Wedge and the GHIN app

This is not an either-or choice. The GHIN app is run by the United States Golf Association, and it is the official record of your Handicap Index. Wedge does not issue a Handicap Index and does not replace your GHIN membership. It links to your GHIN account, reads your Index from it and posts the rounds you score in Wedge back into it.

• Use the GHIN app to hold your official Handicap Index, post any round you play, look at your scoring record and use the USGA's own GPS and stats.
• Add Wedge if your group plays for money or runs a trip: Nassau with automatic presses, who owes whom worked out when each match ends, multi-day events with a Ryder Cup, and a feed of your friends' full scorecards. Each Wedge round can go to GHIN when you finish, so you do not enter it twice.

• It is the official record. Your Handicap Index is calculated by the USGA's Golf Handicap Information Network, and the GHIN app is the USGA's own app for it. Wedge reads from and posts to that record; it does not keep a separate official number.
• Any round, from anywhere. You can post a round in GHIN whether you scored it on paper, in another app or in Wedge. It accepts total scores as well as hole-by-hole scores.
• A way in for new golfers. The GHIN app offers a free trial: post 3 scores to get an Estimated Handicap Range, then keep posting for 30 days. To keep a Handicap Index after that, you join an Allied Golf Association.
• Android. The GHIN app is on Google Play as well as the App Store. Wedge has no Android app.
• USGA features. Its App Store listing describes handicap matches, Challenges leaderboards at select courses, a redesigned stats section and, with Enhanced GPS, green maps and front and back yardages.

• Money games. Wedge scores Stroke Play, Match Play and Nassau, gross or net, with presses any player can add and automatic presses at the margin you choose. Course handicaps come from the Index it imports from GHIN. See how a Nassau works.
• Settling up. Wedge works out who owes whom when the match ends, netting every bet and press into one amount per pair of players.
• Golf trips. A Wedge tournament runs over several days with a buy-in, two teams, a Ryder Cup across singles, four-ball and alternate shot, a Classic stroke-play leaderboard and side games such as Skins, Stableford and Quota.
• Your group. Friends follow each other's full hole-by-hole scorecards and live match results in a feed, with likes and comments. Players without the app can be added to a match as guests.
• Shot tracking without sensors. Tap the GPS course map where each shot landed, and fairways, greens and putts fill in from it.

1. Keep your GHIN membership through your club or Allied Golf Association. Wedge needs an existing GHIN account to link.
2. In Wedge, link your GHIN account once. Wedge imports your Handicap Index and posting history.
3. Play your round in Wedge. Each player's course handicap for the match is worked out from their Index and the tees you play (see the course handicap calculator).
4. When the round ends, post it to GHIN from Wedge. The score goes in hole by hole, so the usual hole-by-hole adjustments apply.
5. Open the GHIN app whenever you want your official record, or to post a round you did not play in Wedge. Your Index in Wedge syncs from GHIN.

The GHIN app itself is free. A Handicap Index comes with membership through an Allied Golf Association, and the fee varies by association. Enhanced GPS is an optional upgrade listed at $49.99 on the US App Store.

Wedge is free to download. Playing rounds, money games, matches and tournaments needs Wedge Pass at $29.99 a year, and new subscribers get a 3-month free trial. History, stats and the feed stay available without a pass. Wedge Pass does not include GHIN membership, so a golfer who wants both pays for both.

Disclosure: Wedge Golf makes Wedge. The facts about the GHIN app on this page come from its App Store and Google Play listings and from USGA announcements, checked in October 2026 and listed under Sources. GHIN and Handicap Index are trademarks of the United States Golf Association. Wedge Golf is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USGA.