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Junk

Junk

The small stuff. KP, sandies, barkies, and the shot nobody believed you hit.

It adds up faster than anyone expects, and it is the best part of the drive home.

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The app runs the game
The app runs the game

Big Fairways walks you through every step, hole by hole. No rule sheet in your back pocket and nobody keeping a tally on a napkin.

Share the leaderboard
Share the leaderboard

Send one link and the whole group follows along from their own phone, live, while you play.

Play several games at once
Play several games at once

Run this alongside any other side game. The points stay separate and the math stays clean.

Every point is counted
Every point is counted

Points during the round, then one clean total per player at the end. Nobody does arithmetic on the drive home.

What is Junk in golf?

The small stuff. KP, sandies, barkies, and the shot nobody believed you hit. It adds up faster than anyone expects, and it is the best part of the drive home. Junk is played by everyone, all round, and Big Fairways scores it hole by hole so nobody in the group has to keep track.

How do you play Junk?

Why golfers love it

Junk is where the stories live. Nobody remembers a routine par, but everybody remembers the barkie off the pine on twelve. It also keeps the worst player in the group in the game, because a sandy pays the same whether you shoot seventy five or ninety five.

How Big Fairways runs it for you

Pick Junk when you set up the round, choose who is in, and start playing. The app prompts you at each step, keeps the running points, and lets you run other side games at the same time without the totals getting tangled. At the end you get one clean total per player and the shortest possible list of payments.

Send one link and your group follows the leaderboard live from their own phones, whether they are in your cart or watching from the clubhouse. Every round you post is saved to your own lifetime scorecard, which only you can see.

Common questions

What is a barkie in golf?

A barkie is a par or better on a hole where your ball hit a tree. It is one of the most popular junk points because it rewards a recovery nobody saw coming.

What does KP mean in golf?

KP means closest to the pin. On a par three, the player whose tee shot finishes nearest the hole and stays on the green wins the KP for that hole.

What is a sandy in golf?

A sandy is a par or better on a hole where you played a shot from a bunker. Getting up and down from sand and still making par earns the point.

Do you have to play for money?

No. Big Fairways counts points. What your group decides to do with those points afterwards is entirely up to the group, and the app never handles anyone's money.

Is Big Fairways free?

Yes, free while we build it. Every side game, the live leaderboard, the settle up totals and your lifetime scorecards are all included, and there is nothing to install because it runs in any phone browser.

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Play Junk this weekend

Set it up in four taps, send the link to the group, and let the app keep every point.

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