Phonewood
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Your phone is the club.
Hold your iPhone like a golf grip, make a small, smooth swing and lift your thumb at the ball. Then watch your own cut-out golfer, with your face on a bobble head, swing your swing in the replay.
What kind of game is Phonewood?
A golf game for iPhone where the phone is the club. You hold it in both hands like a grip, make a small, smooth swing and lift your thumb as the club comes to the ball: the timing of that thumb is the strike. The ball flies down a bright toy course, and your paper cut-out golfer, with your own face on a bobble head made from a selfie, swings your swing in the replay. Three courses, 27 holes, and up to four players on one phone.
This one is for you if
- You want a round of golf in the kitchen, the hallway or the back garden
- You like a game where timing beats power: small, smooth swings go furthest
- You want something to pass round the family, with up to four golfers on one phone
Your phone is the club
Two hands round the bottom of the phone, a thumb on the big grip pad, and a small, smooth swing. Lift your thumb as the club comes to the ball: that’s the strike. Three practice swings set your own swing as full power, so swinging harder never adds distance.
Your face on a bobble head
Take a selfie and the phone turns it into a cartoon bobble head on a paper cut-out golfer, or pick one of eight ready-made heads. After each shot the replay plays back the swing you made, on your golfer. The photo never leaves the phone.
Golf through a giant’s house
Three courses, 27 holes: Meadowbank, a sunny parkland to learn on; the Giant’s House, where the fairway is a rug, the bunker is a sugar bowl and you putt across the dinner table; and Blowhole Bay, clifftop links in real wind.
- 27
- holes on three courses, one of them inside a giant’s house
- 4
- golfers on one phone, passing it round
- £4.99
- once, after a free first hole. No ads
Before you tap
- What’s free, and what does it cost?
- Hole 1 of Meadowbank is free as often as you like, on your own or in pass-and-play, and so is making your golfer. The Full Game is a one-off £4.99 for every hole of the three courses, every club, the Range, Closest to the Pin, pass-and-play and friends’ rounds. Moon Links is an optional £1.99 extra course for full-game owners. There are no ads and no subscription. Prices are the UK App Store’s and may differ where you are.
- How do I hold the phone?
- Like a golf grip: both hands wrapped round the bottom of the phone, the top pointing at the floor, and a thumb on the big grip pad. Use a wrist strap or a case with a lanyard if you have one. Make a small, smooth swing and lift your thumb off the screen as the club comes to the ball. That’s the strike. Only the thumb moves; both hands stay round the phone. Lift your thumb, keep your grip. The safety card is always in Settings › How to hold it · safety.
- Can I play without swinging the phone?
- Yes: Tap Swing. Pull back on the lower part of the screen for power and let go as the moving marker crosses the centre line. It’s the same strike timing as a motion swing. Choose “Play without swinging (Tap Swing)” on the safety card the first time, or switch any time in Settings › Swing with. Every hole, course and mode works with it, and VoiceOver users can pick a full, three-quarter, half or quarter swing from the Actions rotor.
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Your phone is the club.
Hole 1 is free, as often as you like. Then £4.99 once for the full game. No ads, no subscription.