--- title: "PGA TOUR: Fan App with Live Scoring | Shockoe" description: "How Shockoe helped rebuild the PGA TOUR mobile app, with live scoring, a 3D course map with TOURCast, and 50% more live event engagement year over year." canonical: "https://shockoe.com/our-work/pga-tour/" --- # Fan App with Live Scoring > How Shockoe helped rebuild the PGA TOUR mobile app, with live scoring, a 3D course map with TOURCast, and 50% more live event engagement year over year. [← All case studies](https://shockoe.com/our-work/) PGA TOUR Client *PGA TOUR* Sector Sports What we did Discovery, experience design, and iOS and Android app development *A hand holding a phone that shows a hole map and scorecard in the PGA TOUR app, with a golf ball on the grass beside it.* ## Every shot, as it happens. ### The challenge A loyal fanbase and a global audience expected more from the PGA TOUR's mobile app. Score updates were slow, the app crashed often, and the features fans wanted most were hard to find or missing. It was time to start over with the right partner. ### The build A rebuilt fan app, designed around the fan. After a thorough discovery phase and agreement on the visual style, we opened the app with highlights and video, then let fans follow their favorite players, stats, news, and standings. With TOURCast, fans can navigate a 3D map of the course and trace each player's shots hole by hole. Scores refresh in near real time, averaging 12 seconds against live play, the same experience fans expect from live-streaming apps like ESPN. Geofencing shows concession locations and where players are on the course, and fans can buy tickets and find events nearby. ## The result Live event engagement up 50% year over year since launch. On event weekends more than 900,000 fans use the app, and daily use passes 600,000, with positive feedback from both players and fans. * 50% Year-over-year growth in live event engagement * 900,000+ Fans active on event weekends * 12 sec Average score update against live play ## Project images * *The scorecard screen with a 3D aerial map of a par 5 hole, showing yardage, score, and the path of each shot.* * *A hole flyover showing par, yardage, and a bunker beside the green, with a button to view the tour of the hole.* * *The app home screen with a full-bleed highlight story, a player on the course, and a strip of leaders with their scores.* * *The Latest News screen listing recent stories with video thumbnails, reading time, and a leaders strip above.* * *The live leaderboard for an event in progress, with each player's position, score, and holes completed.* ## In their words > “This was, by far, the most collaborative project I think we've ever done at the \[PGA\] TOUR on the digital side of the house.” Scott Gutterman SVP, Digital Operations, PGA TOUR ## In the press * PGA TOUR [Welcome to the PGA TOUR's new app](https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2022/11/15/welcome-to-the-pga-tours-new-app) November 15, 2022 · Published by the client * Sports Business Journal [PGA Tour takes page from Instagram with new app](https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2022/11/15/Technology/PGA-Tour-new-app/) November 15, 2022 · Summary of an earlier report * Sports Video Group [PGA TOUR Set to Launch New Website to Accompany Recently Relaunched Mobile App](https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/02/06/pga-tour-set-to-launch-new-website-to-accompany-recently-relaunched-mobile-app/) February 6, 2023 ## Questions about this project ### What does the fan app do? It brings live scoring, highlights and video, player news, standings, TOURCast's 3D course map with shot tracing, and ticketing into one mobile app for fans following events in person or from home. ### How fast do scores update? Scores update in near real time, averaging 12 seconds against live play, so fans get the same pace they expect from live-streaming apps like ESPN. ### How does the app help fans at the course? Geofencing shows where concessions are and where players are along the course, and fans can buy tickets to upcoming events and explore events nearby. ### How did engagement change after launch? Live event engagement grew 50% year over year, and on event weekends more than 900,000 fans use the app, with daily use passing 600,000. ## More in Sports & Entertainment [All case studies](https://shockoe.com/our-work/) UFC ### Fighter Travel and Logistics App Travel and event logistics, in one app. [View case study](https://shockoe.com/our-work/ufc/) D.C. 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