The golfer guide

1 Open guulfai.com

Type your email and first name, tap Continue, and you're in — no password to invent. Signing in means your bookings and stats follow you to any phone. In a hurry? You can look around first and sign in later.

The front page. Email, name, Continue — that's the whole sign-up.

2 Tap “Find your course”

Home has three big buttons. Find your course searches almost every course in Canada and the US — pick yours and it loads with real hole maps. If you're a member somewhere, claiming your home course there means your member rate applies by itself when you book.

Home. Three buttons, no maze.

3 Tap “Book” and pick your time

Pick a day at the top — each one shows the weather. Green Book buttons are open times; the dots show how many spots are left. A full slot offers the waitlist instead: one tap, and the app pings you if a spot frees up.

Days with weather, times with open spots.

4 Say who's playing, tap “Confirm booking”

Your name is already there if you signed in. Add friends with + Add player, pick 9 or 18, add carts if you want them. Each spot shows its own price before you commit — what you see is what the course charges, tax included, no fees on top.

The booking sheet — prices shown before you commit.

5 You're booked

The tee time shows your name on the slot, it's listed under Me (with a cancel button, no phone call needed), and a confirmation email from the course arrives if the course is live on Guulf.

Done — usually under a minute.

6 Tap “Play” — your yardage is just there

The app finds your hole by GPS and shows front, centre, and back of the green from where you're standing. Walk, and the numbers update. It even knows when you've moved to the next hole. Tap anywhere on the satellite to measure a carry or layup to that exact spot.

Front · centre · back, from your feet.

GPS needs your location — say yes when your phone asks. Works in any browser; nothing to install.

7 Ask the caddie

Below the yardages, the caddie turns the raw number into a plays-like one — wind and slope included, with the math shown — and suggests a club once it knows your bag. Its four tools sit right on the card: Show me the way, Plan your shot (tap the satellite to measure), Mark this shot (tap where you swung, landed, and stopped — that's how it learns your real distances), and Ask your caddie — type or talk, it answers out loud.

The caddie — plays-like, and four tools on one card.

8 Keep score for the whole group

Tap Scorecard. Add your group once; then it's one tap per player per hole. Running totals against par, the full front-nine and back-nine card, and it survives your phone dying — scores are saved as you go. When the round ends, everyone can claim their own card by link.

One phone keeps the card for everyone.

9 Practice mode works at any range

Tap Practice at the driving range: pick a club, tap where each ball lands. Real carry distances between rounds — and they feed the same bag the caddie uses on the course. Works at any range on earth.

The range teaches your bag, one ball at a time.

10 “Me” is your tee times, numbers, and settings

Upcoming tee times (cancel with one tap), My numbers — every club's real carry and roll from your own shots — your home course, and the switches in Options, including deal alerts from courses near you. Your data stays yours: export or delete it any time.

Me — everything that's yours, in one place.