Big Show Golf
Reading the leaderboard
How positions, net and gross scores, skins and close-ups show on the Leaderboard tab, format by format.
Open the game and tap Leaderboard. It updates live as anyone in the game enters scores.
The basics
- Position: lowest score first (most points first in points games). Players tied on score share a position.
- To par: shown next to each player, like −2 or +5, for the holes played so far.
- Gross or net: gross is the strokes you took. In a net game, your handicap strokes come off on the holes where you get them, so everyone plays even.
- DNF: players with an X on any hole go after everyone who finished; players who haven't started yet go last.
Format by format
| Format | Who's winning |
|---|---|
| Stroke Play | Lowest total score |
| Match Play | Most holes won head to head |
| Stableford | Most points (points per hole for your score against par) |
| Quota | Most points over your quota |
| Front / Back / Overall | Each tee time is a team, scored separately for the front 9, back 9 and all 18 |
| Team game | The team's score counts (best ball, alternate shot or scramble) |
| 6/6/6 | The Dots board: fewest dots buys the beer |
See Choosing a format for how each one works.
Skins and close-ups
If the game has skins, the leaderboard lists each hole someone won outright with the lowest score. If two or more players tie for low, nobody wins that hole.
If it has close-ups (closest to the pin), it shows who's closest on each close-up hole and how far.
Round stats
After the round, the Leaderboard (and the game page on the website) shows Round stats for every player: their score, eagles, birdies, pars, bogeys and double bogeys, their group's round time, and putts, fairways and greens for players who track and share them.
Switch the rank between This game, Today (every 18-hole round on Big Show Golf today) and All of Big Show. Today and All of Big Show compare rounds by score differential, which adjusts for each course's rating and slope, so a round at a hard course isn't penalized.
My stats: how you compare
In Profile → My stats, How you compare shows your averages over your latest 20 rounds (18 holes, last 12 months): score differential, scoring on par 3s, 4s and 5s, birdies, doubles, and putts, fairways, greens and scrambling if you track them. An arrow shows whether your last 5 rounds are better or worse.
Pick who to compare with: golfers at your handicap, players you play with, your state, everyone, or the players at your courses. Each line says what share of those players you're better than, and Strengths and Work on pick out the biggest differences. Your misses shows where your missed fairways and greens go.
Comparisons use totals only: nobody sees your numbers, and you never see anyone else's. A comparison shows once 5 or more players have numbers for it. To leave your rounds out of other players' comparisons, turn off Include my rounds in comparisons at the bottom of My stats.
Money
In a game played for money, the results show what each player won from the main prize, skins and close-ups once the round is finished. See Money settings.
Updated October 29, 2026