Our trip outgrew the poster board.

Scoring it is a production

My friends have been taking the same golf trip for over a decade. Same course, ten to twelve guys. I've been along for the last five years. The whole thing is games. A practice round for whoever gets in early. The Bryce Closed, our stroke-play championship with a trophy on the line. Two teams trading head-to-head matches. And a nine-hole scramble where each beer is −1 stroke, per team, per hole.

Tracking it by hand is a production. Custom scorecards for the assigned matches. A master poster board for the head-to-heads, filled in only after every match finishes, because "live scoring" means texting the group chat. And when the trip ends, the board goes in the trash. Nobody's taking that thing home. A decade of golf, and the record of it fits in a garbage can.

So I built the scorekeeper our trip needed

Sunday Sticks is that whole system in one app: one scorecard for the group, the formats we actually play, and every side game in one running ledger. Type a house rule in plain English, like "each beer is −1 stroke," and it becomes live scoring logic. Live leaderboards replace the group-chat play-by-play, and when the last putt drops, everyone already knows where they stand.

The app never holds or moves money. Friends settle up outside it. Sunday Sticks just keeps the record straight so nobody has to.

And a ledger, so the history compounds

The other half of the reason: our group's history deserved better than the trash. Sunday Sticks keeps every round, every game, and every running total, so the history compounds year over year and the trip is remembered for more than who won.

Solo developer, first app

Sunday Sticks is my first app. I built it alone, for my own crew. The design goal was scoring simple enough for a tee box: scores, leaderboard, and money games on one surface, so the phone goes back in your pocket and the golf stays the point.