This winter felt different.
It felt less like incremental updates and more like a shift. A move from a cool golf app toward something that feels like a real platform.
Here’s what we shipped.
Bantee Web
Bantee started as a mobile app for tracking golf rounds.
But we never wanted to be just another on course app.
The average golfer spends about 1% of their year actually playing golf. Roughly 20 rounds. Around 100 hours out of 8,760.
We’re not building a product that only matters 1% of the time.
In hindsight, starting on web might have made that clearer from day one. Regardless, https://banteegolf.com is now live, and it feels like a real inflection point.
The web gives us a bigger sandbox. Faster experimentation. Easier iteration. More room to build experiences that aren’t limited to what happens between the first tee and the eighteenth green.
You’ll see us push hard here.
Chubbs AI (Beta, Web Only)
AI is fundamentally changing how products are built and used.
Internally, there’s no world where we ship at this pace without Claude Code and Cursor. That’s just the truth.
Externally, we’re building AI first experiences for golfers.
Chubbs is our first swing at it. An AI caddie you can plan golf trips with, get equipment recommendations from, build practice plans with, and ask general golf questions.
More subtly, Chubbs also powers the About sections across Club profiles, Course pages, PGA Tour events, and Architect profiles.
It’s not a gimmick.
It’s infrastructure.
PGA Tour Leaderboards and Live Odds
One reason we’ve never wanted to be an “on-course only” product:
Most golfers don’t play every week.
If the product is only relevant when someone is playing a round, you can't build a real relationship with your users.
Integrating live PGA Tour scoring gives golfers a reason to open Bantee even when they’re not playing. That matters.
Selfishly, we’re huge PGA fans. Being able to check in from our own app is incredibly satisfying.
More importantly, we built this on top of our existing outings infrastructure. The same system that powers PGA leaderboards powers your group’s outing.
Share to Social Templates
A running app called Aura went viral for dramatic run overlays.
We loved the idea.
So we built it for golf.
Now when you finish a round, you can share your score to Instagram using custom designed templates layered over your photos from the day.
Golf is inherently visual. Your scorecard shouldn’t look like a spreadsheet.
Club Profiles, Course History and Architect Profiles
Golf isn’t just 18 holes. It’s where you’ve played. Who designed it. The story behind the place.
We started connecting that layer.
Club profiles now go deeper. Course history. Architect context. How places tie together.
The goal isn’t more data.
It’s to make Bantee feel like a living record of your golf life, not just a place to dump scores and forget about them.
Improved Outings and Group Play
There’s a big push right now to build Golf Genius 2.0.
We’re fans of Golf Genius. They’ve built something that works, and a ton of clubs rely on it.
But our approach is different.
They’ve largely grown top down. We’re starting bottom up.
We’re putting the tools directly in the golfer’s hands.
Very few club managers are sitting around thinking, I wish this event felt more digitally native.
In many cases, handwritten scorecards and big analog leaderboards are part of the charm.
And honestly, we agree.
We’re not trying to turn every round into a tech demo. We’re not building for influencers filming every swing.
We’re building for the group chat.
We’d rather convince you that Bantee is the best place to track your golf life. Lightweight. Non invasive. Log your rounds. Track your handicap. Save the memories. Share the photos.
From there, it naturally becomes the place to run your group chat, plan trips, and host outings.
At a high level, golf outings are social events.
Partiful exploded by making it easier to RSVP to dinner parties and events.
We think there’s a world where Bantee becomes the Partiful for golf.
App Wide UI and UX Updates
Lots of polish. Cleaner flows. Better performance.
More intentional design decisions across the board.
Nothing flashy.
Just tighter.
We’re still early.
But this winter felt like a shift from cool app to actual platform.
And we’re just getting started.
