How the app works
Here's exactly what Shankdt does.
Golf admin steals your time — the calls, the WhatsApps, the arguments. Shankdt gives it back: book any of 360+ SA courses in about 30 seconds, join an open fourball near your handicap, and prove your best shots. This page walks the whole app, screen by screen.
Where your time goes
The old way vs. the Shankdt way
Phone the pro shop. Engaged. Phone again. Leave a message.
Every course in one place — send the request, confirmation in the app.
WhatsApp fourteen people to find a fourth. Two reply. One cancels.
Join an open fourball at your handicap. Done.
“That was 250 easy.” It was 180 into the wind.
Frame-accurate hang time + ballistics. The number is the number.
A paper entry sheet on a corkboard somewhere.
Enter comps from your phone; your spot is reserved instantly.
The app, tab by tab
Every tab, laid bare.
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Explore tab
Find the course. Every course.
Finding a bookable tee time: ~20 seconds.
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Search 360+ courses by name, town or province — or filter: 18/9 holes, price band, top-rated.
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Open any course: photo gallery, golfer reviews with real photos, facilities, green fees and cart prices.
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Pick your date from the strip and see the tee sheet — morning and afternoon, slot by slot.
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Booking flow
Book it before your coffee cools.
The old way: 3 phone calls and a call-back. Shankdt: ~30 seconds.
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Tap a slot, choose players, walk or ride (1 or 2 carts), and confirm. On top of the club's prices you pay one all-inclusive booking fee — typically 8-9% of the booking, never more than 12% — the same total whether you settle at the club or pay in the app. The exact rand amount is shown before you pay, and nothing is added afterwards.
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Playing as a group? Split the booking fee your way — even, one player covers it, or set exactly who pays what. Everyone gets their own link and the round locks in the second the last mate pays.
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We phone your booking through to the pro shop and confirm in about 15 minutes — you never phone a pro shop again.
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Your booking lives in My bookings with a reference; cancel from there if plans change.
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Clubhouse tab
The Clubhouse — never play alone.
Finding a fourth: one tap instead of fourteen WhatsApps.
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Playing solo or as a pair? Join an open fourball — games within ±5 of your handicap float to the top with an “in your band” badge, so the golf is actually fun.
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Add your mates to your Crew: their rounds, comps and traced shots get their own filter, and inviting a friend to Shankdt is one tap.
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A living feed of what SA golf is doing — give kudos, follow the Big Stage pro events, report anything that doesn't belong.
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Shot tracer
The shot tracer — proof, not stories.
Settling “how far was that?”: instantly, with numbers.
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Film your shot (or pick a clip). Step frame-by-frame to mark impact and landing — that's your exact hang time, not a guess.
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Tap the flight you saw and Shankdt draws the emerald tracer over your own footage, then runs a full ballistic model: carry, apex, ball speed, launch and descent.
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Coast or Highveld matters — the model adds the altitude carry you really get. Watch the live replay, pick a card style, share to WhatsApp or Instagram in one tap, or post it straight to the Clubhouse feed.
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Events, My bookings & Profile
Comps, bookings and your game.
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Enter club comps and golf days from the Events tab — you pay the entry fee at registration, and your spot is reserved in the app.
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Follow the Big Stage: the Nedbank, the Dunhill, LIV at Steyn City — and our own Shankdt Invitational on the road to the Sunshine Tour.
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Your Profile holds your details, handicap (±5 matching), your Crew and your Pro membership — set it once, every booking prefills.
Works with your golf life
Fits the tools you already use.
Shankdt doesn't ask you to leave anything behind — bring your handicap, log scores from any app, share wherever your mates are, and plug into your club's tee sheet.
Your handicap
GolfRSA & HNA
Link your GolfRSA/HNA membership and we verify it by hand — the badge follows your name once we've checked it. Affiliated visitor rates are shown where a club publishes them; you claim them at the pro shop. Your number also drives fourball matching within ±5.
Scorecards
18Birdies, Golfshot & paper
Scored your round in any app — or on the back of the card? Log it in Shankdt in seconds and keep your whole golf story in one place.
Share your shots
WhatsApp & Instagram
Trace your best swing and send the card straight to WhatsApp or Instagram in a tap — or post it to the Clubhouse feed.
Club tee sheets
Your club's tee sheet
Plays alongside the system your club already runs, so your booking lands where the pro shop already works.
Fill the fourball
Short a fourth? One message to the group.
Golf's oldest headache — chasing a fourth over fourteen WhatsApps — solved in a single message. Pick the course, the day and the tee time, say how many spots are open, and Shankdt writes the message. Drop it in the group chat and the first mate to tap is in.
One tap
Straight to WhatsApp
Opens WhatsApp with the message already written. Works on your phone and on WhatsApp Web — no app to install for the mate you are inviting.
No sign-up
Your mates just tap
The person filling the spot does not need an account to see the round. The friction sits with nobody.
Three languages
English, Afrikaans & isiZulu
Browse in any of the three. The invite message itself goes out in English or Afrikaans for now — isiZulu joins once our native-speaker review signs it off.
Shankdt Pro
When you want the full lab.
Free gets you 10 traces a month at 720p. Pro removes the ceiling: unlimited traces at 1080p and the highest quality your phone records. It adds ball speed, launch and descent, your per-club “My Bag” distances, and personal calibration from your rangefinder. It also waives your own share of the booking fee. Pro billing opens soon — founding members lock launch pricing.
See pricing & founding membershipYour fourball’s one tap away.
Join the beta and be first in when Shankdt opens — book a tee time, find your fourth, and trace that one good shot you’ll talk about all week.