How to use Bucketlist Golf

My Lists is the hub. Each card shows a preview mosaic, how many courses are on it, and small flags for the countries it covers.

• Open, edit, or delete a list. The default Bucket List can be renamed but not deleted.
• Give a list its own emoji and description.
• Pin a list to the menu so it sits in your navigation as a shortcut.
• Lists you have saved from other golfers appear in their own section underneath.

In a list’s settings, tick Share publicly. That gives you a link anyone can open, and it puts the list into community lists so other golfers can find, save and like it. Flip it back to private at any time.

Search returns one card per club, with that club's courses inside it. Some of those courses have a full profile — photography, description, rankings — and some come from a much larger worldwide registry we hold but have not written up yet. Either way the club appears once, so you never have to work out which of two similar-looking results is the right one.

Clubs only appear once you type a search or pick a country, region or city — otherwise there would be tens of thousands of them. Adding a course without a profile is instant, and its page fills in over time.

A combination of nine-hole loops is a course in its own right: at Prise d'Eau, De Blaak/De Sijsten and De Leije/De Blaak are two different eighteens, and ranking sites judge them separately. So every one of them is listed, and you can add whichever you played.

What lands on your list is always a course, never the club — a course is what gets photographed, written up and ranked. Where a club's courses share loops and one of them is ranked, tapping Add takes that one and tells you which: at Het Rijk van Nunspeet it is the Noord/Oost, the one in the Dutch top 50. Open the card to pick a different combination instead.

Otherwise the card asks, because there is nothing to go on. Prise d'Eau's three combinations are unranked and equally plausible; Courson has two that are ranked separately and are not interchangeable; and St Andrews Links is an address rather than a course, where the Old is emphatically not the New. Short nine-hole and par-3 courses sit behind a toggle so the card stays readable.

• Drag courses to reorder your list, or use the move up/down controls.
• Removing a course offers an Undo straight away.
• On a wide screen your list stays pinned beside the search; on a phone it folds into a bottom sheet that tells you what you just added.
• If a course genuinely is not there, use the Course not found form to ask for it.

The same screen holds the list’s name, emoji, description, the public/private switch with a copy-link button, and Delete. Changes save as you go — watch for the “Saved” indicator.

When Leo names real courses, they appear as cards under the answer. Hit save and you get a draft list: untick anything you do not want, then save it all into a brand-new list or add it to one you already have. This is the fastest way to go from “where should I play in Portugal?” to a real bucket list.

• Past conversations sit in a rail beside the chat on desktop, or a drawer on mobile. The most recent 40 are kept.
• Any conversation can be shared as a link, complete with a QR code — handy for showing a plan to the people you are travelling with.
• Sharing is reversible: Stop sharing kills the link.

If Leo gives a genuinely good answer about a specific course, you can publish it to that course’s Golfers asked about this course section, where everyone benefits. Not every answer makes it — answers are checked first, and vague or thin ones are declined.

If someone has already asked your question, Leo tells you and links to the existing answer rather than repeating itself. You can still ask anyway.

• You need to be signed in to ask anything.
• Course-page questions are capped at 30 per day.
• Leo searches the web live, so it is good on facts but can still be wrong — treat green fees, access rules and opening dates as a starting point, not gospel.
• Directory courses without a profile do not have a Leo panel, because there is nothing for an answer to build on.

• Move a stop up or down, or assign it to a different day.
• Use Play again to schedule another round at the same course on the following day, then move it if needed.
• Take a course off the trip entirely — it drops to a Not on this trip section and can be added back.
• Insert a free day anywhere, add one at the end, or remove an empty one. Rest days, travel days, days off.
• Name each day, with a preset label or your own text and emoji.
• Set a trip start and end point — the city you fly into and out of — so the drives at either end count.
• Unhappy with your edits? Suggested route puts the automatic plan back.

Switch from Plan to Story to add a title, introduction, a narrative for each day, notes about individual rounds, and a closing thought. Notes stay attached when a round moves — including when you play the same course more than once.

Finish the plan before you write. Once every course sits on the day you will play it, your dates are in, and the days between rounds carry labels, Write my story with Leodrafts the empty boxes from that plan: the days you labelled, and a note on each round built from the course profile. Leo leaves a day’s scene-setting blank when the day has no labels, because that part is yours. It never writes over anything you have already typed, and Undo puts the draft back.

Preview shows the read-only course-card layout. When it is ready, press Publish storyfor an unlisted link that works without signing in. Later planning edits remain private until you choosePublish changes.

Give the trip a start date and the days fill in from there. You can set an end date or nudge the length with the day stepper.

One quirk: you cannot shorten a trip past the last day that still has golf in it. Take the courses off that day first, then shorten it.

The kilometre figure is a straight-line estimate between courses, not a driving distance. It is there to tell you whether two courses belong in the same day — use a real map app for actual directions.

Courses we do not have coordinates for cannot be placed on a route. They are listed separately so you do not lose track of them.

• The date you played — or skip it if you cannot remember.
• A star rating.
• Photos, as many as you like.
• Notes, and your favourite hole.

All of it is optional; a course can simply be marked played. You can edit or remove an entry later from the same place, and what you write shows up as your journal entry on that course’s page.

Logging a round can unlock badges, and the panel shows how close you are to the next one. The first couple of rounds you log in a sitting get a small celebration; after that it quiets down so a long logging session does not become a series of interruptions.

Country, region and city chain together — pick a country and the regions inside it appear. On top of that you can filter by:

• Course type, price band ($ to $$$$$), and access.
• Which ranking a course appears in, and championships it has hosted.
• Played status — show everything, only the ones you have left, or only the ones you have played.

Sort by rank, name, country, unplayed first, or Closest to Home. That last one needs a home base set in Settings.

Active filters show as chips you can remove one at a time, and search ignores punctuation — so “prise d eau” finds “Prise d’Eau”.

• List — full cards with photography. The default.
• Table — dense rows, sortable, with a status circle for marking courses played quickly.
• Map — the same filtered results plotted geographically.

Courses added from the worldwide directory start without a written profile — you will see “Overview coming soon” instead. They still work exactly the same for saving, marking played and mapping; the writing gets filled in over time. Questions about a course only appear once it has a profile to build on.

• A map of everywhere you have played.
• Your recent rounds, with the notes and photos you added.
• Badge progress broken down by category, with how far you are from the next one.
• The leaderboard, switchable by ranking.

The passport is the travel view: a stamp for every country you have played in, in the order you first played there, plus a recap of your year.

Preview

Scotland

6 courses

First: Jun 2024

Ireland

3 courses

First: Sep 2025

Badges come from playing a certain number of courses, reaching new countries or regions, playing courses by a given architect, ticking off championship venues, or getting through a chunk of a ranking. They count unique courses — a course in three rankings still counts once.