Our story
Forty years of golf.
One stubborn problem.
It started on the first tee.
I've been playing golf since I was 10 — that's over four decades of rounds. And in all those years, one thing never changed: the way we keep score. The same little cardboard card. The same tiny pencil that breaks if you breathe on it.
The paper scorecard isn't bad. It just hasn't really changed since the 1800s. And honestly — we'd all stopped noticing.
Then phones tried to fix it. And made it worse.
Apps promised to modernize golf. In practice? You pull out a phone every single hole. You squint in the sun. A notification pops up mid-backswing. You look up and your foursome is staring at you. The phone solved one problem and created six — suddenly you're managing a phone at a golf course instead of playing golf.
So we built the missing link.
StrokeInk is what should have existed years ago — something between the cardboard card and the obnoxious phone. A 3.52" e-ink display readable in sunlight, five tactile buttons, weeks of battery, clipped to your cart's steering wheel where the scorecard already lives.
One tap per stroke. One tap per putt. No notifications, no app to open during the round. You score like you would on paper — except now the data is real and waiting for you when you finish.
The app is where it gets interesting.
You pick your course in the app and we push the full data to the device — yardages, par, handicap, slope, the works. The device knows the course before you do. Then you play, phone-free. When you're done, it syncs over Bluetooth in seconds: advanced analytics, real handicap, strokes-gained, where you're leaking shots. The layer paper never could give you.
And it's social.
Golf is a solo game you play with friends. So StrokeInk has a feed — post your round, tag your foursome, settle the $5 nassau, compete on your home-course leaderboard. Golf has always been social. StrokeInk just gives that part somewhere to live.
Made by golfers. For golfers.
Every decision came from one question: would I actually want this on my cart this Saturday? We're not trying to revolutionize golf — golf doesn't need it. We're just fixing the one part that's been stuck since the 1800s.
First batch ships to the waitlist in Autumn 2026.
See you on the course.