FORE
Hold it like a club, read the wind
One hand, exactly the way you already hold your phone. Then turn your wrist: screen facing where you are aiming, camera end at the ground. The dial in the corner tells you how many yards the wind will push it.
iPhone · Island green · Real swing
Your phone is the club
Hold your iPhone like a golf club. Wait for the vibration. Swing. FORE reads the real motion of your arm and flies the ball across the water at an island green — then puts you on the board against everyone else in the Club.
- Hole
- Par 3
- Carry
- 153 yd
- Challenges
- 7 a week
- Price
- Free
No club. Just the phone.
How to play
Swing your phone like a golf club
One hand, the way you already hold it. Tap SWING, lower the phone into your stance, and wait for the buzz. Then swing whenever you like.
Tap SWING, then take your stance
Nothing starts while you are still looking at the screen. Lower the phone and the card flips from TAKE YOUR STANCE to HOLD IT THERE. Keep still until it vibrates.
Swing when you are ready
The SWING ring means you are live. Take it back and through, like a golf swing — no rush, no timer. Then watch it fly, and find out what your wrist did.
The real thing: one hand, hold it there, feel the buzz, swing.
The swing
Long, short, right, left
No aim stick, no power bar, no menu of shots. Swing faster or slower to move it long or short. Twist your wrist at contact to curve it right or left. That is the whole game.
Normal speed
- Gentle
- 80 yd
- The flag
- 153 yd
- Flat out
- 220 yd
- Curve
- ±6°
Curve the ball
The screen is the club face
At contact, wherever the screen faces is where the ball goes. Keep it square and it flies straight. Twist your wrist so it faces right and the ball curves right. Twist it left and it curves left.
New The Club
A new challenge every day. A champion every week.
Pick a name and a ball colour and you are in. Every day the Club plays the island under a different rule, with the same wind for every member. One card a day, every shot counts, and the board closes at midnight.
- 1card a day
- 7challenges a week
- 25points for a win
- ×2on Wednesday
The week, Thursday to Wednesday
Seven days, seven ways to score the same hole.
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Thu
Average Joe
Three shots. Your average distance to the pin is the score.
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Fri
Weakest Link
Three shots. Only your worst ball counts.
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Sat
Best of Three
Three shots. Only your closest ball counts.
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Sun
One Shot Sunday
One shot. Closest to the pin wins.
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Mon
Mystery Monday
Three shots. One counts, drawn at random once your card is in.
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Tue
Wind Tunnel
Three shots in a gale that turns every shot. Average counts.
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Wed ×2
Tight Group
Final round, double points. The tightest group of three wins.
Points each day
- 1st25
- 2nd18
- 3rd15
- 4th12
- 5th10
- 6th8
- 7th6
- 8th4
- 9th3
- 10th2
- Played1
Most points by Wednesday midnight wins the week. Ties go to more daily wins, then the best single finish.
Win the week, wear the crown
The champion gets a trophy screen, a crown by their name on every board the following week, and a cup in their cabinet. Everyone else gets the podium and the final table.
Find out how you finished
Open FORE on a new day and it tells you where you finished yesterday. On a new week, where you finished the week. A reminder at nine, if you want one.
A record that keeps
Weekly finishes on a chart, podiums and wins in your trophy cabinet, your best Club ball and your strongest challenge — all on your member page.
The Island · Par 3 · 153 yards
One hole. All water.
A green on top of a cliff, ringed by water, with a river running through the valley below. The wind changes every shot, and the flag leans into it.
- New wind every shot — set it from calm to high in the menu
- Green, fringe, fairway, rough and water, judged where the ball stops
- Realistic bounce and roll, and a shot tracer if you want one
- Haptics for the strike, the splash, and the rattle into the cup
FORE in action
Every shot, start to finish
Hole in one
Some of them go in
If you are lucky and good enough, you can hole out in one. On One Shot Sunday that posts 0.0 yards — and nobody can beat it.
Go and try one
On the App Store.
What is in it
Built to be picked up cold
Five drills, then the island
The first time you open it: how to swing, how to control the distance, and how to shape it left and right. Replay any lesson from the menu.
A dial you actually have to read
Strength in yards, direction on the needle, and a cloth flag that leans the same way. New every shot. Calm, low, medium or high.
See your miss
A map of where your last 10, 50 or every ball finished, averages for carry, power and face, and a plain tip on what your misses have in common.
Haptics to guide you
A buzz when you are set, then the strike, the bounce, the splash and the rattle into the cup all feel different in your hand.
Hold on to the phone.
Do not swing hard. A gentle swing is genuinely enough — the game is calibrated for a smooth, one-handed pass, and swinging out of your shoes does not make the ball go further than 220 yards.
Keep hold of it, or use a wrist strap if you have one. Give yourself room, away from people, glass and televisions.
Questions
Good to know
What is FORE?
An iPhone golf game you play by physically swinging your phone like a club. There is one hole — a par 3 island green, 153 yards across water — and the Club, a daily challenge with a weekly leaderboard.
What is the Club?
A free competition on the island. Each day has its own rule — average, worst ball, best ball, one shot, a mystery ball, a gale, and a tight group to finish — and everybody plays it with the same wind. One card a day.
The top ten each day earn points, 25 for first down to 2 for tenth. Anyone else who plays gets one. Wednesday counts double. The week runs Thursday to Wednesday, and the days close at midnight Central European time.
Do I need an account for the Club?
No. Pick a name and a ball colour — no email, no password, no Apple ID. Your membership is kept on the phone, so a reinstall keeps it.
You can leave in the app at any time: tap your name, then Leave the Club. Your name, cards and history are deleted straight away. The rest is on the privacy page.
Do I have to play every day?
No. Play the days you like. A day you miss scores nothing, so playing more days helps — but a great Sunday can still move you up the week.
How is it different from other golf games?
Most golf games are thumbs on glass — drag a target, stop a power bar. FORE has neither. You stand up and swing, and the sensors read what your arm actually did. It is closer to standing in the garden with a 7-iron than to a simulator.
Do I aim?
No — and that is deliberate. You shape the ball with your wrist instead. There is no aim stick, no power meter and no shot-shape menu anywhere in the game.
What happens the first time I open it?
A flyover of the hole, then a short range of five drills: how to swing, how to control the distance, and how to shape it left and right. After that the island is yours and the wind is live.
You can replay the range, or any single lesson, from the menu.
Is it free?
FORE is free to download, and so is the Club. There is nothing to buy in the app.
Motion sensors read your swing on the phone, and your shot history stays there.
Which devices?
iPhone only, portrait, iOS 15 or later. Not iPad, not Android, not Mac — you need a device you are willing to hold like a club.
Is this a launch monitor?
No. It is a game, and the numbers are tuned to be fun and readable rather than to measure your real club head speed. Closer to Wii Sports golf than to a practice aid.
Is it safe to swing a phone?
With a gentle swing and a grip on it, yes. Do not swing hard, use a wrist strap if you have one, and give yourself room away from people, glass and televisions.
Who made it?
Richard Deetlefs, as an individual. Questions, bugs and good shots: richard.m.deetlefs@gmail.com.
Just swing it
On the App Store. One hole, a new challenge every day, and a week to win.