THE LAGKING PLAYBOOK
Find your feel. Chase a crown. Turn practice into game night.
Twelve ways to play, from focused drills to friendly rivalries.
The full phone/tablet app is included. No subscription.
YOUR PUTTS. YOUR KIND OF COMPETITION.
Settle into a solo drill, chase a personal best, or play a round just for you.
Local pass-and-play means sharing one gate and a phone or tablet. Take turns and let the app keep score.
No playing partner? Six head-to-head games offer a computer opponent that adapts to your recent putting.
Challenge a friend to a live match. Each of you putts on your own gate, and every putt rolls on the other player’s screen, turn by turn. Seven games play live: Simulated 9, Poker, Baseball, Football, Darts: Cricket, Line Four, and Turf War.
Compare official daily attempts in Distance Challenge, Start Line, and Poker. Play one round a week in Simulated 9’s Weekly Open, or take a daily shot at King of the Hill’s monthly crown.
Asynchronous challenges let you play first and your friend reply later on their own setup. You don’t have to be online at the same time.
Online leaderboards, daily challenges, the Weekly Open, friend challenges, and live matches need an account and internet connection. Remote friends each need their own LagKing setup. The options below vary by mode.
THE FULL LINEUP
Find your feel for distance.
Pick a fixed target and groove the same distance, or choose random targets to keep yourself guessing. Set the distance range and how many putts you take before a random target changes.
See distance and start-line feedback after each putt. This is open-ended practice, with no match to finish or leaderboard score to chase. Find it in the app’s Target tab.
A round of golf. Just the putting.
Play nine holes on themed 3D courses. Keep putting until the ball drops, with anything inside three feet counting as a gimme. Choose your tees and work your way around the course.
Play solo and chase a course leaderboard, or share a gate for local play: two players compete hole by hole in match play; three to six compete on total strokes. Locally, take turns playing shots or have each player finish the hole before passing the putter. Send an asynchronous nine-hole challenge to a friend to play on their own schedule, or play them live online, each on your own gate. Each week, the Weekly Open puts everyone on the same course from the back tees: one round, and the lowest score of the week wins. Leaderboard eligibility depends on the selected tees.
Five putts. How close can you get?
Choose a distance and take five putts. Your average distance from the cup is your score, so consistent pace beats one lucky putt. Lower is better.
Beat your own best and compare distance leaderboards, play a local two-to-four-player match, or send your round to a friend to answer later. The daily challenge gives everyone the same target and one official five-putt attempt for the day, with no practice round in that challenge.
Build a streak. Keep it on line.
Strip practice back to one thing: how consistently you start the ball on line. Practice has no target distance or virtual green to manage, just a grade on every putt. PURE and SLIGHT results extend your streak. WIDE or MAJOR resets it.
Streak mode adds a cup: hole as many putts in a row as you can from 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 feet, with a leaderboard at each distance. The Daily Start Line gives everyone the same distance and one official attempt, and the day’s longest streak wins. You can also challenge a friend: post your streak, and they answer later on their own setup.
A little farther. Then a little farther.
Start at 10 feet, then make each putt roll farther than the last. The more controlled your increments, the more climbs you can fit in before 50.
The run ends when you fall short or reach 50 feet. Build your best run and see how you compare on the one ladder leaderboard.
One daily shot at a monthly crown.
Everyone plays the same five-hole course for the month. Take one putt per hole and add up your distance from the cups. The lowest total holds the crown.
You get one official attempt each day. Your best round of the month is your standing, so return to the same holes, learn their distances, and try to knock the leader off the hill. A new month brings a new course.
Better putts = more cards.
Play five holes and earn cards with your putting. Hole a putt for three cards, finish inside the inner ring for two, or the outer ring for one. The rings scale with the target distance. Your best five-card hand decides the winner.
Play locally with two to four players or face an adaptive computer opponent. Local matches draw from one shared deck. The daily challenge gives everyone the same five holes to chase the best hand of the day. You can also play a round and challenge a friend to answer asynchronously, or play a friend live online, each on your own gate.
Hits, outs, and a fielder who putts back.
Four holes are your hits: 15 feet for a single, 25 a double, 35 a triple, 45 a home run. Stop inside a hole’s ring for that hit, or miss them all and you are out. Then the fielder putts at the same hole, and finishing inside your ball turns the hit into an out.
Play three innings, three outs a side. Each hit tightens its ring once you earn it, so you have to use the whole field, and with runners on, bunts, double plays, and sacrifice flies come into play. Face the computer, a friend on the same gate, or a friend live online on their own gate.
Your putt is the play call.
Five cups are your plays, from an inside run at 9 feet to a deep pass at 45. Stop inside a cup’s ring and you gain the yards to where your ball stopped; hole it for double. The defense putts back from the same cup, and finishing inside your ball breaks up the play.
Four downs to gain ten, a touchdown is worth seven, and on fourth down you go for it, kick, or punt. Each side gets three possessions, or two in a quick game. Plays tighten as you use them, so mix them up. Face the computer, a friend on the same gate, or a friend live online on their own gate.
The putting green is a dartboard.
The numbers 15 to 20 are three-foot bands of distance from 20 to 48 feet, with the bull at 55. Stop in a band to hit its number. The straighter your start line, the bigger the hit: the center lane is a triple, the lanes beside it a double, and the rest a single.
Three putts a turn. Three marks open a number, extra marks score while an opponent still has it open, and closing all seven with the most points wins. Play with two to four players on one gate, face the computer, or play a friend live online on their own gate.
Pick your column. Putt your piece.
Seven distance bands map to seven columns on the board. Where your putt finishes determines where your piece drops. Connect four horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to win.
Play a local friend, an adaptive computer opponent, or a friend live online on their own gate. A putt outside the board’s distance range, or into a full column, uses your turn without placing a piece. Plan the move, then deliver the pace.
Claim the green, one zone at a time.
Red versus blue. Alternate ten putts each across five distance zones. Having more balls in a zone gives you control; equal counts leave it neutral. Control the most zones to win.
Face a local friend, an adaptive computer opponent, or a friend live online on their own gate. A tied match goes to a neutral sudden-death zone: if only one player lands there, they win. If both hit or both miss, try again.
Running a putting contest at a trade show, club, or fundraiser? LagKing Events turns one gate into a walk-up contest with a live leaderboard.
The LagKing gate is $199.99 with the app included. No subscription.