets, junk — all of it lands in one settlement sheet per round. The Book nets every player's balance across every game first, then works out the minimum number of transfers to clear it. You're not paying five people five times; you're paying the sheet.
Every dollar shows its work
Tap any line and it opens: the holes, the strokes, the carryovers, the presses that produced that number. Nothing is a black box. If you owe $23, the Book can show you exactly which three holes made it $23.
Pay on your own rails
The sheet hands you a Venmo or CashApp link pre-filled with the amount, or Zelle instructions to send manually. You pay outside the Book, then mark it paid. The person owed confirms received. Two taps, two members, done.
Karani chases what's open
Karani is the clerk who runs the desk. Debts sitting unconfirmed at 24 hours get a nudge; at 48 hours, a second one. Karani never touches a dollar — the reminder is the whole job. What doesn't clear stays visible as aging, not swept under anything.
The season book
Every settled round adds to a running member ledger for the season — who's up, who's down, across every round played. Pending debts stay pending. Confirmed is confirmed. Nothing gets called "missing" unless it actually is. That running number is also the community's scoreboard: season standings, pool tracking for treasurer-run kitties, and the aggregate volume that shows what this group actually plays for. More on that on the About page.