How to use Golf Expense Tracker

Golf Expense Tracker answers one question: what does golf actually cost you? You log what you play and what you pay. The app does the arithmetic, the currency conversion and the comparisons.

The five tabs

Tab	What lives there
Play log	Every round you play
Expenses	Every payment, in any currency
Packages	Season passes and lesson packages
Statistics	What it all adds up to
Data	Backup, restore, import, rates, settings

1. Play log — record a round

Tap Log a round. One form covers everything about a day on the course:

• Date
• Course — search a built-in list of 171 courses across Türkiye, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Greece, the UK and Ireland, the US, the UAE, Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria and Romania, or simply type your own. An unknown name is kept exactly as you typed it.
• Play type — Tournament, Self-play, Casual or Lesson. Each has its own colour, and the bar at the top of the app shows the mix at a glance.
• Holes — 9 or 18
• Score (optional)
• Balls donated (optional) — lost to the water, the trees, the long grass
• Notes (optional) — conditions, partners, anything worth remembering

The round form also creates your expenses for you

• Course fee — enter an amount and it is added to your Expenses list automatically, as a Course fee linked to that round. Edit it on the round and the expense follows.
• Golf cart, trolley, caddy — each is Not used, Included or Extra fee. Choosing Extra fee and entering an amount creates its own linked expense. Where the buggy is bundled into the green fee, the cart is set to Included by default.
• Covered by annual package — tick this when the round is paid for by a season pass. No expense is created, and the round counts towards that package's return.
• Tournament name — appears when the play type is Tournament.
• Lesson hours and lesson package — appear when the play type is Lesson. The hours you enter are deducted from the package's total.

2. Green fees that fill themselves in

Two different mechanisms, both of which you can always overwrite.

Published rate cards

Seven courses have their current rate card built in — TGF Silivri Golf Sahası, TGF Silivri Akademi Saha, PGA Sultan, Pasha, Carya, Cullinan Links and Cornelia. The app reads your round's date and hole count and picks the right fee: the weekday tier (Mon–Tue, Wed–Thu–Fri, Weekend, with public holidays priced as weekends) at the Silivri courses, or the published season at the Belek resorts. A date outside every published range produces no suggestion at all, rather than quoting an expired price.

Your own history

At any other course — the hundreds whose price lists the app will never hold — GET looks at what you have paid there before, for the same hole count, and suggests the median. A median rather than an average, so one unusual round (a guest rate, a tournament day) doesn't drag the figure somewhere unhelpful. It needs at least two rounds; one round is an anecdote, not a pattern. It only ever reads your own account.

In both cases the amount is a starting point. Type over it and your number is kept.

3. Expenses — everything you pay for

Add a payment in any of four currencies (TRY, USD, EUR, GBP) under 14 categories: Teacher / Lesson, Tournament fee, Course fee, Golf Cart, Trolley, Caddy, Course Package, Lesson Package, Club membership, License / Federation, Handicap (HC) fee, Equipment, Range Ball and Other.

• Equipment expenses take a type (Golf Club, Ball, Tee, Textile, Shoes, Other) and a brand. Balls also take a quantity, which feeds the Balls purchased statistic.
• Filter by category with a single tap, with live counts.
• Expenses created from a round are marked as such, and you edit them on the round so the two never drift apart.
• A lesson payment can build the package for you. Enter a teacher payment with hours and GET either creates a new lesson package automatically or adds the amount to an existing one.

4. Packages — season passes and coaching blocks

Two kinds, and they behave differently because the money behaves differently.

Course package (season pass)

You pay once for a year. Tick Covered by annual package on each round you play there, and the package card shows how many rounds it has covered split 18 / 9 holes, your real cost per round falling every time you play, and — for courses with a built-in rate card — what those rounds would have cost at list price. So you can see the point at which the pass paid back, and how far there is to go.

Lesson package (a block of coaching hours)

Hours are consumed two ways: by Lesson rounds linked to the package, and by off-course usage you log directly on the card — a range lesson, for example. The card shows used, remaining and cost per hour.

5. Statistics — what it all adds up to

Filter by year, or by the last 3, 6 or 12 months.

• The cards — Total rounds, Total spend, Average cost per round, Courses played, Balls purchased, Balls donated to the course, and Holes That Have Taken Me Out, naming the course that has claimed the most balls.
• Spend by currency — what you actually paid, in the currency you actually paid it in. Nothing hidden behind a conversion.
• By play type — rounds and spend split across Tournament, Self-play, Casual and Lesson.
• Spend by category — all 14 categories, largest first, with equipment broken down by type.
• Spend by course — round-linked expenses go to that round's course; everything else sits under Trips & other course fees.
• Lesson investment — total lesson fee, total lesson hours, number of payments, average per payment.
• Annual package ROI — what you paid, rounds covered, cost per round, and where available the list value of those rounds and your saving.
• Monthly trend — rounds played, spend, and average cost per round, month by month.

What golf costs you

The one that changes how people think about the number. Costs are grouped by how the money behaves, not what it is for:

• Per-round costs — green fee, cart, trolley, caddy, tournament entry
• Fixed / annual — membership, packages, licence, handicap
• Equipment & practice — clubs, balls, range, lessons

From that split come two honest figures: one more round costs, counting only what recurs every time you tee off, and cost per 18 holes, where a 9-hole round counts as half. Your annual membership is paid whether you play 5 rounds or 50, so dividing it by round count would invent a cost you never actually pay at the tee.

6. Multi-currency, done properly

Enter every expense in the currency you actually paid. Statistics combine them into one reporting currency, decided by the country on your account (Türkiye → EUR, UK → GBP, US → USD, Europe → EUR).

The part that matters: each expense converts at the exchange rate that was in effect on its own date. Rates are fetched automatically from ECB / Frankfurter reference data — for the date you log something, and backfilled for any older record still missing one. When a rate moves, your past totals do not. Last year's season stays exactly what it was.

You can see and edit the rate history yourself in the Data tab, and set which currencies appear first when you enter an amount.

7. Data tab — it's your data

• Account & sync — syncing automatically to your own account, following you to any device you sign in on.
• Download my data (.json) — a complete backup file you keep.
• Restore from backup — re-import a file exported from the app.
• Import expenses (.csv) — export a CSV from Splitwise or similar and import it here. Categories are matched automatically where possible.
• Exchange rates — the dated rate list, updated automatically, editable.
• Region & currencies — your country, and the order currencies appear in. Change it any time; for example if you move abroad.
• Language — English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Italiano, Français, Español.
• Past notifications — every app update announcement, most recent first.
• Delete all data — permanent, typed confirmation required, and the app offers you a backup first.

8. Every device, and offline

• Sign in with the same email and password on your phone and your computer. Every change syncs within seconds.
• Your data also lives on the device, so the app works offline and syncs when you are back online.
• Add it to your home screen — in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It opens full-screen like a native app. Chrome on Android offers the same through Install app.

9. Privacy

Each account only ever sees its own data, and that is enforced at the database level, not just in the app. Your amounts, courses, notes and currencies are never sent to any analytics service. Your own spending history is never shared with another account — including the green-fee suggestions, which read only your rounds.

The ? button, top right, opens Help & Feedback: an in-app FAQ, and Suggest an improvement, which goes straight to the developer with your account email attached so you get a reply.

Where to start

One round. That is the whole ask — the rest can wait until you feel like it.

1. Log your last round — date, course, holes, and the green fee you paid.
2. Look at the Expenses tab. The course fee is already there.
3. Add one thing you bought recently: a glove, a sleeve of balls, a lesson.
4. Add your season pass or lesson package if you have one, then go back and tick the rounds it covered.
5. Open Statistics. With three or four entries the shape of your golf year is already visible — and it only gets sharper.

The app is most useful when the log is honest and current. Two minutes after a round is all it asks.