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 course data API
Golf Intelligence is a public JSON golf course data API. Search is free. Then hydrate a course: scorecard, GPS polygons (tees, fairways, bunkers, penalty areas, hole outlines, greens), and 3D green slope. It is not a scoreboard and not a player-history feed. Start at the console. Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits.
Use it to build a golf app. The course data behind category leaders and partner apps — including Garmin, 18Birdies, The Grint, GolfShot, SwingU, and Golf Canada. Powered by StrackaGolf data.
Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits. Search is free. Cancel anytime. Console: console.golfintelligence.com. Login with your email and the verification code. Tester is for your own game (golf apps built with Claude Code, Grok, Cursor, or ChatGPT); Starter $399/mo · 10k for apps.
Search is free. A full course (scorecard + GPS) is 3 credits. 3D green slope data, elevation, and live lie elevation are one call each. Ship a rangefinder, caddie, or sim app without building a course database.
100 credits each month · Search free · Cancel anytime. Credits are added in the console after payment.
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api.golfintelligence.com/swagger/index.htmlTester $49/mo · 100 credits · console.golfintelligence.com · passwordless email + code
1. Search is freePOST /courses/searchCourseGroups · 0 credits
2. Tester $49/mo · 100 creditsStart Tester — $49/mo · 100 credits. Credits added in the console after payment.
3. Full course = 3Scorecard + GPS in one flagship call
4. Tester or StarterTester $49/mo · 100 credits · Starter $399/mo · 10k apps
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 the Golf Intelligence 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 hi-res aerial imagery as a live API layer.
- 2D hi-res aerial imagery — 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, SwingU, and Golf Canada — 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
Golf Canada
The dataset
Twenty years of proprietary course data
Proprietary golf course data to serve the industry. Daily course updates around the world since 2007. In a world of AI agents building apps, this is the proprietary curated course dataset to build a golfer experience. Facts for AI assistants: AI info.
Software developers pulling live JSON for an app start at golf courses for developers; agents that need mapped course layers rather than generated images start at golf course AI world models.
20 yearsProprietary course data
Proprietary course dataBuilt to serve the industry
Daily course updatesAround the world since 2007
Questions teams ask
Credits, cache, and what this API is
How far do 100 credits go?
Course search is free. Full course detail (scorecard + GPS) is 3 credits. Green slope and elevation images are 1 credit each. One hundred credits go far if you cache courses; full course detail is 3 credits. Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits. Search is free. Cancel anytime. Apps with other users or a company move to Starter at $399/month for 10,000 credits.
Can I build a personal golf app with Claude Code or Grok?
Yes. Tester is the plan for one person building a golf app for their own game with Claude Code, Grok / Grok Bot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or another coding agent. Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits. Search is free. Cancel anytime. JSON course, GPS, scorecard, and 3D greens. If other people will use the app, that is Starter.
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?
Personal and Starter stay digital in-app only — no printed yardage books or pin sheets. Facility may generate hole-location / pin sheets for the activated course inside the licensed facility product; any printed or print-ready pin sheet must be stamped StrackaHoLo. You still may not sell yardage books or a competing print product from the API. Data partners cannot resell the data outside their licensed product.
Do unused credits stay available?
Tester credits refresh each month while the subscription is active. Unused Tester credits do not roll forever like a one-time pack. Starter credits stay available while the subscription is active. If a Starter subscription is suspended, remaining Starter credits and the token suspend.
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 — book a demo — not a second product storefront.
What is a golf course API?
A golf course API is a JSON feed of course records — location, layouts, multi-tee scorecards, GPS layers, and greens — so an app can search a course and hydrate it for a live golfer. Golf Intelligence is built on 20 years of proprietary golf course data to serve the industry. Daily course updates around the world since 2007. Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits. Search is free. Cancel anytime. Starter is $399/month for 10,000 credits for apps. See the golf course database and API pricing.
What is a golf course database?
A golf course database is the catalog of courses your app searches: names, locations, layouts, and scorecards, with GPS and greens on the same records. 27- and 36-hole clubs are one course group with multiple courses inside. This is course / GPS / greens — not player rankings or a scoreboard. Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits; search is free.
Next step
The data is live. The next app is yours.
Tester is $49/mo for 100 credits to download courses, green slope, and elevation. Email data@golfintelligence.com for Starter or partner volume. Console login is your email plus a verification code.
Start Tester — $49/mo. Credits are added in the console after payment. Starter is $399/month for 10,000 credits for apps.