Platzreife and first round

Platzreife PRO prepares you for the DGV Platzreife, Germany's golf course permit, and then comes along on your first round.

Platzreife PRO is free to download. The introduction, the whole Reference tab, the checklist and the demonstration hole are open to you without a purchase, as are the first three practice sets, one mock exam, one practice round and the etiquette scenes of the first topic. Everything else you unlock once with the full version, with no subscription. If you downloaded the earlier paid version of Platzreife PRO before 30 August 2026, you already have the full version.

Who it is for

Platzreife PRO is written for people in Germany who would rather prepare in English. Everything in it follows the German exam: the format of the theory test, the assessment on the course and the Rules of Golf as the German Golf Association (DGV) applies them. Your club decides in which language it holds the exam, so it is worth asking in advance.

Learn

You learn in sets of twelve questions, each of which takes about ten minutes. The catalogue holds 170 questions written for the app on the rules, behaviour on the course, handicap and scoring, and every answer comes with a short explanation and the number of the rule it rests on. Whatever you get wrong goes into your mistakes and comes back at growing intervals until it stays with you. Once a few have collected there, you can also practise them as a set of their own.

How far along you are is shown as a number between 0 and 100. It is calculated from your answers, and the app tells you what goes into it. At 70 the mock exam opens. It runs like the real one, with thirty questions in thirty minutes and the rules section and the general section marked separately. Afterwards you see how many more mistakes you could have afforded and go through every wrong answer with its explanation.

On the course

Some things are not learned from questions. The etiquette scenes play through situations that really happen on the course, the demonstration hole takes you round a hole station by station, and the first-round checklist keeps track of what should be done before you tee off.

During the round the round assistant takes over: it shows the distance to the centre of the green, counts your strokes and gives your net par for every hole, which it explains in one sentence on the first. After each hole the scorecard shows where you made net par and where you did not, and now and then a quiet reminder about etiquette appears, never more than four times a round. In an exam round and in competition, Platzreife PRO holds back all advice that Rule 4.3 does not allow; the distance stays.

For the distance, Platzreife PRO needs to know where the greens are. Two fictional sample courses are included, and you can import your own course as a course file. How that works is explained under Support.

Look things up

Whatever you want to look up is in the Reference tab. Rules by situation walks you through 25 situations step by step, the glossary explains 60 terms, and further sections cover handicaps and the World Handicap System as well as what the Platzreife and club membership usually cost in Germany. Search finds terms even under an older name such as "water hazard", and when it finds nothing it suggests common terms to try instead.

Your data

Platzreife PRO needs no account, shows no ads and collects no data about you. Your progress stays on your device or in your iCloud Drive, and you can export it as a file at any time. The app uses your location only during a round and only on the device. The details are in the privacy policy.

• DeviceiPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later
• LanguagesEnglish, German
• Pricefree to download, full version one-time, no subscription
• Accountnot needed

Note

Platzreife PRO is an independent product and is not affiliated with the Deutscher Golf Verband e. V. (German Golf Association). The questions were written for the app and are not taken from the official question catalogue. The exam itself is held by your golf club.