18BIRDIES BLOG

You're at a beautiful new course that you've never played before with your golf crew. You step up to the tee, freeze, and wonder, “How should I hit this?" Tee Shot Planner is here to help!

With the PGA Memes Invitational underway, we thought we would share the Top 10 most played destination courses from all over the world. Whether you’re traveling for work and looking for courses to take clients or traveling for pleasure and looking to hit the links, our 18Birdies users have played…

Has your child expressed an interest in golf? Is she getting to an age where you can start bringing her to the golf course? Has he started playing with your clubs outside on the grass? Putting game strong on the mini golf course? Sounds like it might be time to get your kids their own clubs!

Who doesn’t love a little side game action when you’re playing a round of golf with friends? If you’ve never played a side game before – then you’re missing out. They’re called “side games” and in the 18Birdies app, we make it easier for you to keep track and play those games while scoring and…

Have you ever hit the perfect shot only to see your ball land 15 yards short of the green? We have too, and in many cases coming up short was due to environmental conditions we didn’t factor into the shot’s ‘Plays Like’ distance. So, we looked into how the best caddies in the world determine how…

We've been so hyped about our latest release (our new, sleek and simple scoring experience) – and are dying to hear what you think about it. So we're kicking off our #ScoringMadeSimple Twitter campaign today to celebrate, and we're inviting you to join the fun.

If you’re looking forward to playing golf this weekend using the app, there’s something new in the app that I’m really excited about that you’ll want to check out ahead of time – we’ve made some pretty big changes to a core piece of the app, and I think you’re going to really like it.

Golf always seems like such a good idea, doesn’t it? Alone time on a quiet course or hanging out with friends, surrounded by nature, and the occasional satisfaction of making such sweet contact with the ball that you can hardly feel it, but can only marvel at the sight of the ball doing exactly…

We noticed something pretty cool the other day: You awesome people have rated over one million courses in the app! We were thrilled to find such a goldmine of data that we decided to start a new series of lists (because who doesn't love lists) to share all of these great stats around the best and…

Winter is here, but that doesn't mean your golf season has to come to end. 18Birdies is bringing our golfers back on the short stuff to swing some sticks, and whack some balls at drool-worthy courses via our DreamGames Sweepstakes! We’ve given away some monumental grand prize golf trips in the…

Preview: The Tour Junkies dish out the goods for The OHL Classic at Mayakoba El Cameleon and what it’s going to take to build the right DraftKings lineups. David and Pat come together to give their lock, value plays, sleeper, and player to avoid in DFS formats. Key Stats: Ownership / DraftKings…

If you live in a cold climate, the freezing temperatures and snow drifts of winter can make it challenging to get outside and practice your golf swing. And as every golfer knows, if you don’t use it - you lose it. However, the long offseason doesn’t have to put your game on ice. We have some…

We’ve been *itching* to share this one! 😍 Got ourselves one heckuvan addition to our list of Tour players working with the #NavigatorAid. Ladies and gents, Mr. Beau Hossler! @the_beau_show_ 👏🏻👏🏻 #PGATour #liveunderpar #theseguysaregood #witb

Bob McCoy is a golf fanatic, and he’s probably unlike any golfer you’ve ever known. Last week the 79-year old McCoy played the New and Eden courses at Hong Kong Golf Club and completed a mind-boggling odyssey that began almost 40 years ago. McCoy has played every course that’s ever been in Golf…

The gear effect: many have heard of it, but few actually understand what it is. Fewer still realize that not understanding the gear effect can hamper their efforts to improve their golf game. https://youtu.be/FdH0JQL5E-U Whether we hit a good shot or a bad one, we assume we know what happened.…