PGA Tour

Review by eFreeware

PGA Tour is the official Android app of the PGA TOUR, published by the tour itself, and it exists to put a tournament's leaderboard, scorecards and video on your phone. It has been free since it first appeared in 2011, and the current version covers the main tour plus the Champions Tour, Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas. If you follow professional golf week to week, this is the most direct way to do it on Android.

The reason to consider it is depth. Rather than a headline score and a paragraph of text, the app is built around live player scorecards with play-by-play, shot trails and live stats, and a shot-tracking view called TOURCast that follows every shot from every player. For anyone who wants to know how a round actually unfolded, that is a different proposition from a general sports app that treats golf as one line in a results list.

Built for tournament followers, not casual readers

This is an app for people who watch a leaderboard move on a Sunday afternoon and want to know why. The live leaderboard is the front door, with quick access to a player's scorecard, profile and video from the same place. Following a handful of players and subscribing to notifications for them is the natural way to use it.

It also suits the more studious side of following golf. Course detail includes hole layouts and descriptions alongside live stats for each hole, which is useful when you want to understand what a particular stretch of holes is doing to the field. Tee times for each round of an event are there too, so you can plan around when a group goes out.

Someone who only wants final scores and a short recap will find more here than they need.

Leaderboard, scorecards and TOURCast

The core of the app is the real-time leaderboard, and it is designed as a hub rather than a static table: from a player's position you can move into their scorecard, their profile or video without hunting through menus. Live scorecards carry play-by-play, shot trails and live statistics, so a round can be read shot by shot rather than as a single number.

TOURCast is the most ambitious part. It tracks each shot taken by every player in detail, the sort of coverage usually reserved for a broadcast graphic. I would expect this to be the feature that decides whether the app is worth keeping for a serious follower, because it turns a tournament into something you can inspect rather than just watch.

The trade-off is that this is a lot of information aimed at one screen. The developer has built the app around live data, and the value you get from it scales with how much you want to dig into a round.

Video, course guides and the season at a glance

Alongside the live data, the app also carries player highlights and round recaps on demand. That is the part of the app that works for someone who missed the afternoon's play and wants to catch up without sitting through a full broadcast.

The full season schedule is included, so you can see what is coming rather than only what is happening now, and tee times for each round let you check when particular groups are due out.

News from PGATour.com rounds out the package for the stories around the scores. Between the schedule, the course guides and the news feed, the app is set up to be used across a week, not only during a final round.

What it costs and what comes with it

The app is free to download, and it carries advertising. There are no in-app purchases. That is a simple arrangement: you get the leaderboard, scorecards, TOURCast, video, course detail, schedule, tee times and news.

The trade-off for a free app with ads is the ads themselves. The app is rated for Everyone, and it has been available on Android since March 2011, with an update in September 2026 that adjusted the overall probability chart for the Presidents Cup.

The reception is worth noting before you install. It has more than a million installs and an average rating of 2.9 from 18,062 ratings.

Where a general sports app may serve you better

The alternative to a dedicated tour app is a general sports service, the sort that covers several leagues and gives you scores, standings and news in one place. If golf is one interest among many, that kind of app keeps everything together, and you avoid installing something that only lights up during tournaments.

A second option is following the tour through a broadcaster's coverage or a news site. Those give you commentary and context rather than raw shot data, which suits anyone who wants the story of a round rather than the mechanics of it. The PGA Tour app is the opposite trade: less narrative, more per-shot detail.

There is also the question of how much live data you actually want on a phone. A leaderboard and a recap are enough for plenty of people, and the deeper tools here are aimed at those who will use them. If you mainly want to know who won, a general sports app will do it with less to look at.

A detailed companion for committed golf followers

The PGA Tour app is worth installing if you follow professional golf closely and want the tournament itself rather than a summary of it. The combination of a real-time leaderboard, live scorecards with play-by-play and shot trails, TOURCast tracking for every shot, course detail with per-hole stats, tee times, video and news covers a tournament from several angles, and the additional tour coverage widens the field of events you can follow.

It is free, it carries ads, and there are no purchases to make inside it.

For a committed follower who wants to see how a round was built, shot by shot, this is the most complete option on Android. For someone who checks scores once on a Sunday evening, a general sports app will cover it with less on screen.

What's new in version 2026.2.33.2

Thanks for choosing the PGA Tour app. In this version, we've updated the following: - Improvement to the Overall Probability chart for Presidents Cup