The service
Fairway Social runs social golf clubs and keeps a private golf record for individual players. The current product supports recorded Stableford and Stroke events. Features may change, be corrected or be unavailable while the service is improved. Organisers are responsible for checking course, member, score and event information before relying on it.
Organiser authority and member data
The organiser represents that they are authorised by their club to create the clubhouse, add members, manage member information and issue access links. The organiser must only enter information they are entitled to use, respond to member requests, and remove access when it should no longer be available.
Club-use handicaps only
Handicap and differential calculations are for the club's internal social competition. Fairway Social is not an official Golf Australia handicap submission service, does not update an official Golf Australia handicap, and should not be represented as doing so. Official handicap records and competition requirements remain the responsibility of the player, club and relevant golf authority.
Access and acceptable use
Share links, organiser PINs and event scorer codes must be handled carefully. Users must not attempt unauthorised access, interfere with the service, upload unlawful material, or use member information outside legitimate club operations. Organisers should export important records and retain their own source scorecards.
Club plans
A new club starts with a free first month with every feature on. After that the club keeps all of its data, and its roster is limited to 8 active members until it moves to the Club plan. The Club plan costs A$200 per club for 12 months, paid in advance as a single payment taken by our payment provider. There is no per-player charge, and it does not renew automatically: paying again adds a further 12 months. No plan change or payment is completed inside this app.
Setup, data-cleaning or history-import work is not included in the Club plan unless agreed in writing before payment.
Refund requests go to support@fairwaysocial.au and are assessed under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Player plans
Player Passport is the individual product and may be used without joining a club. A player may link matching roster profiles from multiple clubs; this does not grant club authority. Labelling a private round with a club is visible only to the player: it does not enter a club competition, publish a card, award points or share the round's notes or GPS with the club. Fairway Plus is a separate A$49 individual service for twelve months and does not create a per-player charge for the club. It is a single payment, taken by our payment provider, and it does not renew automatically.
A new Passport starts with a free thirty-day term of Fairway Plus. It needs no payment method, renews into nothing, and ends by returning the account to the free Passport with every record intact. Buying Plus during the trial adds a full twelve months to the date the trial already holds.
Free players retain their personal profile, links, raw rounds, courses, holes, shots, bag and handicap records plus export, deletion and unlink controls. Plus gates computed strokes gained, GPS-derived club averages and dispersion, and advanced performance trends, recommendations and course splits. Expiry locks those computed responses without deleting the inputs. Analytics are informational, depend on the sample shown, and are not professional coaching, an official handicap service or a guarantee of improved scores.
Foreground browser GPS can show distances in metres and capture shot positions only after explicit permission while the page is open; automatic background shot detection is not provided and continuous location samples are not stored. Manual coordinates remain available. Strokes gained is calculated only from complete captured shot states against the named embedded reference.
Player export and deletion
A signed-in player may export personal Passport JSON, delete scoped personal records, unlink a club profile, or delete the Passport account with typed confirmation. Deleting a bag club clears its reference from existing shots, and deleting a personal course clears its reference from rounds. Unlinking or deleting Passport never deletes club-owned roster, competition, score or history records. Account deletion does remove the player's email identity, sessions/tokens, personal records, entitlement history and any named account-based club role. Export files contain personal information and should be stored carefully.
Availability and responsibility
Fairway Social will use reasonable care in operating the service, but does not promise uninterrupted availability. To the extent permitted by law, the service is not responsible for decisions made from unchecked or incorrectly entered club data. These terms do not limit non-excludable Australian consumer guarantees.
Support and changes
Questions about club records can go to the club organiser first. Anyone can write to support@fairwaysocial.au for support, cancellation, refunds or data requests, or to privacy@fairwaysocial.au about privacy. If these terms change, the date below changes with them.
Effective 9 October 2026.