“An excellent multi-functional app providing the amateur golfer with the feel of playing pro tournaments while improving, enhancing, and standardizing golf day scoring.”
That’s how judges of the Sports Technology Awards described United Kingdom-based company VPAR, when it won the honor for “Best Sports App for a Single Sport” in 2014.
The name, VPAR, itself, stands for “versus par.” This moniker reflects the scoring system behind the game. Handicaps happen to be an essential part of what makes golf unique, so people across skill levels can compete against each other. The app gives users a live indication of where they are compared to everyone else in the tournament via their respective relative score to par, like how they are doing “versus par.