New York, NY — Leaderboard today announced the launch of Wolf, a fully customizable scoring experience designed to handle the wide range of formats and house rules golfers use when playing one of the game’s most popular wagering formats.
Wolf has long been a staple of competitive group golf, but scoring it accurately becomes increasingly difficult as players introduce carryovers, multipliers, money holes, and side games. Leaderboard’s new Wolf experience was built specifically to solve that problem in real time, without forcing players into a rigid ruleset or tricky post round math.
Unlike traditional Wolf scorecards and standalone calculators, Leaderboard’s Wolf is deeply flexible. Players can enable carryovers, toggle birdie and eagle multipliers, configure money holes using a points multiplier, “last minus first”, or standard formats, and automatically calculate Lone Wolf, Blind Wolf, or team outcomes. Groups can also customize who serves as Wolf on any hole, allowing for formats that go beyond the classic rotation.
The experience is powered by Leaderboard’s direct integration with the United States Golf Association, using real Course Handicaps™ and allowing players to post scores to their Handicap Index® after the round. This brings official handicap accuracy to a wagering game that has historically lived outside traditional scorekeeping systems.
Wolf on Leaderboard uses a simple, top to bottom zero sum scoring model per hole, making it easy to understand who won, how much the hole was worth, and how payouts are changing as the round progresses. Players can see what settlements will look like before or after the round is finished, removing confusion and disputes at the end of play.
The system also supports custom pot sizes on a hole by hole basis. If a group runs a house rule that is not explicitly modeled, players can enter a custom pot amount and Leaderboard will divide it based on the outcome of the hole. In addition to Wolf, players can run skins pots and individual or team side matches against any other player concurrently, all tracked within the same round.
At the end of the round, Leaderboard’s settlement algorithm tallies every wager and calculates how the group can settle up using the fewest number of transactions possible, turning even the most complex games into a clean, easy payout summary for reference when settling up with the group.
“When we talked to golfers about how they actually play Wolf, we found a ton of overlap, but also a surprising number of house rules,” said Riley Pratt, Founder and CEO of Leaderboard Golf. “Everyone tweaks it a little differently, and once you add carryovers, multipliers, and side games, it gets wild to score on your own. We’re pumped to launch something that handles all of that in real time, so you can focus on the golf and have more fun competing with friends.”
Wolf is delivered through Leaderboard’s clean, modern interface and is fully integrated into an app that already supports dozens of game types, GPS, stats, and historical tracking. Rather than existing as a standalone utility, Wolf becomes part of a broader competitive and social golf experience, backed by official USGA data.
The app is available on both iOS and Android, with Wolf coming to Android soon. About Leaderboard GolfLeaderboard is the ultimate companion app for golfers and golf groups, offering intuitive scoring, GPS, side game tracking, post-round stats and playing history. With over 100K golfers and growing, Leaderboard is changing the way the game is played and shared.
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