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
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.
Test pack is $49 for 50 credits. Then $49 per 200-credit Personal block, no subscription. Console: console.golfintelligence.com. Login with your email and the verification code. Personal is for your own game (golf apps built with Claude Code, Grok, Cursor, or ChatGPT); Starter $399/10k 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.
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api.golfintelligence.com/swagger/index.html$49 for 50 credits · console.golfintelligence.com · passwordless email + code
1. Search is freePOST /courses/searchCourseGroups · 0 credits
2. $49 for 50 creditsBuy 50 credits for $49. Credits added in the console after payment.
3. Full course = 3Scorecard + GPS in one flagship call
4. Personal or StarterPersonal $49 packs · Starter $399/10k 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 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, 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
Collected by laser scans, drone flights, airplane, and satellite — highest quality available by course. Ten people on staff map courses every day. 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.
20 yearsProprietary course data
Laser scan, drone, airplane, and satelliteHighest quality available by course
Ten people on staffMap courses every day
Questions teams ask
Credits, cache, and what this API is
How far do 50 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. The first 50 credits are $49 one time. Then Personal is $49 per 200-credit block, stackable, no subscription. 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. Personal 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. $49 for the first 50 credits, then $49 per 200-credit block, no subscription. 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?
Personal credits are one-time packs added in the console after payment. 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 data from laser scans, drone flights, airplane, and satellite. Ten people on staff map courses every day. First 50 credits $49. Then $49 per 200-credit Personal block, no subscription. 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. Test pack is $49 for 50 credits; search is free.
Next step
The data is live. The next app is yours.
Personal starts at $49 for 50 credits to download courses, green slope, and elevation. Then $49 per 200-credit block, no subscription. Console login is your email plus a verification code.
Buy the first 50 credits for $49. Credits are added in the console after payment. Starter is $399/month for 10,000 credits for apps.