Change log

Change log

The public record — when the odds move, it's written here.

DogLeg's whole promise is that the odds never lie, which only means something if you can see when they moved. Every change to how a shot resolves is logged as an odds change; features and fixes are listed too.

• 2026-08-19Fix

  The map stopped walking your ball backwards

  On holes with a long bunker running down the side — a waste bunker, the Church Pews — the map drew your ball at the middle of the sand no matter where along it you actually were. Catch the front end with 40 yards left and the ball appeared halfway back down the hole, behind the drive that put it there, while the yardage beside it counted down correctly. Nothing about the shot itself was wrong: the lie you were in, the yardage you had left and the odds you were offered were all the real ones. It was the picture that lied, which is worst in a replay, where you watch the ball travel the wrong way. A ball in a long bunker now sits at its own yardage, on the side it is really on.

• 2026-08-19New

  Somebody else can be called Jacob too

  Clubhouse names used to be one to a customer, which sounds fair until you meet it: the name it most often refused you was your own. Clear your browser, pick up a new phone, reinstall — this game has no password, so that device arrives as a stranger, and typing the name you have always played under got you "that name is taken" by your own old scorecard, with no way round it. Names are now shared. Take the one you want even if somebody already answers to it; the boards have always sorted players out by more than what they are called. The one exception is a name held by a player who has added an email address for cross-device sync — that is a claim we can actually honour, so we reserve it for them. If you would like your name held that way, add an email in the clubhouse panel and it is yours.

• 2026-08-14Odds changed

  Safe no longer aims at the middle of a lake

  On five holes with a long forced carry off the tee, the safe line was drawn mostly onto water — most of the landing band sat in the hazard, while the odds beside it still read like a fairway. Safe now either takes enough club to clear the carry, where your bag reaches the far side, or stops short of it, where it does not. Because the line moved to ground you can actually hold, the numbers beside it are now the odds for the shot you are being shown. Two things deliberately did not change: where safe only clips the edge of a hazard, that is a real risk you are choosing and it stays priced that way; and the bolder two lines are untouched, because their odds always did tell you how wet they were.

• 2026-08-14New

  Sign your scorecard before you tee off

  Golfers sign their card, so now you do too. Tap Tee off without a clubhouse name and you get the card for the course you are about to play — holes, pars and a line for your name. Sign it and you go straight to the tee. It is one line, once: the name sticks to the identity your dice were already salted for, so nothing about the round changes, and every board, record and trophy you win from then on has somebody standing behind it. Names are first come, first served. If we cannot reach the clubhouse to check yours, you tee off anyway — a lost signal has never stopped a round of DogLeg and it does not start now.

• 2026-08-14New

  A badge for the rounds that beat you up

  There is a new hidden achievement waiting in Awards, and you earn it by having a bad day: finish a full round with more bogeys or worse than pars or better and it turns up on your shelf. That takes a card where the damage outnumbers everything that held — some rounds are just for the résumé. It counts every time you manage it.

• 2026-08-12New

  Claim the hole in one you just made

  A hole in one or an albatross played without a clubhouse name used to go in the books under nobody — no name on the card, no line on any board, and no way to fix it later. Now the moment plays out exactly as it always has, and when you tap on, you get one card asking if you want to put your name on it. You can claim a clubhouse name right there, mid-round, without waiting for the scorecard — the name lands on the identity you were already playing under, so the round in your hands keeps the dice it was dealt. Tap "not now" and nothing changes.

• 2026-08-10Fix

  The course list remembers your sort and filters

  Unlimited play reset its sort and filters every time you left, so a curated view had to be rebuilt on every visit. Your last configuration now sticks — the season/all-time toggle, every filter, favorites, and the sort — and it comes back clearly marked, with a one-tap reset. If a remembered view ever matches nothing (say a season rollover reopened the records an old filter was hunting), the list says the filters are why, not that your courses are gone.

• 2026-08-10New

  A new address: playdogleg.com

  The game moved to playdogleg.com — shorter, and easier to pass on. Share text and replay links point there from now on. An old bookmark still works and brings your clubhouse with it: your name, streak, records and saved rounds all come across on the first visit. If you had added an email for cross-device sync, that one thing cannot follow you between two addresses — sign in once more and this device is synced exactly as it was.

• 2026-08-10New

  Find your next record

  Unlimited play’s course list learned to hunt: filter by difficulty, by what you’ve played, by open or beatable records — season or all-time, your pick — star your target courses, and sort the whole board by what’s winnable. Fifty courses, one shortlist.

• 2026-08-09New

  Challenge links: beat this round

  Finish an unlimited round and throw it down as a challenge. Whoever taps the link plays the same course against your actual round — one attempt, their own luck, ties don't take it. Beat a challenge and you get to send the revenge link. Challenge rounds are real rounds: course and season records are live the whole way. Settle it in the group chat.

• 2026-08-09New

  The wall keeps score of itself

  The course list now says how many course records were set in the past week — and how many of those fell in daily play, crown and all. A quiet week says nothing.

• 2026-08-09New

  The hunt is on

  The Teebox now tells you how many season records are within reach — wide open boards and beatable numbers both — and one tap drops you on the course list sorted by what’s winnable. Go take one.

• 2026-08-07Odds changed

  You now end up in the bunker — and the lake — you actually found

  When an approach found trouble, the game picked which bunker or lake off a list that treated every one in range as equally likely, so one eighty yards short of the green came up about as often as the one beside it. Then it ignored that pick: sand always dropped you greenside, which is why a bunker shot sometimes drew your ball on open grass beside the green, and a lateral water penalty always dropped you a fixed distance out, which could hand you a free forty yards. Now the odds weight hazards by how likely that miss really is, and you finish where you actually went in. Greenside sand is still a splash; sand out in the fairway leaves you a full shot, and a water drop goes back to the water rather than up the hole. Twenty-two courses moved a point of difficulty, most of them down.

• 2026-08-03Fix

  Daily rounds now count for course records

  They always should have. Post a daily that beats the best score ever shot on that course and the record is yours — season and all-time both. We made it right: past daily rounds have been counted back in. Win a CR during a daily round and your score gets a crown in unlimited play.

• 2026-08-01Odds changed

  Real greens were being measured at half their size

  Every course drawn from real-world maps had its greens come out about half as deep as they really are. That put the front edge too close to the pin, so sand guarding the front of a green was not always counted as guarding it, and those bunkers read as slightly less dangerous than they are. All 199 holes are re-measured against the real green. No course changed its difficulty rating.

• 2026-07-29New

  Season records are worth defending too

  Losing a season record now triggers the rivalry card on the teebox. Racing a record? Toggle between ghost balls in Unlimited Play to pace yourself with your actual target. Happy hunting.

• 2026-07-27New

  Achievements

  The Clubhouse grows an Awards tab: named ranks for every pursuit — birdies, streaks, records, rounds — plus one-off badges, a few of them hidden until you stumble into them. Your whole history counts from day one: anything you’d already earned is waiting on the shelf.

• 2026-07-27Fix

  No more trees on treeless courses

  Drive it somewhere nobody mapped and the game used to put you "in the trees" — even on a links with not a tree on it, and it drew your ball sitting on the fairway while it said so. Now each course names its own junk, and the ball is drawn where you actually are.

• 2026-07-26Design

  Welcome to DogLeg 2.0

  One week after launch, we’ve stepped up our design game: a full rebadge of the menus and branding, a post-round wrap screen that leads with your score, your share card, and a proper leaderboard — plus small tweaks under the hood to make your card a little sexier when it hits the group chat. The golf is untouched — keep on swingin’.

• 2026-07-25Odds changed

  A par 3 you can bail out on

  Some short holes now dogleg around their own trouble: safe and normal lay up short of it, and only aggressive goes at the flag. A new shape of hole rather than a new course.

• 2026-07-24Odds changed

  Not all rough is rough

  Three grades of it now, and the deep stuff genuinely costs you — harder to advance, harder to save par. The map always shows which you are in.

• 2026-07-24Fix

  A caddy chip could report water behind you

  The "water crosses at N yards" note no longer counts a hazard you have already flown.

• 2026-07-23Odds changed

  Bunkers by the green now carry their own risk

  Greenside sand is weighted separately from fairway sand, so a tucked pin behind a trap reads as the danger it is.

• 2026-07-23New

  The caddy's read

  The hole notes under the map now scroll instead of truncating, so nothing about the hole in front of you is hidden.

• 2026-07-22New

  Seasons

  Course records now reset every quarter, with the all-time board kept alongside. Hold a record at the horn and it goes in the books.

• 2026-07-22New

  Race the ghost

  In unlimited play you can chase the record holder's actual round — a pace race against the real card that set the record.

• 2026-07-22New

  Par 3 courses

  Short courses added to unlimited play, for when you have a few minutes instead of a few more.

• 2026-07-22New

  Handicaps follow the real rules

  How your handicap is figured now matches the 2024 world handicap rules for par 3 and short rounds. This changed the number some players see.

• 2026-07-22New

  You get told when a new version is live

  Every score you post is re-played by the referee on the same engine version you played on. If your tab is running an old one, the game now says so before you tee off instead of rejecting the card afterwards.

• 2026-07-21New

  Play Ratings

  Every course carries a 1–10 rating for how hard it plays, worked out by simulating rounds rather than by opinion.

• 2026-07-21New

  The Clubhouse

  Lifetime stats, a handicap, a trophy shelf for aces and albatrosses, scorecards for every round, and a nudge when somebody takes one of your course records.

• 2026-07-20Odds changed

  Fortunes

  Aces and albatrosses can now strike out of pure luck, at real published odds — and posting dailies under a clubhouse name quietly improves them.

• 2026-07-20Odds changed

  Your own bounces

  Every player now gets their own luck on the daily. Two people playing the same course see the same conditions and the same odds — but not the same bounces.

• 2026-07-20New

  Replays

  Any round can be watched back from a share link, shot by shot.

• 2026-07-19New

  Leaderboards and course records

  Daily boards and per-course records, every submission validated by re-playing the round on the server. No card posts without surviving that check.

• 2026-07-18New

  DogLeg opens for play

  One course a day, 18 holes, every decision priced in real odds.