Elite Golf Consulting × Foresome: Golf Was Never Meant to Be Played Alone

Here's the mistake almost every golfer makes, and I made it for years: treating this game like a solo project. Grind alone at the range. Study swing videos alone at midnight. Chase the handicap alone, round after round, like golf is a math problem you can solve in isolation.

It doesn't work. I played at San Diego State — the 5th-ranked team in the country — and the single biggest thing I took from those years wasn't a swing thought. It was this: relationships and teamwork matter more than anything else in golf. The right people pull your standards up. The right games keep you sharp. The right foursome makes the grind feel like a gift instead of a sentence.

That belief is why I can tell you today: Elite Golf Consulting is partnering with Foresome — the golf platform built by co-founder and CEO Barrett Edri. And it took about five minutes of talking to Barrett to know it was right. Growth takes time. A solid relationship can be instant.

Who is Barrett Edri — and what is Foresome?

Foresome is a golf media platform and app built on a simple, slightly radical idea: golf is the greatest connection machine ever disguised as a sport, and it should belong to everyone who plays it — even the ones who can't break 100 yet. Their tagline says it better than I can: Love the game. Anyone. Anywhere.

Barrett Edri built it the way the best things in golf get built — out of love for the people you play with. He's a husband, father, author, and entrepreneur who treats connection like it's the whole point, because it is. While most of the golf industry sells you another way to obsess over yourself, Barrett is building the thing golfers actually quit the game over losing: the people.

Who's on your Mount Rushmore foursome?

Before you read another word, stop and picture it. A perfect late afternoon. Sun low, shadows long, air still warm. The course is wide open — no group in front of you, nobody pushing behind you. Eighteen holes and nowhere else to be. And you get to carve four faces into the mountain: who is your Mount Rushmore — the perfect foursome you'd tee it up with?

Maybe it's your dad, your best friend, and Tiger in his Sunday red. Maybe it's your kid, your college roommate, and the grandfather who put a cut-down 7-iron in your hands. Maybe it's just your regular Saturday group, because honestly, you wouldn't trade them for anyone on tour.

Now notice something about your answer. It wasn't about the course. It wasn't about your swing. Nobody's Mount Rushmore is "me, alone, with a launch monitor." Your perfect round is people — it always was. That's the entire thesis of this partnership, and it's why Foresome exists: to make more of those afternoons actually happen. Text your Rushmore. Get the game on the books.

Track the bets, skins, and Stableford points — never argue the math again

You know the moment. The round was great, the company was better — and now everyone's standing in the parking lot doing forensic accounting. Who pressed on 14? Did the skin on 7 carry? How many strokes does he get on the back nine? The bet that was supposed to make the round more fun just became a twenty-minute argument.

Foresome ends that argument permanently. Set up your round, pick your games — Nassau, Skins, Stableford — and enter scores hole by hole. Handicaps are built in. The bets track themselves. The points tally themselves. Their line for it is perfect: track the bet, not the math — so your foursome can love the game and never argue the arithmetic.

Don't dismiss that as a convenience feature. The money game is one of golf's oldest traditions — it's how four strangers become four friends over eighteen holes. Every ounce of friction you remove from that tradition brings more people into it. That's not a gimmick. That's stewardship of the game.

Honest handicaps make the game worth playing for something

Here's where our two missions lock together — and where this partnership stops being a press release and starts being useful to you.

Every money game runs on one thing: valid handicaps. The moment someone's number is soft — sandbagged down or vanity'd up — the bets stop being fair, and the game stops being fun. Nobody wants to play a rigged game, and deep down, nobody wants to win one either.

So we split the job. Foresome keeps the game honest. Handicaps applied correctly, every stroke where it belongs, every payout clean. Elite Golf Consulting keeps you honest. The app tracks your rounds across the nine pillars of a great round and puts a journal behind every score, so you know your real game — not the story you tell in the grill room. When you genuinely know your game, your handicap stops being a negotiation and starts being a fact.

Honest golfers make honest games. Honest games make golf worth playing for something. So here's your move: stop doing parking-lot math. Go check out Foresome at foresome.com, round up your Rushmore, and put a real game on the books — Nassau, Skins, or Stableford, tracked from the first tee to the last putt.

Keep the class and prestige. Turn up the competition.

There's a version of "growing the game" that flattens everything that made golf special in the first place. That's not what either of us signed up for. The class of this sport — the etiquette, the handshake on the first tee, putting everything out when money's on the line — that's not gatekeeping. That's the product.

What Barrett understands, and what we built Elite Golf Consulting around, is that you can hold the door open without lowering the standard. Welcome everyone. Keep the traditions. Play for something. The prestige of golf and the fun of golf were never in conflict — they were only ever separated by bad math and soft numbers. We're fixing both.

You can't master golf alone — and you were never supposed to

I'll leave you with the real reason this partnership exists, because it's the same reason you should care.

Most golfers want to do it alone. It feels noble — just you against the course. But nobody masters golf that way. I improved fastest when I was surrounded by players better than me, because their standards became my standards and their honesty made mine easier. When you're around the right golfers and the right people, mastering the game gets easier. Not slightly easier. Categorically easier.

That's what these two apps are for, together. Foresome puts the right people around you and makes the competition fun and fair. Elite Golf Consulting makes sure every round with them actually moves you forward. Surround yourself with people who love the game, keep the numbers honest, play for something — and mastery stops being a mountain and starts being a walk with friends.

Growth takes time. This relationship was instant. Go see what Barrett and the Foresome team are building at foresome.com — and bring your foursome.

Quick answers

What is Foresome? A golf media platform and app from co-founder and CEO Barrett Edri, built to help golfers connect, compete, and love the game — anyone, anywhere. Find it at foresome.com.

What golf games does Foresome track? The classics — Nassau, Skins, and Stableford — with handicaps built in. Enter scores hole by hole; the app tracks the bet, not the math.

How do the two apps fit together? Foresome runs the game between you and your friends. Elite Golf Consulting runs the game between you and your potential — tracking your rounds across the 9 pillars and keeping the handicap you bring to the first tee honest.