Short answer. Ringer uses plain golf words wherever it can. This table gives the few that have a precise meaning in the app, from allowance to week.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Allowance | The percentage of a Course Handicap a game gives, from 1 to 200. Presets are 100, 95, 90, 85, 80 and 75, and each game has its own default. |
| Banker | A settlement choice. Everyone antes into a pot held by one player, who pays the winners out of it. Direct wagers still settle player to player. |
| Big Screen | The full-screen rotating board for a clubhouse TV or a cart, opened from Manage. No login needed. |
| Board | The live leaderboard for a round, with a tab for each game in play. Also called the Leaderboard. |
| Carryover | In Skins, a tied hole's skin rolling forward to the next outright winner. Off unless the Commissioner turns it on. |
| Closest to the Pin, Longest Drive | Contests with a per-player entry. Every player marked in contributes, and the recorded winner takes the pot. |
| Club | A golf club or facility on Ringer. Clubs hold Communities such as leagues and crews. |
| Co-organizer | A helper the host names, with the same management powers. Up to two per outing. Also called a Co-Commissioner. |
| Commissioner | The person who runs an outing or a league: games, groups, tees, money and publishing results. Also called the host or organizer. |
| Course Handicap | Your index converted to the tee you play: Index × (Slope ÷ 113) + (Rating − Par). |
| Course strokes | The net option where every golfer receives their full Playing Handicap. |
| Crew | Your regular group of friends, saved so you can add them to a round without retyping. |
| Direct settle-up | The Individual settlement choice: losers pay winners directly, netted into the fewest payments. |
| Direct wager | A bet paid player to player rather than from a pot: Match Play, Nassau, per-skin Skins, 9-Point, Sixes and Trash. |
| Entry | The per-player stake into a pooled pot, also called the buy-in. The pot is the entry times the players. |
| Follow | Watching a round live without scoring: the board link, or on iPhone the Follow Live Lock Screen activity. |
| Frozen handicap | The index, tee and strokes copied into a round the moment it goes live. Later changes need an explicit correction. |
| GHIN | The USGA handicap service. Ringer keeps a GHIN number as a reference only and reads your index from a screenshot of your GHIN card. |
| Gross | Actual strokes, no handicap. |
| Group | A tee group with one tee time and one scorekeeper. Distinct from a team. |
| Guest | A player with no Ringer account: a name and, if given, a handicap. |
| Handicap Index | Your standing index to one decimal, such as 7.5 or +2. It belongs to you, not to a round. |
| Invite code | A code from a member that unlocks a waitlisted account. |
| Invite link | The one link a host shares for a round. It opens the RSVP page, the board and the results without a login. |
| League | A Community that plays a season of weekly rounds with standings. |
| Nassau | Three bets in one, front nine, back nine and the 18, each worth the stake. Presses are extra bets. |
| Net | Gross less the handicap strokes received. |
| Net double bogey | A per-hole cap of par + 2 + the strokes you receive on that hole. It applies to the game math, not to what you enter. |
| Off low | The lowest-handicap player in the game plays off zero and everyone else receives the difference. Also written "Off the low player". |
| Outing | The container for a game or a weekend: roster, rounds, games and money. |
| Participation points | Season points for playing a week regardless of finish. Default 5. |
| Playing Handicap | Course Handicap times the allowance, rounded once, then off low if the game uses it. It decides the stroke dots on your card. |
| Plus handicap | Better than scratch, written +2. A plus player gives strokes back on the easiest holes. |
| Pot | A pooled prize funded by entries. Winner take all unless the Commissioner sets paid places. |
| Press | A new bet started when a side falls two down in Nassau or Sixes, running to the end of that nine or six. |
| Provisional | A result that can still change: a skin the field has not finished, or a completed round not yet published. |
| Publish | Freeze an official, numbered revision of a round's results and money. Also called finalize. |
| Recap (The Recap) | A short post-round write-up in one of seven voices. The Commissioner's Recap is the longer roast. |
| Reopen | Unlock a closed or published round for a correction, with a written reason. |
| Ringer Confirmed | A course whose scorecard a Commissioner has checked against the printed card. |
| Ringer Index | Ringer's name for the index it keeps for you, shown when you import a GHIN card and on Improve. Not an official handicap. |
| Round | One day of golf on one course inside an outing. |
| Round Hub | The home screen for a round: roster, readiness, invite tools, Manage and the board. |
| RSVP | A player's answer to an invite: in, maybe or out. |
| Run it back | Create next week's round from a finished one, with the same course, tee time, players and games. |
| Scorekeeper | The one player in each group who keeps the card. The scorekeeper link lets a guest do it with no login. |
| Scoring Center | The league commissioner's screen for running and closing a week's scoring. |
| Season | A league's run of weeks with one set of scoring rules and one standings table. |
| Settle up | Who owes whom after the round, netted across every game. |
| Side bet | A head-to-head bet between two named players, settled directly. |
| Skin | A hole won outright by the low score in the field. A tie kills the skin or carries it. |
| Stableford | Points per hole against par: 5 for albatross, 4 eagle, 3 birdie, 2 par, 1 bogey, 0 for worse. |
| Standings | A league season's ranking by points, also called the Table. Recomputed from each week's final result. |
| Stroke index | The 1 to 18 ranking of hole difficulty on the card. Strokes go to the lowest numbers first. |
| Tail points | Season points for any finish below the placement list. Default 5. |
| Tie-break | The rule that orders exact ties when a round is completed: ties stand, USGA / WHS last 9-6-3-1, or countback by stroke index. |
| Trash | Side awards that ride alongside the main game: greenies, sandies, gross birdie or better, barkies, chippies and polies. |
| Verified handicap | An index imported from a GHIN card or entered by a Commissioner. A self-entered index shows as "est." until confirmed. |
| Week | One round in a league season. Golfers see it as a round; the commissioner sees it as a week. |