Golf & PGA Data Scraper — Leaderboards, Rounds & Hole-by-Hole Scores ⛳

foXLabs sports data: Golf · (UFC/MMA · Formula 1 · Cricket · Rugby — the same family)

🎉 Turn golf into clean, structured data: every tournament's full leaderboard with round-by-round scores (strokes and to-par) and, on request, hole-by-hole scores for each round. PGA, LPGA, Champions, Korn Ferry and the European (DP World) Tour. No API key, no login. Built for DFS and betting modellers, media and stats products, and AI agents.

🔍 What is the Golf Data Scraper — and when should you use it?

Give a tour and a date range and get one row per player per tournament: finishing position, total score, each round's strokes and to-par, and optionally the 18 hole scores of every round.

Use it when you need: a DFS or betting model (round form, hole-level scoring); a leaderboard widget; or historical tournament data. Use something else when you want other sports — see the rest of the foXLabs sports family.

Note: this covers scores, not proprietary shot-tracking metrics (strokes-gained is not published in the free source).

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already on the Apify MCP server? Ask for it by name: foxlabs/golf-pga-data.

Your agent can pay for its own runs — pay-per-event with agentic payments over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire, with no Apify account of its own. Billing is per delivered row, never for errors or empty results.

Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP assistant:

Use the Apify Actor `foxlabs/golf-pga-data`.
Input: `tour` = pga | lpga | champions | korn | euro; `dateFrom`/`dateTo` (YYYY-MM-DD);
`includeHoleScores` adds the 18 hole scores per round; `maxResults` caps rows.
Start with: { "tour": "pga", "dateFrom": "2024-04-11", "dateTo": "2024-04-14" }

Things you can ask your agent:

• "Give me the full leaderboard of the last PGA tournament with each player's four round scores."
• "Add the hole-by-hole scores for the leaders."
• "Which players shot under par in round 3?"

📋 Overview

The Golf Data Scraper reads ESPN's public, keyless golf API live on every run and returns deduplicated, camelCase rows. There is nothing to configure: no key, no login, no proxy to buy (Apify's free datacenter proxy is used by default).

Why teams pick this actor:

• 🧱 Five tours, one actor — PGA, LPGA, Champions, Korn Ferry, European.
• 🕳️ Hole-level scoring that leaderboard scrapers skip — every hole of every round, on request.
• 🔑 Zero setup — no API key, no login, no browser.
• ♻️ Fresh every run — reads the source live.
• 🤝 Agent-ready — MCP + x402, billed per delivered row.

✨ Features

• 🏌️ Full leaderboard — player, position, total score and status.
• 🔢 Round-by-round — strokes and to-par for each round.
• 🕳️ Hole-by-hole — the 18 hole scores (strokes and to-par) per round, with includeHoleScores.
• 🌍 Five tours — PGA, LPGA, Champions, Korn Ferry, European.
• 📦 Clean export — deduplicated camelCase rows, ready for CSV/Excel/JSON.

🎬 Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~golf-pga-data/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tour": "pga", "dateFrom": "2024-04-11", "dateTo": "2024-04-14"}'

🚀 Getting Started (3 steps)

1. Pick a tour — pga, lpga, champions, korn or euro.
2. Set the dates — dateFrom/dateTo (defaults: last 21 / next 21 days); turn on includeHoleScores for hole detail.
3. Run and export — download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the API.

📥 Input

{
  "tour": "pga",
  "dateFrom": "2024-04-11",
  "dateTo": "2024-04-14",
  "includeHoleScores": false,
  "maxResults": 0
}

Field	Type	Description
tour	string	pga (default), lpga, champions, korn, euro.
dateFrom / dateTo	string	Tournament date range (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults: last 21 / next 21 days.
includeHoleScores	boolean	Add the 18 hole scores per round (default off).
maxResults	integer	Cap on delivered rows (0 = default).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter by default — no setup needed.

📤 Output

Leaderboard row (with includeHoleScores, holes is added inside each round):

{
  "tournamentId": "401580351", "tournament": "Masters Tournament", "tour": "pga",
  "date": "2024-04-11T07:00Z", "endDate": "2024-04-14T07:00Z", "status": "Final",
  "position": 1, "player": "Scottie Scheffler", "playerId": "9478", "country": "United States",
  "totalScore": "-11",
  "rounds": [
    { "round": 1, "strokes": 66, "toPar": "-6", "holes": [{ "hole": 1, "strokes": 4, "result": "E" }, { "hole": 2, "strokes": 4, "result": "-1" }] },
    { "round": 2, "strokes": 72, "toPar": "E" }
  ],
  "playerStatus": "Final", "source": "ESPN", "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T11:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
tournament / tournamentId	string	Event name and ESPN id.
date / endDate / status	string	Tournament dates and status.
position	number	Finishing position.
player / playerId / country	string	Player identity.
totalScore	string	Total to-par (e.g. -11).
rounds	array	Per round: round, strokes, toPar, and holes (when requested).
playerStatus / amateur	string / bool	Player's status; amateur flag.

💼 Use cases

• DFS / betting model
  • Input: { "tour": "pga", "includeHoleScores": true }
  • Output: every player with round and hole scores.
  • Use: model round form, hole difficulty and scoring streaks.
• Leaderboard widget
  • Input: { "tour": "pga" }
  • Output: the live leaderboard with round scores.
• Historical analysis
  • Input: { "tour": "pga", "dateFrom": "2024-01-01", "dateTo": "2024-12-31" }
  • Output: a season of tournaments.

🔗 Integration

JavaScript (Apify client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/golf-pga-data').call({ tour: 'pga', includeHoleScores: true });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python (Apify client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("foxlabs/golf-pga-data").call(run_input={"tour": "pga", "includeHoleScores": True})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

n8n / Zapier / Make: use the Apify connector, pick this actor, map tour and the dates, then route the dataset into your sheet, database or webhook.

📊 Pricing

Pay per result (PPE). You are billed only for delivered leaderboard rows, never for errors or empty runs. Current prices are on the Pricing tab.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key or a login to scrape golf data?

No. You supply nothing: pick a tour and a date range and run. There is no golf API key to obtain, no account to connect and no browser to configure. The actor reads ESPN's public golf API directly through Apify's free datacenter proxy.

Which tours and tournaments does it cover?

Five tours: the PGA Tour, LPGA, PGA Tour Champions, Korn Ferry Tour and the European (DP World) Tour. For each tour it returns every tournament whose dates fall in your range, with the full field — not just the top of the leaderboard.

What does each leaderboard row contain?

One row per player per tournament: finishing position, total score to par, status (e.g. Final, cut, WD), and a rounds array giving each round's strokes and to-par. With includeHoleScores on, every round also carries its 18 hole scores.

How do I get hole-by-hole scores?

Turn on includeHoleScores. Each round then carries its 18 hole scores, each with the strokes taken and the result relative to par (E for par, -1 for a birdie, +1 for a bogey, and so on).

Do you have strokes-gained or shot-tracking data?

No. The free source publishes scores at the round and hole level, not proprietary shot-tracking metrics such as strokes-gained, driving distance or putts-gained, which come from the tours' own ShotLink-style systems. If a vendor claims free strokes-gained, check the source.

How current is the data during a tournament?

Every run reads ESPN live, so positions and round scores update through the tournament as ESPN posts them. Mid-round, a player's current round shows the holes played so far; completed rounds are final.

How is this different from a generic leaderboard scraper?

A generic scraper stops at position and total score. This actor adds the layer golf modellers and DFS players use: each round's strokes and to-par, and, on request, the full hole-by-hole card for every player in the field.

Can I pull a whole season or just one tournament?

Both. A narrow dateFrom/dateTo returns a single event; a wide range (for example a full calendar year) returns every tournament of the season on that tour.

How are cuts, withdrawals and ties handled?

The playerStatus field reflects what ESPN shows — made cut, missed cut, withdrawn or disqualified — and position reflects ties as ESPN ranks them. Amateurs are flagged with amateur: true.

Can I export to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Apify console, or pull it straight from the Apify API or the dataset's .json endpoint for a pipeline or an AI agent.

🐛 Troubleshooting

• No tournaments found — widen dateFrom/dateTo; golf has off-season weeks with no events.
• A round has no holes — holes appear only with includeHoleScores, and only for rounds that have been played.
• Fewer rows than maxResults — maxResults is a cap, not a target.

⚠️ Trademark

Independent, third-party tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the PGA Tour, LPGA, the European Tour or ESPN. All marks belong to their owners and are used for identification only.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape this data?

This actor reads publicly available, non-personal sports data (tournament scores and standings) that is already published for public viewing. It collects no private or personal data and requires no login. You are responsible for using the output in line with applicable laws and the terms of the sources. When in doubt, consult a lawyer.

🤝 Support & contact

• 🌐 Website: data.foxlabs.com.tr
• 📧 Email: info@foxlabs.com.tr
• 🧰 More clean data actors: Fox Labs on Apify

Changelog

0.2 — 2026-11-02

• Round scores are now structured (rounds with round, strokes, toPar), and a new includeHoleScores option adds the 18 hole scores (strokes and to-par) for each round.

0.1 — 2026-11-02

• Initial release: leaderboards with flat round scores across five tours from ESPN's keyless API.