Fore app makes every golf round you play into a tournament with friends

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 10, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Brothers Shawn and Chris Busteed want to take the tradition-bound game of golf into the 21st century with their new social golf app, Fore.

The New York-based company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for development of its social golf platform. When finished, the mobile app will allow players to track scores, create live social tournaments, and earn rewards from local courses.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.