Trips

Four days away, six rounds, a house, two hire cars and a dinner nobody remembers agreeing to. Normally that ends in a car park with one bloke doing sums on his phone and somebody getting shorted.

A trip is a chapter with its own leaderboard and its own tab. Name it, give it dates, and it looks after itself.

Rounds find it on their own

Any round played inside the trip's dates attaches to it, whether you scored it live or photographed the card three weeks later. You don't tag anything.

One exception, on purpose. If two trips somehow cover the same day, Rivalry attaches the round to neither and leaves it to you. Guessing there would put real money on the wrong tab.

Its own tab, kept apart

This is why trips exist at all. A trip settles separately and the group's running tab never sees trip rounds. Bandon squares up at Bandon, and whatever you owe from the Tuesday game is still waiting when you get home.

What it cost, not just what the golf cost

Add the house, the green fees, the cart, Thursday dinner. Say who paid and who it splits between, evenly or not, because three of you shared a cart and two of you didn't drink.

It nets into one number with the golf. Instead of eight small transfers you get two, and the line underneath shows what's golf and what's costs so nobody takes it on faith. One payment clears the lot.

Anyone can add an expense, which matters because whoever paid isn't always whoever runs the group. Who added it is recorded, and you can remove your own.

To be plain about it: Rivalry never touches the money. No wallet, no card on file, no cut. It's a record of what you agreed among yourselves.

The album

A trip carries photos the same way a round does. Anyone adds them, they stay with the chapter, and years later the page for Bandon has the actual faces from Bandon on it — not just the numbers.

The schedule you build before you go

Add a round to the trip and you're picking two things: a course — the whole directory, including places nobody in the group has ever played — and a day. The date can only land inside the trip, because a round posted outside it would never show up on the trip you posted it from.

That builds the schedule everyone can see: Friday at Pacific Dunes, Saturday at Bandon Trails, who's in for each. When the morning comes, start the round from the schedule itself and the course is already answered.

Where you're staying

The name and address of the house, and a map of it. Type the address and Rivalry offers real ones as you go; pick one and it keeps the location, so the map is there when you land with two bars of signal and need it most.

Tap it for directions in whichever app you actually use — only the ones on your phone are offered. Free text still works, because plenty of rentals have no listed address and "the grey house past the second gate" is a real answer.

It stops there on purpose. No flights, no booking documents, no itinerary for somebody to keep editing. That's a different job, it's well served for free, and unlike everything else in here it's worth nothing the week after.

Talk

Comments sit on the trip and on the individual rounds. Not a chat room, because your group already has one and it organised this trip months ago. The difference is that it lasts. The WhatsApp thread about Dave's 8 on the 12th is gone within a year; three replies pinned to that round are still here in 2031.

Removing one

The rounds survive and go back to the group's ledger. The expenses don't, so the confirmation tells you how many and how much before you tap.