Golf course data
Facility names, addresses, GPS, weather / wind rose, multi-tee scorecards, and alternate IDs including USGA. 27- and 36-hole clubs are one course group with multiple courses.
Live public API
Golf Intelligence API
The course data behind category leaders and partner apps — including Garmin, 18Birdies, The Grint, GolfShot, and SwingU. Powered by StrackaGolf data.
The trial is 50 free test credits. Console: console.golfintelligence.com. Login with your email and the verification code. Whenever you want a paid plan, Starter is $399/month for 10,000 credits.
Search is free. A full course (scorecard + GPS) is 3 credits. Green slope, elevation, and live lie elevation are one call each. Ship a rangefinder, caddie, or sim app without building a course database.
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api.golfintelligence.com/swagger/index.html50 free test credits · console.golfintelligence.com · passwordless email + code
1. Search is freePOST /courses/searchCourseGroups · 0 credits
2. 50 test creditsNo card. Email + verification code.
3. Full course = 3Scorecard + GPS in one flagship call
4. Starter $39910,000 credits / month — lowest paid tier
7 live endpointsSearch, scorecard, GPS, full detail, slope, elevation, geohash
0–3 creditsSearch is free. Full course detail is 3 credits.
99.9% uptimeBuilt for on-course mobile and wearable apps
Daily updatesCourse updates around the world since 2007
What you get
The same data the category leaders ship
Powered by StrackaGolf data. Category leaders already run on Golf Intelligence through direct feeds. You get the same course, GPS, and green layers through a public API.
GPS layers
Tee boxes, fairways, bunkers, penalty areas, hole outlines, and green shapes — the spatial stack for rangefinders and strokes gained.
3D greens + lie
Slope and elevation renders (900×1620) plus XYZ. Lie elevation (uphill / downhill / sidehill) is live on the geohash endpoint.
Scorecards
Hole-by-hole par, yardage, and handicap allocation across tee sets. This API returns course scorecards, not a player-history feed.
Also on the platform
Private-label GPS & shot tracking
No development team? We can ship a branded iOS / Android GPS and shot-tracking app — your brand, our data, no sensors. Talk to us. This is not a second storefront.
- Simulators, VR / AR, and caddie apps
- White-label GPS and shot-sharing (shot logging, no sensor)
- Green maps ready for your putting UI
Coming soon
On the product roadmap
Not in the public Swagger spec yet. Lie elevation is already live (geohash). We do not claim satellite imagery.
- 2D hi-res aerial imagery — drone / airplane course layouts inside your UI
- Predictive putt path — break and aim assistance
Industry partners
The same data the category leaders ship
Category leaders and partner apps — including Garmin, 18Birdies, The Grint, GolfShot, and SwingU — run on Golf Intelligence through direct data feeds — not the public console API. You get the same course, GPS, and green layers. Powered by StrackaGolf data.
Garmin
Questions teams ask
Credits, cache, and what this API is
How far do 50 free credits go?
Course search is free. Full course detail (scorecard + GPS) is 3 credits. Green slope and elevation images are 1 credit each. Fifty credits go fast if you hydrate a lot of courses — that is why Starter is the usual next step at $399/month for 10,000 credits.
Can I cache a course so I do not pay again?
Yes. Cache a course (scorecard + GPS + green image files) up to one year for that user. Credits are per golfer, not per course. Another user of the same course is another 3 credits. Green maps expire daily if you re-fetch them.
Is GPS extra on top of the scorecard?
No. GPS alone is 2 credits. Full course detail is 3 credits and includes scorecard + GPS. You do not pay 1 + 2 if you use the flagship detail call.
How do 27- and 36-hole clubs work?
A course group is the facility. Multiple nines live as courses[] inside one publicId. Search once, then compose the specific 18 (or 27) the golfer is playing in your UI. We do not flatten it.
Do you have global lie elevation?
Do not assume that. US and UK are strongest. Send course names and we will check. Lie elevation is live on the geohash endpoint — it is not coming soon — but coverage is not a global promise.
Is this player rankings or a scoreboard?
No. This API is course / GPS / greens. It is not player rankings, not a scoreboard, and not a player-history feed.
Can we print yardage books or pin sheets?
No printed yardage books or pin sheets. Digital in-app use is fine. Data partners cannot resell the data outside their consumer app.
Do unused credits stay available?
Credits stay available while the subscription is active. If you stop paying and suspend the service, you lose access to all remaining credits and the token suspends.
What about a white-label GPS app?
We can ship a branded iOS / Android GPS and shot-tracking app — your brand, our data, no sensors. That is a conversation with us, not a second product storefront.
Next step
The data is live. The next app is yours.
Start with a free test account — 50 credits to download courses, green slope, and elevation. No card. Console login is your email plus a verification code.
Whenever you want a paid plan, Starter is $399/month for 10,000 credits — the lowest paid tier. Email us and we will send the invoice.